Work on Solaris 10

For the past few days I've been busy with setup a new server. No its not new actually, its an old machine (t2000, not to old I guess) and it not been used for quite some time. So when we plugged the power supply, and poweron the OS, immediately it's running. Perform basic check up, suddenly its hung. This happened twice! Since its already late, we decided to continue the next Monday, in the meanwhile giving the server a chance to slowly wake up from a long sleep. (-_-)

Gladly the next Monday, the server is up and running fine. So we decided to continue with reconfiguration of IP address and hostname. We learned, one new and completely powerful command to reconfigure IP, hostname and gateway at once. On solaris 10 you can use this command sys-unconfig . Warning! This command will reboot your machine! Once you run the command, it will reboot the machine, and prompt screen will appear, all you need to do is to fill up whatever it ask you, from IP, hostname, gateway, subnet mask, NIC interface and etc. So make sure you know all this before you run the command. I am happy that I learned and gained new experience, but I hate myself for not screen capture!

By the way, please check you network cable as well. I am so excited to connect the cable till I forgot that I need to check which one is the correct cable to insert. I got this error:

root@XXXXX # ping -s xx.xxx.xxx.xx
PING  xx.xxx.xxx.xx: 56 data bytes
^C
---- xx.xxx.xxx.xx PING Statistics----
65 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

I tried to reach another server from the same network but failed. But I can ping myself and also gateway. Something is wrong here. I go back home, research but could not find the answer. Thanks to the Almighty suddenly I got an idea to check the cable. and yes, silly me!

We continue the journey by adding a new hard disk. This web gave a very detail procedure on how to add new hdd to solaris 10. Have a check on this url: http://utahsysadmin.com/2008/02/07/adding-a-hard-drive-to-solaris-10/