[geeks] More E10k circling: SSP software

[Jonathan J. M. Katz]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 12:47 PM, JP Hindin <jplist2008 at kiwigeek.com> wrote:
> The SSP for my E10k has memory issues ("Memory Address Not Aligned", which
> I'm assuming means it's ticked at something in the RAM space), and while I
> suspect I can get it fixed, and I also can image the disk for, at least,
> the EEPROM images, I'm wondering how to find the SSP software to install
> it on an alternate machine, if necessary.

Is your SSP a Sparc 5 or Ultra 2? or ???? Regardless, finding
replacement RAM shouldn't be that difficult. The system should have
internal disks that are mirrored. In the 10Ks which were deployed
almost all systems had 2 systems as SSPs (a primary and a backup.) We
didn't use SunCluster for the HA between the hosts, it was handled by
the SSP software. My memory is foggy, but the HA for the ethernet
traffic was managed Alternate Pathing software (pre-IPMP.)

YES. Take usfdump's of your disks (or dd's or whatever your preferred
method is.) The E10Ks had licenses which were generated which were
applied to the SSPs and controlled the number of domains you were
allowed on the system. You need at least one to get going. This may
have changed in later releases of the SSP software.

The SSP software was stuff you'd pkgadd from a download (or CD) from
Sun. The SSP speaks JTAG over the 10Mbit interface to the Controller
Board in the E10K and would have cool software like the "hostview"
GUI.

I dug out my E10K Systems Administration course book which I had in my
basement. I thought I pitched it. If you want it, let me know, and I
can snail-mail it to you.