Sun SPARC Enterprise M8000 Server
 
Sun SPARC Enterprise M4000 Server
 
Sun SPARC Enterprise M3000 Server
 
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000-32 Server
 
Sun SPARC Enterprise M5000 Server
 
Sun SPARC Enterprise M9000-64 Server
 

PLA-Support>Sun Systems>SPARC>Enterprise>SN-SPARC: Mx000
 
_Old GCS Categories>Sun Microsystems>Servers>OPL Servers
 

Applies to:

Goal

Many customers in the field require only minimal Solaris[TM] installation for Sun SPARC[R] Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers.
This document provides detailed information on required Solaris packages needed in order to manage the Solaris domains via Service Processor Software (XSCF).

Solution

This document provides details on what packages are needed or required to take full advantage of features available on SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers platform.

Solaris 10 

Customers that choose "Core Solaris Installation" will only have minimum packages installed for the domain running Solaris. 
Often, this is sufficient for the tasks that customers need. 
However, certain required platform features are not enabled in the minimal Solaris installation. 
These features are platform specific and available only if domain running Solaris can communicate with Service Processor Software (XSCF). 
FMA reporting and diagnostics are required on the SPARC Enterprise M3000/M4000/M5000/M8000/M9000 Servers.


Solaris with "Core Solaris Installation" will not have the following features.

• SSH (ssh communication with Service Processor Software XSCF)
• NTP (Network Time Protocol)
• Logarchiving  (syslog/console message archival on the XSCF)
• DR  (Dynamic Reconfiguration)
• FMA reporting (FMA errors captured on the Service Processor XSCF)

As each of the following features utilizes the DSCP interface, the packages that provide for the DSCP interface must be installed first:

The following are mandatory packages for FMA diagnostics

• SUNWCdscp cluster packages :
• SUNWdscpr
• SUNWdscpu
• SUNWdcsr
• SUNWdcsu

Note : SUNWdscpr and SUNWdscpu belong to the Core distribution (SUNWCreq Metacluster); as a consequence, they will be installed during the fresh installation of Solaris on an OPL domain. This may not be the case when installing the domain using a flash archive from a different system.

To implement the following features

• SSH
• NTP
• Logarchiving

please add the following:

The following are mandatory packages for FMA diagnostics

SUNWCsppp Metaclusters (Packages to support Solaris PPP) including the following packages:

• SUNWpppd
• SUNWpppdr
• SUNWpppdt
• SUNWpppdu
• SUNWpppg

To implement the following features

• DR
• FMA reporting

please add PPP packages from above plus the following secure key management packages.

The following are mandatory packages for FMA diagnostics

• SUNWsckmr
• SUNWsckmu

Solaris 11 

Oracle Solaris 11 installation tools and package formats are different from the previous Solaris 10 and earlier releases.

The Solaris 10 and below installation metaclusters (from "core" SUNWCreq to "entire distribution + OEM support" SUNWCxall) have been replaced in Oracle Solaris 11 by IPS package installation groups that represent a larger server environment, desktop environments, an AI client environment, etc.

In order to verify which IPS package group is required to implement the Mx000 functionality, you may follow the steps outlined below:

1) search the corresponding IPS package in S11

Instead, the following legacy packages are not found by the "pkg search" directly:

SUNWdscpr
SUNWdscpu

Then, looking for drivers or libraries that were installed with SUNWdscpr/u on a Solaris 10 based Mx000 platform:

it is possible to check which Solaris 11 package does include them:

2) check which group does include the relevant packages

So Mx000 servers will need solaris-large-server IPS package group to have the full feature set.

Please check the following Docs for further references about S11 installation info and package system:
Oracle Solaris 11 Installation FAQ (Doc ID 1401790.1)

Internal Comments
This applies to M3000, M4000, M5000, M8000, M9000 platforms.
All the features require domain/SP communication are via DSCP (Domain/SP Communication Protocol) on OPL. DSCP builds on PPP technology and add Secure Key management for DR and FMA with ETM.

Keywords: OPL, DSCP, DR, ETM, FMA, SSH

Previously Published As 90813

This solution has no attachment