SUMMARY Scripts for SUNWExplorer output

From: Eric Falen <Robert_E_Falen_at_raytheon.com>
Date: Fri Feb 14 2003 - 15:34:23 EST
Original request is listed at the bottom

Thanks for the great response from the list!!.  Two folks provided some
perl scripts (atleast volunteered to let me have them).  A couple
suggested that I contact Sun Support and try to get them to provide
their capability.  One suggested that I look at the Config Management
S/W that Sun has.  Another provided a third party to look at.  Another
suggested just sending it to Sun, they reformat it and return it to him
in a more usable form.

I am working on the perl scripts to fit my site.  I did contact Sun and
they were not interested in giving me anything ( sent the request on up
through the mangement ranks, maybe someone on top will have better
luck).  Sun's Stuff is NOT cheep enough.  I am reviewing the information
from the third party vendor and will probably contact them for more
information.  Due to my environment, sending anything outside the plant
is not a option.

I have listed the responders and their comments below


Eric,

     I realize this probably isn't what you're wanting to do, but we run
Explorer and e-mail the output to our local Sun SSE.  He runs it through

some sort of "magic decoder ring" that's a Sun internal program, and
which produces an extremely nicely formatted html document outlining
problems, patches needed, etc.  He then e-mails me the html doc, and we
take it from there.  HTH...

Kevin Buterbaugh - Systems Engineer
LifeWay

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To:
        Eric Falen <Robert_E_Falen@raytheon.com>
I wrote 2 tools (perl scripts)
One to extract the files from the compressed result of explorer,
One to add some indexes around , making browsing around easier, and
sorting patches and packages
all the result are accessed via an http server.
you can find these scripts here:
http://www.geocities.com/bhutin/unix/scripts/perl/extract-explorer.pl
http://www.geocities.com/bhutin/unix/scripts/perl/explo2html.pl

I will try to put a sample result in my personnal pages tomorrow

  From:
        Bertrand HUTIN <bhutin@yahoo.fr>
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I have a solution hacked together Perl scripts which downloads (from a
POP
account), uncompresses and extracts all the files to a directory runs
through them all and generates some index stuff, runs  the SUN
patchcheck
utility  and create some data files then  using mod_perl on apache
display
them I am happy to send you the scripts but basically you are on your
own.
Nigel Owen
Enterprise Networks & eBusiness

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  Eric,

  Have you taken a look at the Enterprise Storage Manager (ESM)
  from Sun. It includes a configuration service, topology reporter,
  and a diagnostic expert. I run the product on a small SAN network
  of about 14 systems. It allows me to track the topology and sends
  me health checks about the environment.
   From:
        "Martin D. Baldenegro (RRNC)" <mdb@cwiz.com>

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This isn't quite what you're looking for, but it may come in handy....

http://www.cirba.com/audit/

The audit and differential reports are great.
--
Adam Ronthal
ronthal@fugue.net
http://www.fugue.net

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contact sun.  with all the server that you have that are under a
warranty or service contract, sum have let you have the program they
use to interpret the data.
   From:
        Hichael Morton <mh1272@yahoo.com>

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Try the following commands:
psrinfo -v
prtdiag -v
pkginfo
showrev -p
uname -a
df -k

That should give you a good bit of data to start with.  :-)


From:
             Matt Harris <mdh@unix.si.edu>
 Organization:
             Smithsonian Institution - UNIX Engineering

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>
> I am currently setting up a customer with quite a few Sun 880's,
4800's,
> and 6800's.  I am trying to setup some type of configuration
management
> for about 200 servers broken into three general groups.  Security
> constraints keep each group isolated from the others.
>
> It appears that the Sun Explorer capability collects all the relevant
> data that I would need to accomplish this goal.  However, the amount
of
> data it collects is staggering.  And each section is in a format that
> best suits that piece of data.
>
> I am wondering if anyone has developed any scripts that would sort
> through the data and produce a ( set of ) report(s) that summarize the

> contents.   I have checked this list archives, Sun, and google and
have
> not found anything.  I did see one similiar request, but no summary.
> When I treid to contact the author, my mail was returned ( his mail
box
> was full ??? )
>
> Obviously genrally available scripts would nice.  If you knew of a
good
> third party solution I would be interested in it.  If you use one
could
> you comment on the administration side of getting it set up and
running.
>
> Thanks in advance for any assistance you may be able to provide.
>
> I will summarize
>
> Eric Falen
> Sys Admin
> Raytheon, Garland TX
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