-> reset /SP
Are you sure you want to reset /SP (y/n)? y
Performing hard reset on /SP failed
reset: No such inventory

or when you try to reset the ILOM password, you may get the error “Set: No such object value”
To resolve the problem, you can actually logon to the ILOM as the user “sunservice” with the password of the ILOM root user and then reboot the ILOM (equivalne to “reset /SP”) with the command “reboot” as follows. Clearly as you can see from this warning SUN doesn’t recommend it so use it at your own risk:

login as: sunservice
Using keyboard-interactive authentication.
Password:

Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.

WARNING: The “sunservice” account is provided solely to allow
Sun Services to perform diagnosis and recovery tasks. Customer use of
the “sunservice” account may interfere with the correct operation of
ILOM and is not supported other than to perform recovery procedures as
documented by Sun Microsystems. Normal ILOM operations should always be
performed using the root account. Further usage of the “sunservice”
account implies your agreement with these terms.
[(flash)root@SERV-ILOM:~]# reboot
/sbin/reboot

Run the command

# ipmitool fru | grep “Product Serial”

where “FRU” is a Field Replaceable Unit. The problem here is it’s going to output too many serial numbers to confuse. The one we are interested is a 10 digit alpha-numeric number.

However, extending the command as

# ipmitool fru print |egrep “Mainboard|/SYS” | awk ‘{print $7}’
91)

Would give you the ID number of the “/SYS” or “Mainboard” (91 here) which mostly has the serial number of the system. We then run the “ipmitool” as follows with that ID number to find the system serial number.

# ipmitool fru print 91 |grep “Product Serial” | awk ‘{print $4}’

where “91″ was the ID number.

FATAL: system is not bootable, boot command is disabled

Don’t panic!!!

This error indicates that interrupted the boot process prematurely, most likely when the memory checks were run with “STOP + A” or a break from console.

To resolve this problem simply Power OFF and power ON the system. Alternatively, you can perform a “reset-all” from the OK prompt.

This should help!

Display Serial Number

To simply display the serial number run sneep with no arguements

# sneep
0011223344

To display the serial number and its associated tag in the EEPROM and infact all stored Tag/Value pairs.

# sneep -T
“ChassisSerialNumber”   “0011223344″

Store Information in EEPROM

To store information into the EEPROM like the asset tag use the “-t” to set the tag name and the “-s” option to set its value as below:

# sneep -t “AssetTag” -s 001234

To display all information

# sneep -T
“AssetTag”  “001234″
“ChassisSerialNumber”   “0011223344″

Install Sneep

Sneep is not installed by default in Solaris. Click here to download the latest version of Sneep utility. (requires a sunsolve account)

Install as follows from the directory where the sneep package (SUNWsneep) is downloaded to:

# uncompress SUNWsneep2.6.tar.Z
# tar -xvf SUNWsneep2.6.tar
# pkgadd -d . SUNWsneep

To confirm the installation

# pkginfo -l SUNWsneep
PKGINST:  SUNWsneep
NAME:  Serial Number in EEPROM
CATEGORY:  service
ARCH:  sparc,i386
VERSION:  2.6
BASEDIR:  /opt/SUNWsneep
VENDOR:  Sun Microsystems, Inc.
DESC:  Persistent, software-accesible storage of Chassis Serial Number (CSN) across OS and application changes. Works on all Sun platforms. Can also store and retrieve arbitrary other values in EEPROM.
PSTAMP:  cvs-sustain-build20080930010154
INSTDATE:  Jun 04 2009 17:22
HOTLINE:  Support provided through normal Sun support channels
EMAIL:  sneep-support@sun.com
STATUS:  completely installed
FILES:       25 installed pathnames
5 directories
3 executables
1315 blocks used (approx)

If you didn’t accept to create a link file in /usr/sbin during the pkgadd, add a symbolic link as follows;

# ln -s /opt/SUNWsneep/bin/sneep .

To check the man page

# man -M /opt/SUNWsneep/man  sneep

For command help

# sneep -h

Save and retrieve Chassis Serial Number  ( CSN ) using EEPROM.

usage:

sneep [-aFhlTvVx] [-t tag] [-s setting ] [-P ds1:ds2...] \
[-d default] [-o separator]
setcsn -c serialnumber
showplatform -p csn

-h              This help message
For detailed information, consult the man page. Try
man -M /opt/SUNWsneep/man  sneep

Talking about the WWN names, there are also

World Wide port Name (WWpN), a WWN assigned to a port on a Fabric which is what you would be looking for most of the time.

