We deliberately didn't enable the extCoronaP9 initially because we couldn't find any reference to it
being required in the docs. When we added it later, it loaded just fine.
My question is: what is the extCoronaP9 firmware file for? The SunRay3+ units seem to work properly
with only the updated CoronaP9 firmware file installed, and adding the "ext" file changes the
machine description (from [STOP]-[V]) from "SunrayP9" to "SunrayP9-E". What features does the extra
~750Kb of code contain, or put another way, what is the difference between a P9 unit and a P9-E unit?
To answer your specific question, after utfwinstall we did:
# clear out all firmware links in /tftpboot to get rid of old CoronaP1..P7 links
/opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -R
# add in firmware for Sunray 2, 3+, 3
/opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -A -a -V -G force -f
/opt/SUNWutdfw/lib/firmware/CoronaP8
/opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -A -a -V -G force -f
/opt/SUNWutdfw/lib/firmware/CoronaP9
/opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -A -a -V -G force -f
/opt/SUNWutdfw/lib/firmware/CoronaP10
After this, the Sunray3+ units downloaded the new CoronaP9 ([STOP]-[V] showed the correct new
version number) and seemed to work just fine with the exception of complaining about attempting to
download extCoronaP9 on each reboot.
We then did:
/opt/SUNWut/sbin/utfwadm -A -a -V -G force -f
/opt/SUNWutdfw/lib/firmware/extCoronaP9
following which the SunRay3+ units downloaded the "ext" firmware and changed their description (from
[STOP]-[V]) from SunrayP9 to SunRayP9-E.
So far, we haven't been able to discern any difference between our single upgraded "P9-E" unit and a
"regular" P9 unit (although they are in different physical locations so it's hard to do a good
comparison)
Thanks,
Sean
On 07/11/12 20:57, Craig Bender wrote:
Sun Ray 3 Plus (P9) loads in two phases and should automatically pickup the
second part upon the
initial reset after the first part. Can you tell me how you ran the initial
utfwadm command
after installing via utfwinstall?
Perhaps a long listing of /tftpboot and what the parms files look like.
On Jul 11, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Sean Walmsley<[email protected]>
wrote:
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
------------------ ADDITIONAL DETAILS ------------------ 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
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