Sun on Al's Ramblings

Solaris 11 Express upgrade to Solaris 11/11

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 +0000

Solaris 11/11 has been out for some time I’ve been slow to move. Mostly the Solaris 11 express I run know works well and fits my needs so I have not need to upgrade. However I’m working on some side project and some software is going to need complied, that and I figured I need to keep my hand in so best move up to the current release.

So should be pretty straight forward:

How to configure iLOM ssh key for SUN T-series

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Note if you do not have at least Version 3.0.6.1.e r49743 firmware then you will run into this bug
6823488 Cannot add an SSH key for automatic password authentication.

> ssh root@ilom
Password:
Waiting for daemons to initialize...

Daemons ready

Sun(TM) Integrated Lights Out Manager

Version 3.0.6.1.e r49743

Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.

-> cd /SP/users/admin/ssh/keys/1
/SP/users/admin/ssh/keys/1

-> set load_uri=http://192.168.0.1/sshkey.pub
Load successful.

How to configure ssh public key for XSCF

Wed, 27 Oct 2010 00:00:00 +0000

XSCF> showssh -c pubkey -u admin XSCF> setssh -c addpubkey -u admin Please input a public key: ssh-rsaAAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAn5DZLAtDtan37waaAPkhU9b40q0CP5HCtqULaI+V0YU/iDpxeu0/RmFRgYSXdbniAr9wBAWn+vOUmwmyZJoIwgqCN88VJoa+U9g34B2WSMsBqIYleMsvQiBStnnkZgNY/OmDrmq1VU10H8QMw0kCmIQ3Nss7CmR0/E/9tJ6+b6E=

looks like you need a Control D here

XSCF> showssh -c pubkey -u unixadmin Public key: 1 ssh-rsa AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAIEAn5DZLAtDtan37waaAPkhU9b40q0CP5HCtqULaI+V0YU/iDpxeu0/RmFRgYSXdbniAr9wBAWn+vOUmwmyZJoIwgqCN88VJoa+U9g34B2WSMsBqIYleMsvQiBStnnkZgNY/OmDrmq1VU10H8QMw0kCmIQ3Nss7CmR0/E/9tJ6+b6E=

Installing OpenSolaris on X2200 from USB drive

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:00 +0000

I recently aquired an X2200 with no optical drive, and having had a few questions from people about USB media for OpenSolaris , where my standard answer was to download the USB image, I decided it was time I should eat my own dog food as they say and take this USB stuff out for a test drive.

What you will need: A USB key. I used an el cheap 1GB stick I had lying about.An OpenSolaris USB image I used build 127 from genunix. Of course you can role your own from the iso. Some way of getting the USB image on to the USB stick. For me this would be my existing OpenSolaris desktop machine.A x86 machine capable of booting from a USB device. I my case this was a SUN a dual CPU quad core X2200Assuming you have the USB stick and downloaded the image I won’t bore you with the details on why you can’t just copy the image to the stick. Just know you can’t.