Does anyone know what the "extCoronaP9" firmware shipped with SRS 5.3.0 is for? Should we be
enabling it on our Sunray3+ units?
We did enable this download for a single test unit and its firmware version pop-up (via STOP-V) now
shows "SunRayP9-E". What is the difference between this and the "normal" CoronaP9 firmware? The
firmware size is 756KB.
I have looked through the 5.3.0 documentation and have not been able to find any reference to
"extCoronaP9" or "SunRayP9-E". I also searched on the Oracle support site with the same negative
result, although my past success with this site has been patchy at best.
Thanks for any insight you can provide.
Sean Walmsley
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ADDITIONAL DETAILS
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As per our normal install process, during the 5.3.0 install we configured firmware (using utfwadm)
in /tftpboot only for the Sunray hardware we have on site, i.e. CoronaP8 through CoronaP10. We did
notice the extCoronaP9 firmware, but chose not to enable it initially as we weren't sure what it was
for.
After the upgrade, all our Sunray 3 units went through a two-stage firmware
upgrade process which:
- upgraded their firmware to 11.0_49_2012.03.27.10.35
- upgraded their smartcard reader firmware
So far so good...
Following the upgrade, however, every time we restarted these units they popped up the firmware
download window stating that they were:
Reading firmware file: extCoronaP9.<mac id>
After about 20-30 seconds a failure message blinked up and disappeared too quickly to read, and the
units then allowed login as usual.
Since this was annoying, we decided to test adding the extCoronaP9 firmware as
follows:
/opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -A -a -V -G force -f
/opt/SUNWutdfw/lib/firmware/extCoronaP9
We then connected a single test unit and turned it on. Sure enough, the unit downloaded the
additional firmware and rebooted the Sunray. Following reboot, the firmware version pop-up (via
STOP-V) now shows "SunRay P9-E" rather than "SunRayP9".
We are running on Solaris 10 SPARC and have full Oracle support on both our Sunray hardware and the
Sunray server software.
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