by Most people don’t realize the level of management information that you can get from a Netra (104 or 200 or v120). Sure, they are old and slow by modern standards, but they are extremely rugged and come in AC and DC varieties which is very handy when you are a telco shop or have telco components. The Lights out Management (LOM) functionality is still the best in breed of any vendor, and had capabilities 4 years ago that others are still trying to catch up to today. Rackable is next best and things go down hill from there.
(possibly incomplete) list of components:
- Sun Netra SNMP Management Agent. Lots of documentation here. a few mib files too. If you take a look at the entity mib it will look suspiciously like IPMI. I think the IPMI WG used the sun entity mib as a reference model.
- Netra t Lights Out Management Software 2.0. Install SUNWlomr, SUNWlomu, SUNWlomm (Note Aug 14 2007 – Sun has changed some links and some things may be obsolete. There’s some fresher stuff here)
- Sun Patch 110208-19 (Lights out Mangement 2.0. Don’t forget to run lom -G default)
- Net SNMP 5.1 or better (the sun snmp management agent is java and this acts as an effective proxy mechanism in front of it)
- If you have an old Netra 105, you also need to run lom -B to install compatability drivers and immediately reboot after adding the lom packages. Then install the patches.
Once you have the SUNWsnim stuff (java, from item 1 above) you can configure the files in /etc/opt/SUNWsnim/ (snim.conf and snmp.acl) to lock things down a little bit. You should also define trap destinations. The management software works in conjunction with LOM to send you traps when fans fail, overheat, power issues, FRU failures, etc. It’s very handy. You define the managers and trap receivers in the snmp.acl. I leave the snim.conf alone (leaving the agent listen on 8085). Then I configure snmpd to proxy requests to 8085. If you don’t have or want net-snmp (useful for process monitoring, load monitoring, and memory and other system thresholds), you can adjust snim.conf to listen on port 161.
The last piece is the snmpd glue. Add these lines to snmpd.conf
proxy -v 1 -c CommUnity localhost:8085 .1.3.6.1.2.1.47 proxy -v 1 -c CommUnity localhost:8085 .1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.25.99.2 proxy -v 1 -c CommUnity localhost:8085 .1.3.6.1.4.1.42.2.25.99.3
Replace CommUnity with your SNMP read-only community string
Now you can query the netra mib. I wrote a little tcl/scotty app that walks the 2 relevant trees and generates an HTML table like below. When things fail, the status changes. We inject alarm events into Netcool with a url reference to our CGI page that can go to the netra and pull up this table, or a specific index of this table for a view of the failed component.
| Ind | Descr | VendType | PhysName | HardRev | Serial | Manuf | Model | FRU? | AlarmType | AlarmState | OperState | fanRPM | minRPM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Netra T1 200 (UltraSPARC-IIe 500MHz) Chassis | 0 | 2164129084 | Sun_Microsystems | 370-4283 | false | enabled | ||||||
| 2 | Enclosure Temperature | 0 | Enclosure | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 3 | Fan 1 | 0 | fan1 | Sun Microsystems | 370-4284 | false | enabled | ||||||
| 4 | Fan 1 Tachometer | 0 | false | enabled | 7828 | 4403 | |||||||
| 5 | Fan 2 | 0 | fan2 | Sun Microsystems | 370-4284 | false | enabled | ||||||
| 6 | PSU | 0 | Sun Microsystems | 300-1489 DC 300-1488 AC |
false | enabled | |||||||
| 7 | Drive 0 | 0 | Low profile 3.5 inch UltraSCSI Drive Bay | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 8 | Fan 2 Tachometer | 0 | false | enabled | 8121 | 4403 | |||||||
| 9 | Fan 4 | 0 | fan4 | Sun Microsystems | false | enabled | |||||||
| 10 | PSU Input A | 0 | false | enabled | |||||||||
| 11 | PSU Input B | 0 | false | enabled | |||||||||
| 12 | Drive 1 | 0 | Low profile 3.5 inch UltraSCSI Drive Bay | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 13 | CD-ROM Drive | 0 | Low-profile IDE CD-ROM Drive Bay | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 14 | Fan 4 Tachometer | 0 | false | enabled | 8203 | 3281 | |||||||
| 15 | Motherboard | 0 | Sun Microsystems | 375-0132 | false | enabled | |||||||
| 16 | Fault LED | 0 | Fault | Amber LED | false | visible | off | enabled | |||||
| 17 | ST318404LSUN18G | 0 | c1t0d0s2 | 4203 | 3BT24ZG300007125 | SEAGATE | true | enabled | |||||
| 18 | ST318404LSUN18G | 0 | c1t1d0s2 | 4203 | 3BT24TAK00007125 | SEAGATE | true | enabled | |||||
| 19 | CD-ROM XM-7002Bc | 0 | c3t0d0 | 1110 | 04/27/00 | Sun Microsystems | 370-4278 | true | enabled | ||||
| 20 | PSU 3V3 Output | 0 | 3V3 | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 21 | PSU 5V Output | 0 | 5V | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 22 | PSU +12V Output | 0 | +12V | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 23 | PSU -12V Output | 0 | -12V | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 24 | SCSI Terminator Supply | 0 | SCSI-Term | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 25 | USB 0 Supply | 0 | USB0 | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 26 | USB 1 Supply | 0 | USB1 | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 27 | SCC Socket | 0 | Sun Microsystems | 370-4290 | false | enabled | |||||||
| 28 | PSU 3VSB Output | 0 | +3VSB | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 29 | CPU Core PSU | 0 | Sun Microsystems | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 30 | SCC | 0 | SCC | Sun Microsystems | 370-4285 | true | enabled | ||||||
| 31 | CPU Core PSU Output | 0 | VDD Core | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 32 | SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIe (500MHz) | 0 | cpu0 | sparcv9 Impl 19 | Sun Microsystems | false | enabled | ||||||
| 33 | PCI Slot | 0 | Long 32-bit 33MHz 5V | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 34 | Fan 3 | 0 | fan3 | Sun Microsystems | 370-4352 | false | enabled | ||||||
| 35 | CPU Temperature | 0 | CPU | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 36 | Fan 3 Tachometer | 0 | false | enabled | 3164 | 1265 | |||||||
| 37 | LOMlite2 | 0 | lom | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 38 | Alarm 1 | 0 | Alarm1 | false | other | off | enabled | ||||||
| 39 | Alarm 2 | 0 | Alarm2 | false | other | off | enabled | ||||||
| 40 | System Alarm | 0 | Alarm3 | false | other | enabled | |||||||
| 41 | Watchdog | 0 | ASR Watchdog | false | enabled | ||||||||
| 42 | SCSI | 0 | 68-pin SCSI Connector | false | |||||||||
| 43 | Serial A/LOM | 0 | ttya | RJ45 RS232 | false | ||||||||
| 44 | Serial B | 0 | ttyb | RJ45 RS232 | false | ||||||||
| 45 | Net 0 | 0 | eri0 | 080020fdfd3c | 10/100 Mbps RJ45 Ethernet | false | |||||||
| 46 | Net 1 | 0 | eri1 | 080020fdfd3d | 10/100 Mbps RJ45 Ethernet | false | |||||||
| 47 | USB 0 | 0 | hub0 | USB connector | false | ||||||||
| 48 | USB 1 | 0 | hub1 | USB connector | false | ||||||||
| 49 | Fault LED | 0 | Fault | Amber LED | false | visible | enabled |