On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Alan DuBoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008, Brian Cameron wrote: > > > I worked on the Sun Management Center project from 1999-2001. > > You would admit that on a public fora? *gd&r* > > -- > > Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > It wasn't that bad, though the GUI flakyness could get annoying. The more detailed diagnostic information was great (though the agent install could have been better). The graphical hardware mapping (for Sparc) was great though. If we could have that, I (and many sysadmins who aren't always able to go to the datacenter to fix something) would be overjoyed. As a side note, I still think it'd be invaluable to have something that will map devices to hardware locations on supported platforms (thus I can know that ce5 is in Slot 4, controller # 3 is in Slot 2, etc) -- you can do this on sparc by hand (I could still probably do it for an E12k/15k/20k/25k), but it's tedious. It looked like libtopo might help, but lack of documentation outside of Sun has made it impossible for me to know for sure (unless I want to sit down and just learn the API by studying the tens of thousands of lines of not really documented code, and try to infer all the correct assumptions, etc. etc.).
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