World Wide node Name (WWnN), a WWN assigned to a node/device on a Fibre Channel fabric.

To find the WWN numbers of your HBA card in Sun Solaris, you can use one the following procedures

Using fcinfo (Solaris 10 only)

This is probably the easiest way to find the WWN numbers on your HBA card. Here you can see the HBA Port WWN (WWpN) and the Node WWN (WWnN) of the two ports on the installed Qlogic HAB card.

This is also useful in finding the Model number, Firmwar version FCode, supported and current speeds and the port status of the HBA card/port.

root@ sunserver:/root# fcinfo hba-port | grep WWN
HBA Port WWN: 2100001b32xxxxxx
Node WWN: 2000001b32xxxxxx
HBA Port WWN: 2101001b32yyyyyy
Node WWN: 2001001b32yyyyyy

For detailed info including Make & model number, Firmware, Fcode and current status and supported/current speeds then

root@ sunserver:/root# fcinfo hba-port
HBA Port WWN: 2100001b32xxxxxx
OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c2
Manufacturer: QLogic Corp.
Model: 375-3356-02
Firmware Version: 4.04.01
FCode/BIOS Version:  BIOS: 1.24; fcode: 1.24; EFI: 1.8;
Type: N-port
State: online
Supported Speeds: 1Gb 2Gb 4Gb
Current Speed: 4Gb
Node WWN: 2000001b32xxxxxx
HBA Port WWN: 2101001b32yyyyyy
OS Device Name: /dev/cfg/c3
Manufacturer: QLogic Corp.
Model: 375-3356-02
Firmware Version: 4.04.01
FCode/BIOS Version:  BIOS: 1.24; fcode: 1.24; EFI: 1.8;
Type: unknown
State: offline
Supported Speeds: 1Gb 2Gb 4Gb
Current Speed: not established
Node WWN: 2001001b32yyyyyy

Using scli

root@ sunserver:/root# scli -i | egrep “Node Name|Port Name”
Node Name                  : 20-00-00-1B-32-XX-XX-XX
Port Name                  : 21-00-00-1B-32-XX-XX-XX
Node Name                  : 20-01-00-1B-32-YY-YY-YY
Port Name                  : 21-01-00-1B-32-YY-YY-YY

For more detailed info on the HBA Cards run as follows: Similar to fcinfo but also provides Model Name and serial number.

root@ sunserver:/root# scli -i
——————————————————————————
Host Name                  : sunserver
HBA Model                  : QLE2462
HBA Alias                  :
Port                       : 1
Port Alias                 :
Node Name                  : 20-00-00-1B-32-XX-XX-XX
Port Name                  : 21-00-00-1B-32-XX-XX-XX
Port ID                    : 11-22-33
Serial Number              : AAAAAAA-bbbbbbbbbb
Driver Version             : qlc-20080514-2.28
FCode Version              : 1.24
Firmware Version           : 4.04.01
HBA Instance               : 2
OS Instance                : 2
HBA ID                     : 2-QLE2462
OptionROM BIOS Version     : 1.24
OptionROM FCode Version    : 1.24
OptionROM EFI Version      : 1.08
OptionROM Firmware Version : 4.00.26
Actual Connection Mode     : Point to Point
Actual Data Rate           : 2 Gbps
PortType (Topology)        : NPort
Total Number of Devices    : 2
HBA Status                 : Online
——————————————————————————
Host Name                  : sunserver
HBA Model                  : QLE2462
HBA Alias                  :
Port                       : 2
Port Alias                 :
Node Name                  : 20-01-00-1B-32-YY-YY-YY
Port Name                  : 21-01-00-1B-32-YY-YY-YY
Port ID                    : 00-00-00
Serial Number              : AAAAAAA-bbbbbbbbbb
Driver Version             : qlc-20080514-2.28
FCode Version              : 1.24
Firmware Version           : 4.04.01
HBA Instance               : 3
OS Instance                : 3
HBA ID                     : 3-QLE2462
OptionROM BIOS Version     : 1.24
OptionROM FCode Version    : 1.24
OptionROM EFI Version      : 1.08
OptionROM Firmware Version : 4.00.26
Actual Connection Mode     : Unknown
Actual Data Rate           : Unknown
PortType (Topology)        : Unidentified
Total Number of Devices    : 0
HBA Status                 : Loop down

