Not sure what you mean by "not seeing it on the queued list at
brussels-dev." Are you referring to the community project page? On that
page, navigation bar on the left, the link to the questionnaire is
listed under Documentation.
If you're referring to something else, let me know - I'll check if it's
something I can fix at my end.
Raoul
Sowmini.Varadhan at Sun.COM wrote:
> For some reason, I'm not able to see this on the queued list
> at brussels-dev. While I check into that, here's some interesting
> feedback on things that would be interesting to add on a GUI.
> (real-time statistics in a graphical mode).
>
> --Sowmini
>
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>
>> To: brussels-dev at opensolaris.org
>> From: Erick Ramirez <erickram at au1.ibm.com>
>> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 15:06:10 +1100
>> Subject: Project Brussels Questionnaire
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>> 1. Please provide a one-line or two-line overview of your networking
>> environment.
>>
>> I managed an enviroment with multiple network segments composed of hundreds
>> of hosts in segregated VLANs.
>>
>> 2. Do you frequently change or upgrade your network interface cards?
>>
>> Yes, mainly to reset settings on NIC when they have autonegotiated to a
>> slow setting.
>>
>> 3. Do you modify existing NIC configuration or adjust the tunables? If yes,
>> how frequently do you perform these tasks?
>>
>> Yes, again mainly to reset. We do this anywhere from twice a week to 5
>> times a week.
>>
>> 4. What tools or commands do you use to administer NICs? Are you satisfied
>> with the existing tools?
>>
>> I use kstat to get the configuration details and ndd to change settings.
>> Also use ifconfig.
>>
>> 5. What do you like about the current methods to administer NICs?
>>
>> They are all command line based which makes it easy to script them as
>> required.
>>
>> 6. What do you dislike about the current methods to administer NICs?
>>
>> It can be tiresome having to set individual NIC settings particularly when
>> using ndd especially if you haven't previously written a script for it.
>>
>> 7. What are the typical NIC tunables or properties that you monitor most of
>> the time?
>>
>> We predominantly reset the duplex and speed. We are having issues with
>> Gb-connections autonegotiating down to a slower speed.
>>
>> 8. Do you have scripts that run at boot time which set ndd parameters?
>>
>> Yes, we do for all NICs to ensure that they are not running on half-duplex
>> or 100Mbps.
>>
>> 9. Do you write custom drivers? If yes, please provide any feedback about
>> the following proposal by the Brussels project:
>>
>> No.
>>
>> 10. Do you use Link Aggregation ("Trunking")?
>>
>> No, we only use multipathing. This is more for redundancy because we do not
>> have any requirements at this stage to increase throughput.
>>
>> 11. Do you use WiFi?
>>
>> No, not on servers.
>>
>> 12. Have you used the dladm as a configuration tool, such as dladm
>> set-linkprop?
>>
>> No, I have not used link aggregation.
>>
>> 13. Are you interested in a GUI-based version of the dladm command?
>>
>> Yes, mainly to see real-time statistics in a graphical mode.
>>
>> 14. Should the GUI-based tool be capable of tweaking all of the available
>> NIC properties?
>>
>> No preference, as long as all the settings can be tweaked via command line.
>>
>> 15. To configure the MTU property, would you prefer to select from a list
>> of set values that is provided by the GUI, or would you prefer typing the
>> value in an input field?
>>
>> Both, be able to select from a list as well as type a value.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Erick
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Erick Ramirez | Systems Administrator - Solaris | Server Management
>> Midrange
>> Server Systems Operations | Integrated Technology Delivery | IBM Australia
>> Phone: +61 3 8656 2000 | Direct: +61 3 8656 2710 (x62710) | Mobile: + 61
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>> Email: erickram at au1.ibm.com | Address: Level 14, 60 City Road, Southbank
>> VIC 3006
>>
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