From: Theresa Sarver (tsarver@IFMC.SDPS.ORG)
Date: Fri Jan 16 2004 - 15:47:30 EST
Thanks everyone for the responses.
Well, believe it or not they have had to reboot several times to clear up CDROM mounting issues --- where it appears that a phantom process has the CDROM hung up. All joking aside I have not seen them mount a cdrom in under 8 minutes --- and we have done A LOT of application installs in the past 3 months! I have seen them reboot to change the IPA on a NIC which kinda suprised me. They also rebooted to fix [communication?] problems with the L700 Tape library and the 6800. I've seen them reboot several other times for things that I wouldn't have done on AIX, but I'm drawing a blank right now. ?
I mainly grew concerned when I heard them talking about not ever wanting to manually edit "anything under /etc" (specifically the passwd file) -- else risk the server not [re]booting. ????
Thanks again for the insight, and I'll try not to be quite so biased!!
Theresa
>>> RyeR@SCHNEIDER.COM 01/16/04 02:21PM >>>
What types of reboot's have you had to do?
Working in a mixed shop, the main difference I see between Solaris and AIX
is configuring devices [mainly luns/disk devices]. What I mean by this
configuring a jni or emmulex HBA card and then having to do a configuration
reboot to build the devices. Also Solaris devfsadm command doesn't
clean-up devices as well as advertised, so we end up rebooting to clear out
devices [mainly SAN storage] after we removed them from the system.
Ralph
Theresa Sarver
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Hi All;
My company is an AIX shop; however, SUN has a Solaris 9 lab setup in an
attempt to [try to] sell us some hardware...the one thing I've noticed is
that there is an awful lot of reboots required for Solaris (in comparison
to AIX)...does anyone know off the top of their head what all requires
reboots on SUN?
It also appears (as an outsider looking in) that the amount of
sys_admin_time on Solaris would be greatly increased. Is this an accurate
presumption or is my *bias* overpowering my vision! :)
Thanks for your info!
Theresa
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