Oracle Explorer Notices and Changes

This document provides information about important notices that apply to Oracle Explorer 6.5. This document also provides information about the changes made, including a description of the new features, a description of the modified features, and a list of the defects and requests for enhancement (RFEs) fixed in Oracle Explorer 6.5.

• Oracle Explorer Notices

• Oracle Explorer Changes

Oracle Explorer includes some third-party redistributable software. Please read the third-party license readme to learn about the terms and conditions under which this software is included and is available for use.

For installation and download information, see Chapter 1, Oracle Explorer How-To’s (FTP, NFS, Installation, Upgrade), in Oracle Explorer User’s Guide.

For questions about Oracle Explorer, contact the explorer@sun.com alias.

Oracle Explorer Notices

The following notices apply to Oracle Explorer 6.5:

• Solaris 8 and 9 Operating System (Solaris OS) patch requirements. On Sun Fire 15K platforms, you must apply the following patches to run the fru script:

  • Solaris 8 OS, at least patch 110460-23 or 108528-29

  • Solaris 9 OS, at least patch 112959-01

• Oracle Explorer and shared storage: Running Oracle Explorer and RAID Manager (RM) diagnostic commands simultaneously can cause controllers to go offline. Furthermore, running Oracle Explorer, healthck, drivutil, or other diagnostic commands simultaneously on host servers that share Oracle StorEdge A1000, A3x00, or A3500FC storage devices can cause data corruption.

  You can collect information from shared disk storage without causing a problem by running Oracle Explorer from only one server host. Alternatively, you can run Oracle Explorer from more than one host server as long as you run Oracle Explorer from each host server at staggered times.

  To configure Oracle Explorer data collection from multiple host servers at staggered times, run the following command on each server and then, when prompted, enter different values for the time when Oracle Explorer should run:

  explorer -g

  A third option is to not include Oracle Explorer storage modules when you run Oracle Explorer on servers that share disks. To exclude storage modules from one of the host servers, run Oracle Explorer with the -w command-line option in one of the following ways:

  • For sh or ksh:

    -w !storage

  • For csh or bash:

    -w \!storage

• Use of SSH with the Oracle Explorer scextended module. Before you can collect information from a Sun Fire midframe system controller (SC), you must manually accept the SSH host key from the SC. To accept the SSH host key, use SSH to log in to the SC (as superuser) from the system that is collecting data.

• Space characters in passwords. Any space characters are supported in interactive mode for most modules collecting data from external systems (exceptions: ipmiextended, ilomextended). For automated collection using *input.txt files, space characters can be used in the middle of passwords for most modules (exceptions: sanextended, b1600extended, b1600switch). Leading/trailing spaces in passwords are not supported in any *input.txt files.

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Oracle Explorer Changes

The following sections describe the changes made in Oracle Explorer 6.5:

• New Features

• Modified Features

• Defect and RFE Fix List

New Features

The following are some of the new features available in Oracle Explorer 6.5:

• Explorer now collects configuration file for patching non-global zones in parallel. (6945758)

• Explorer now collects zone information without truncating non-global zone names beyond eight characters. (6953907)

• Explorer now supports data collection for Sun StorageTek SAS RAID internal HBA (aka Couger). (6941742)

• Explorer now collects -S and -l -g options for raidctl. (6933592)

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Modified Features

The following is the main modified feature available in Oracle Explorer 6.5:

• Explorer now collects storage manager data (prometheus and cougar) under RAIDmanager instead of prometheus module. (6867385)

• Explorer has stopped collection data for EOL'd modules CST and NetConnect. (6615715)

• Explorer has introduced an -sr option for service request number to deprecate the -C/-case options. (6954861)

• Explorer has stopped collecting junk directories for VxVM module. (6942310)

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Defect and RFE Fix List

The following defects and RFEs are fixed in the Oracle Explorer 6.5 release.

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