[OpenIndiana-discuss] Question about drive LEDs

[Fred Liu]

> In brief, I cloned a bootable SATA disk from the VMware (now
> discontinued) Sun Unified Storage simulator, and then created the
> graphics and definitions to match a Supermicro 4U chassis and system
> board.
> Everything worked exactly as a real one would, including disk locator
> led's, disk present/absent graphics etc. and was able to be updated
> with
> new firmware.
> 
> Since it was origionally designed as an generic appliance kit and there
> was mention of it being available as Software, this was relatively easy
> to do.
> It is definitely Solaris based, but has some quite different drivers
> etc. than OpenSolaris.
> 
> IPMI is required to make it work.
> 
> There are quite a few xml files to configure, along with graphics.
> It is also very easy to crash the management svc with invalid
> definitions.
> 
> 
> sample definition:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE topology SYSTEM "/usr/share/lib/xml/dtd/topology.dtd.1">
> <!--
>  Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
>  Use is subject to license terms.
> 
>  CDDL HEADER START
> 
>  The contents of this file are subject to the terms of the
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>  You may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
> 
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> 
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> 
>     ident	"@(#)X7DW3-hc-topology.xml	1.1	08/09/25 SMI"
> -->
> 
> <topology name='X7DW3' scheme='hc'>
> 
> 
>   <range name='motherboard' min='0' max='0'>
>     <node instance='0'>
>       <set type='product' setlist='X7DW3'>
>         <fac-enum provider='fac_prov_ipmi' />
>         <propgroup name='protocol' version='1'
>             name-stability='Private' data-stability='Private' >
>             <propval name='label' type='string' value='MB' />
>         </propgroup>
>         <propgroup name='ipmi' version='1'
>             name-stability='Private' data-stability='Private' >
>             <propval name='entity_ref' type='string' value='mb.fru' />
>         </propgroup>
> 
>       </set>
> 
>     </node>
> 
>   <range name='chassis' min='0' max='10'>
>      <enum-method name='ipmi' version='1' />
>   </range>
> 
>    <range name='psu' min='0' max='100'>
>    <enum-method name='ipmi' version='1' />
>    </range>
>    <range name='fan' min='0' max='100'>
>     <enum-method name='ipmi' version='1' />
>      </range>
>      <range name='bay' min='0' max='1024'>
>      <enum-method name='ses' version='1' />
>      </range>
>     </set>
> 
>   <range name='ses-enclosure' min='0' max='1024'>
>     <enum-method name='ses' version='1' />
>   </range>
> 
> </topology>
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Mark.
> 

Great! Many thanks.

What is the hardware spec of the Supermicro appliance?


Thanks.

Fred