CX4 and Solaris11

As far as I know, the Host Agent particularly for Solaris11 is not available yet. However, .pkg for Solaris10 has worked on Solaris11. Either you may try installing Host Agent for Solaris 10 or you may register the initiators manually.

Ankit

ok i installed the following VERSION:  6.29.6.0.35

its installed but does not register to the CX

Register Manually wil work but so far i'm out of luck to have the sol10 agent working on solaris11

anyone knowing EMC plan about solaris11 ?

Which version for Solaris10 you have tried installing?

anyone knowing EMC plan about solaris11 ?

I'll try poking around see if I get any date or ETA.

Are you using Solaris SPARC or Solaris x86?

for present project Solaris sparc, but in fact both

Apologies for delayed response!

You might want to read: Unisphere Host Software/CLI and Utilities for VNX OE for Block Release Notes Version 1.2.1.1.0017

From a quick reading/glance I was able to understand Unisphere Agent Version: 1.2.0.1 might work with FLARE30 on CX4.

Table on Page 6 lists all the software requirement.

Moreover, while researching I did find KB Article emc254967 (

Where do I find information about Navisphere/Unisphere Host Agent?  ) informative which can be bookmarked for future references.

I do not see Solaris 11 SPARC listed anywhere but Would you be able to give it a try for Solaris 11 x86 also, re-install Unisphere Host Agent on SPARC (uninstall - reboot the host - install) let us know if it works out?

EMC Unisphere Host Agent is supported with Oracle Solaris 11. I have tested it in virtual environment.

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Paths to download Unisphere/Navisphere Host Agent from Powerlink

For Unisphere host agent:

Home > Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads T-Z > Unisphere Server Software

For Navisphere host agent:

Home > Support > Software Downloads and Licensing > Downloads J-O > Navisphere Server Software

Installing Unisphere/Navisphere Host Agent for Solaris:

Installation of Unisphere Host Agent and Navisphere Host Agent on Solaris 11 is same.

Following is the procedure to install Unisphere Host Agent on Solaris 11. It is implemented on Oracle Solaris 11.1 X86 - Virtual Machine.

Virtual Machine Operating System details: Oracle Solaris 11.1 X86

Steps to install:

1) Make sure that each storage system is connected to Solaris server where you are installing Unisphere Host Agent.

2) If your server is behind a firewall, open TCP/IP port 6389. (This port is used by the host agent. If this port is not opened, the host agent will not function properly.)

3) At the Solaris server, log in as superuser (root).

4) If any previous revision of Host Agent is installed on the server, remove it before continuing; otherwise continue to the next step.

Note: In this scenario, Unisphere Host Agent package HostAgent-Solaris-32-x64-en_US-1.0.55.1.0044-1.pkg is placed under /software directory on Solaris 11 virtual machine.

5) In a shell, enter the following commands:

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root@solaris:~# cd /software  (To change the current working directory to /software as I have placed the host agent package under this directory).

root@solaris:/software# ls -ltr (To list the contents of /software directory).

total 45093

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22982656 Dec 1 08:41 HostAgent-Solaris-32-x64-en_US-1.0.55.1.0044-1.pkg

(Below command is the main command which will install Host Agent on the Solaris 11 host)

root@solaris:/software# pkgadd -d ./HostAgent-Solaris-32-x64-en_US-1.0.55.1.0044-1.pkg

The following packages are available:

1 HOSTAGENT Unisphere Disk Array Management Tool (AGENT)

(x86) 1.0.55.1.0044

Select package(s) you wish to process (or 'all' to process

all packages). (default: all) [?,??,q]: all

Processing package instance from

Unisphere Disk Array Management Tool (AGENT)(x86) 1.0.55.1.0044

Copyright (C) 2010, EMC Corporation.

## Executing checkinstall script.

Using as the package base directory.

## Processing package information.

## Processing system information.

## Verifying disk space requirements.

## Checking for conflicts with packages already installed.

The following files are already installed on the system and are being

used by another package:

* /etc/init.d

* /etc/rc0.d

* /etc/rc2.d

* - conflict with a file which does not belong to any package.

Page 3 of 4

Do you want to install these conflicting files [y,n,?,q] y

## Checking for setuid/setgid programs.

This package contains scripts which will be executed with super-user

permission during the process of installing this package.

Do you want to continue with the installation of [y,n,?] y

Installing Unisphere Disk Array Management Tool (AGENT) as

## Installing part 1 of 1.

/etc/Unisphere/agent.config

/etc/init.d/agent

/etc/rc0.d/K40agent

/etc/rc2.d/S80agent

/opt/Unisphere/bin/agent.config

/opt/Unisphere/bin/clsendtrap

/opt/Unisphere/bin/hostagent

/opt/Unisphere/bin/hostagent.postinstall

[ verifying class ]

## Executing postinstall script.

No saved config files exist for Unisphere Agent.

Installation of was successful.

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6) Run the blow command to check the information about the installed Unisphere Host Agent.

root@solaris:/software# pkginfo -l HOSTAGENT

PKGINST: HOSTAGENT

NAME: Unisphere Disk Array Management Tool (AGENT)

CATEGORY: application

ARCH: x86

VERSION: 1.0.55.1.0044

BASEDIR: /opt

VENDOR: EMC Corporation

PSTAMP: Unisphere:2012:02:22:21:15:49

INSTDATE: Dec 01 2012 10:11

HOTLINE: Please contact your local service provider

STATUS: completely installed

FILES: 15 installed pathnames

7 directories

4 executables

44872 blocks used (approx)

7) Below are the commands to start/stop the Unisphere Host Agent on Solaris 11.

To stop Unisphere Host Agent Service

root@solaris:/software# /etc/init.d/agent stop

Shutting down Unisphere Agent

root@solaris:/software#

To start Unisphere Host Agent Service

root@solaris:/software# /etc/init.d/agent start

Starting Unisphere Agent

root@solaris:/software#

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Note: Please make sure that there is correct entry of your Server's hostname and IP address in hosts file. Also add CLARiiON SP's IP address entries in hosts file.

Example:

Suppose your server's hostname is Solaris11 and IP address is 192.168.10.15.

IP addresses of SP-A and SP-B are 192.168.10.17 and 192.168.10.18 respectively.

Hostnames of SP-A and SP-B are CLARiiON_SP-A and CLARiiON_SP-B respectively.

Then the hosts file entry should look like:

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192.168.10.15   Solaris11

192.168.10.17   CLARiiON_SP-A

192.168.10.18   CLARiiON_SP-B

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Thanks