In the following example we’re using a SPARC T4-2. These systems ship from the manufacturer with pre-installed Solaris 11. After the system has been racked and connected to primary and ILO networks, the first step is to configure the ILOM.

You will require a Serial-to-USB adapter and a DB9-to-RJ45 console cable. In this example a Windows 10 laptop is used to connect to the Sun ILOM.

1. In Windows Device Manager locate Ports (COM & LPT) -> USB Serial Port
2. In PuTTY create Serial connection using COM# from above, baud 9600, terminal emulation VT100
3. Initiate connection, hit Enter, login as root:changeme
4. At the serial prompt, type the following:

show /SP/network
set /SP/network pendingipdiscovery=static
set /SP/network pendingipaddress=<server_ip>
set /SP/network pendingipgateway=<default_router>
set /SP/network pendingipnetmask=<network_mask>
show /SP/network
set /SP/network commitpending=true
set /SP/network state=enabled
show /SP/network
set /SP hostname=<ILOM_hostname> system_identifier="System description" system_location="Rack, Row, Datacenter, City, State"
show /SP
start /SYS
start /SP/console

The system should boot into the preinstalled image of Solaris. A configuration utility will prompt you to provide basic system information, such as host name, network configuration, and user authentication services. Because direct root login is disabled by default, you will also be prompted to create a personal account.

Basic network configuration

Show physical network interfaces:

# dladm show-phys
LINK              MEDIA                STATE      SPEED  DUPLEX    DEVICE
net1              Ethernet             up         1000   full      igb1
net3              Ethernet             unknown    0      unknown   igb3
net0              Ethernet             up         1000   full      igb0
net2              Ethernet             unknown    0      unknown   igb2
net4              Ethernet             up         10     full      usbecm2

Show configured network interfaces

# ipadm show-if
IFNAME     CLASS    STATE    ACTIVE OVER
lo0        loopback ok       yes    --
net0       ip       ok       yes    --
net1       ip       ok       yes    --
net4       ip       ok       yes    --

Show routing information

# route -p show
persistent: route add default 192.168.1.1 -ifp net0 -static
persistent: route add default 192.168.2.1 -ifp net1 -static

Show IP configuration

# ipadm show-addr
ADDROBJ           TYPE     STATE        ADDR
lo0/v4            static   ok           127.0.0.1/8
net0/v4           static   ok           192.168.1.23/24
net1/v4           static   ok           1192.168.1.22/24
net4/v4           static   ok           169.254.182.77/24
lo0/v6            static   ok           ::1/128

Configure network interface “net1”

ipadm create-ip net1
ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.2.23/24 net1/v4
route -p add default 192.168.2.1 -ifp net1 -static

Update default route for interface “net1”

route -p change default 192.168.2.1 -ifp net1

Remove default route for interface “net1”

route -p delete default 192.168.2.1 -ifp net1

Remove network interface “net1”

ipadm delete-ip net1

Configure LACP Link Aggregation

# Create active L4 LACP aggregation of net0 and net1 with MTU of 9000
dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000 net0
dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000 net1
dladm create-aggr -L active -T short -l net0 -l net1 aggr0
ipadm create-ip aggr0
ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.22.17/24 aggr0
route -p add default 192.168.22.1 -ifp aggr0 -static

 

Solaris 10/11 allow direct root SSH

cp -p /etc/ssh/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config.orig ; cp -p /etc/default/login /etc/default/login.orig ; sed 's/PermitRootLogin no/PermitRootLogin yes/g' /etc/ssh/sshd_config > /tmp/sshd_config ; mv -f /tmp/sshd_config /etc/ssh/sshd_config ; chown root:sys /etc/ssh/sshd_config ; chmod 644 /etc/ssh/sshd_config ; sed 's@CONSOLE=/dev/console@\#CONSOLE=/dev/console@g' /etc/default/login > /tmp/login ; mv -f /tmp/login /etc/default/login ; chown root:sys /etc/default/login ; chmod 644 /etc/default/login ; rolemod -K type=normal root ; svcadm restart svc:/network/ssh:default

Configure passwordless SSH

ssh-keygen -t rsa
cat /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | ssh root@<destination_server> "mkdir /root/.ssh 2>/dev/null; cat >> /root/.ssh/authorized_keys"

Configure ZFS mirror for the root volume

zpool status rpool
# Should contain a single disk by default

echo | format
# record the name of the second disk

zpool attach rpool c0t5000CCA054198290d0 c0t5000CCA0541B3668d0
# The original disk name is first, followed by the secondary disk

zpool status -lx
# Resilvering will take about 10 minutes

# after resilvering install bootblock on <second_disk>s0
installboot -f -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c0t5000CCA0541B3668d0s0

# power off, update boot devices, test alternate disk, reboot from original disk
init 0
devalias
setenv boot-device disk disk1 net
boot disk1
init 0
boot