Known Problems With the Sun Management Center GUI

This section describes known problems with the Sun Cluster 3.0 module of the Sun Management Center GUI.

Certain Types of Ultra Servers are Not Recognized by Sun Management Center

Symptoms

• A blue or yellow folder icon appears in the Sun Management Center window to represent the cluster node under its domain instead of the expected machine icon.

• The Load Modules menu choice is grayed out when the node is shown in the Details Window.

Confirmation of Problem/Start of Workaround

1. Close the Details Window.

2. From the Sun Management Center Window, choose File->Console Messages.

3. Double-click the folder icon representing the unrecognized cluster node.

4. Look in the console messages window for a line reading ...family definition file missing for...

Workaround

1. On the Sun Management Center server, change to the directory holding family files.

   # cd /opt/SUNWsymon/classes/base/console/cfg

2. Create a symbolic link to the closest available family-j.x file.

   For example, if the missing file line read ...missing for sun4u-Sun-Ultra-450-family-j.x..., create a link from sun4u-Sun-Enterprise-450-family-j.x to sun4u-Sun-Ultra-450-family-j.x.

   # ln -s sun4u-Sun-Enterprise-450-family-j.x sun4u-Sun-Ultra-450-family-j.x

3. Exit the console, and restart it.

Alternate Method for Determining Names to Symbolic Link

1. Double-click the unrecognized cluster node to bring up its Details Window.

2. Click the Info tab.

3. Search for the Entity Family entry in the Properties table.

   The value will probably be truncated, so let the mouse pointer linger over the value field. The complete name (for example, sun4u-Sun-Ultra-450) appears in the tooltip.

4. Append -family-j.x to determine the link name to create.