Using prtconf

root@ sunserver:/root# prtconf -vp | grep -i wwn
port-wwn:  2100001b.32xxxxxx
node-wwn:  2000001b.32xxxxxx
port-wwn:  2101001b.32yyyyyy
node-wwn:  2001001b.32yyyyyy

Using prtpicl

root@ sunserver:/root# prtpicl -v | grep wwn
:node-wwn  20  00  00  1b  32  xx  xx  xx
:port-wwn  21  00  00  1b  32  xx  xx  xx
:node-wwn  20  01  00  1b  32  yy  yy  yy
:port-wwn  21  01  00  1b  32  yy  yy  yy

Using luxadm

Run the following command to obtain the physical path to the HBA Ports

root@ sunserver:/root$ luxadm -e port
/devices/pci@400/pci@0/pci@9/SUNW,qlc@0/fp@0,0:devctl              CONNECTED
/devices/pci@400/pci@0/pci@9/SUNW,qlc@0,1/fp@0,0:devctl            NOT CONNECTED

With the physical path obtained from the above command, we can trace the WWN numbers as follows. here I use the physical path to the one that is connected:

root@ sunserver:/root$ luxadm -e dump_map /devices/pci@400/pci@0/pci@9/SUNW,qlc@0/fp@0,0:devctl
Pos  Port_ID Hard_Addr Port WWN         Node WWN         Type
0    123456  0         1111111111111111 2222222222222222 0×0  (Disk device)
1    789123  0         1111111111111111 2222222222222222 0×0  (Disk device)
2    453789  0         2100001b32xxxxxx 2000001b32xxxxxx 0x1f (Unknown Type,Host Bus Adapter)

Hope this helps. If you know of any more way then please feel free to post it to the comments and I shall amend it to the article.

Sun Solaris has the psradm utility which allows enabling or disabling a Processor on the system. The psradm utility changes the operational status of processors. The legal states for the processor are on-line, offline, spare, Faulted, and no-intr. An online processor processes LWPs (lightweight  processes) and can be interrupted by I/O devices in the system.

To enable or disable a processor on the system we need to know the Processor ID. This can be found using the psrinfo utility as follows:

sunsolaris# psrinfo
0       on-line   since 05/09/2008 19:41:32

where 0 is the processor ID.

To know the path of the psradm command

sunsolaris# which psradm
/usr/sbin/psradm

To disable a processor

sunsolaris# psradm -f 0

where ’0′ is the processor ID and ‘-f’ indicates the processor is taken offline (disable)

To enable a processor

sunsolaris# psradm -n 0

where ’0′ is the processor ID and ‘-n’ indicates the processor is brought online (enable)

Using psrinfo

psrinfo displays more detailed information of the Processors including the number of Physical processors on the system and the number of virtual processors on the system. Each virtual processor is in its own a seperate entity.

Run psrinfo as root without arguments gives a quick summary of the processors with its IDs and the time since online.

# which psrinfo
/usr/sbin/psrinfo

sunsolaris# psrinfo
0       on-line   since 05/09/2008 19:41:32

For a more detailed output use the verbose option. This gives much more detailed information including processor type, operating speed etc for every available processor.

sunsolaris# psrinfo -v
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 05/09/2008 20:05:34
  on-line since 05/09/2008 19:41:32.
  The i386 processor operates at 2000 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
       
Using prtiag

This can once again give a summarised information on the processor version and its ID.

sunsolaris# which prtdiag
/usr/sbin/prtdiag

sunsolaris# prtdiag
System Configuration: VMware, Inc. VMware Virtual Platform
BIOS Configuration: Phoenix Technologies LTD 6.00 04/17/2006

==== Processor Sockets ====================================

Version                          Location Tag
——————————– ————————–
Pentium(R) Pro                   CPU socket #0

…..
….

Using prtconf

Based on the installed drivers, you can find the information on the CPUs on the system.

sunsolaris# which prtconf
/usr/sbin/prtconf

sunsolaris#prtconf
System Configuration:  Sun Microsystems  i86pc
Memory size: 512 Megabytes
System Peripherals (Software Nodes):
…
..
…
cpus (driver not attached)
      cpu, instance #0 (driver not attached)

Not much information on my solaris 10 system running on a virtual server.