From: Eric Falen (Robert_E_Falen@raytheon.com)
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 15:34:23 EST
Original request is listed at the bottom
Thanks for the great response from the list!!. Two folks provided some
perl scripts (atleast volunteered to let me have them). A couple
suggested that I contact Sun Support and try to get them to provide
their capability. One suggested that I look at the Config Management
S/W that Sun has. Another provided a third party to look at. Another
suggested just sending it to Sun, they reformat it and return it to him
in a more usable form.
I am working on the perl scripts to fit my site. I did contact Sun and
they were not interested in giving me anything ( sent the request on up
through the mangement ranks, maybe someone on top will have better
luck). Sun's Stuff is NOT cheep enough. I am reviewing the information
from the third party vendor and will probably contact them for more
information. Due to my environment, sending anything outside the plant
is not a option.
I have listed the responders and their comments below
Eric,
I realize this probably isn't what you're wanting to do, but we run
Explorer and e-mail the output to our local Sun SSE. He runs it through
some sort of "magic decoder ring" that's a Sun internal program, and
which produces an extremely nicely formatted html document outlining
problems, patches needed, etc. He then e-mails me the html doc, and we
take it from there. HTH...
Kevin Buterbaugh - Systems Engineer
LifeWay
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To:
Eric Falen <Robert_E_Falen@raytheon.com>
I wrote 2 tools (perl scripts)
One to extract the files from the compressed result of explorer,
One to add some indexes around , making browsing around easier, and
sorting patches and packages
all the result are accessed via an http server.
you can find these scripts here:
http://www.geocities.com/bhutin/unix/scripts/perl/extract-explorer.pl
http://www.geocities.com/bhutin/unix/scripts/perl/explo2html.pl
I will try to put a sample result in my personnal pages tomorrow
From:
Bertrand HUTIN <bhutin@yahoo.fr>
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I have a solution hacked together Perl scripts which downloads (from a
POP
account), uncompresses and extracts all the files to a directory runs
through them all and generates some index stuff, runs the SUN
patchcheck
utility and create some data files then using mod_perl on apache
display
them I am happy to send you the scripts but basically you are on your
own.
Nigel Owen
Enterprise Networks & eBusiness
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Eric,
Have you taken a look at the Enterprise Storage Manager (ESM)
from Sun. It includes a configuration service, topology reporter,
and a diagnostic expert. I run the product on a small SAN network
of about 14 systems. It allows me to track the topology and sends
me health checks about the environment.
From:
"Martin D. Baldenegro (RRNC)" <mdb@cwiz.com>
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This isn't quite what you're looking for, but it may come in handy....
The audit and differential reports are great.
--
Adam Ronthal
ronthal@fugue.net
http://www.fugue.net
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contact sun. with all the server that you have that are under a
warranty or service contract, sum have let you have the program they
use to interpret the data.
From:
Hichael Morton <mh1272@yahoo.com>
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Try the following commands:
psrinfo -v
prtdiag -v
pkginfo
showrev -p
uname -a
df -k
That should give you a good bit of data to start with. :-)
From:
Matt Harris <mdh@unix.si.edu>
Organization:
Smithsonian Institution - UNIX Engineering
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>
> I am currently setting up a customer with quite a few Sun 880's,
4800's,
> and 6800's. I am trying to setup some type of configuration
management
> for about 200 servers broken into three general groups. Security
> constraints keep each group isolated from the others.
>
> It appears that the Sun Explorer capability collects all the relevant
> data that I would need to accomplish this goal. However, the amount
of
> data it collects is staggering. And each section is in a format that
> best suits that piece of data.
>
> I am wondering if anyone has developed any scripts that would sort
> through the data and produce a ( set of ) report(s) that summarize the
> contents. I have checked this list archives, Sun, and google and
have
> not found anything. I did see one similiar request, but no summary.
> When I treid to contact the author, my mail was returned ( his mail
box
> was full ??? )
>
> Obviously genrally available scripts would nice. If you knew of a
good
> third party solution I would be interested in it. If you use one
could
> you comment on the administration side of getting it set up and
running.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide.
>
> I will summarize
>
> Eric Falen
> Sys Admin
> Raytheon, Garland TX
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