[OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Management Centre

[Rainer Heilke]

Just a quick update:
I'll still try to see if I can find any OpenIndiana.org references to 
smc (not having found them yet, I suspect they were third party pages), 
but I don't think I'll get to play with RBAC. It seems my test system 
likes to lose any USB drives on reboot, and when/if I get them back, all 
data is gone. zpool is even telling me that one zpool has a property 
that has never existed on this box:
This pool uses the following feature(s) not supported by this system:
         com.klarasystems:vdev_zaps_v2
cannot import 'Work': unsupported version or feature
It's even losing the internal SSD.
I'm loath to play around with RBAC, or anything else, on my OmniOS 
backup server. And I doubt I can get any OpenSolaris flavour running on 
a Raspberry Pi. :/   I even got a pair of 4TB drives for this (they were 
surprisingly inexpensive).
To quote Gary Olman's character in 5th Element, "I'm getting very 
disappointed!"
Rainer
I wonder if there's something in the BIOS...


------ Original Message ------
>From "Rainer Heilke" <rheilke at dragonhearth.com>
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Date 2024-05-14 11:13:24 AM
Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Management Centre

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>------ Original Message ------
>From "Rolf M. Dietze" <rmd at orbit.in-berlin.de>
>To "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <openindiana-discuss at openindiana.org>
>Date 2024-05-14 12:43:55 AM
>Subject Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Sun Management Centre
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>>Quoting Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com>:
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>>>On 5/13/24 22:50, Toomas Soome via openindiana-discuss wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On 14. May 2024, at 08:12, Rainer Heilke <rheilke at dragonhearth.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>Hi.
>>>>>I keep running into documentation that tells me to do a task by  firing up the Sun Management Centre, but OI doesn't seem to have  it, nor can I find any way of getting/installing it. Is it  available for OpenIndiana? Is it maybe in a different repository?
>>>>>The documentation needs to either explain how to get it, or any  reference to it needs to be purged, IMNSH opinion. If the former,  I may be able to help a bit, as energy levels allow.
>>>>>??
>>>>>Rainer
>>>>I’m afraid, it is long dead. So yes, if you see the references,  please do file the issue (and patches are also very welcome!).
>>>>
>>>>thanks,
>>>>toomas
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>>>I'll look into how to file issues, and make a note of the pages I've  already found.
>>>
>>>Unfortunately, that means a number of documents need to be fleshed  out with the proper chain of commands to perform the functions, and  I don't know how much I can help. Aside from limited energy, I never  had to deal with RBAC, etc. This is new-ish territory for me, having  always used sudo when I was working. (I want to learn the "proper"  RBAC way of doing things, even if only for kicks and giggles, which  is why I was looking into this in the first place.)
>>>
>>>Rainer
>>Hi Rainer,
>>
>>I use RBAC quite often, on Solaris as well as on OpenIndiana since I
>>am running Sunray desktops for class on Solaris in kiosk mode to have
>>the students connect to OpenIndiana machines for their tasks to do.
>>The students have to do admin stuff on the target systems but are all
>>homed on one OpenIndiana machine to start from. So RBAC and resource
>>management are needed. If you reference to the old Solaris 10 documentation,
>>both run smoothly. I do not use any GUI but xterm for that as for most
>>tasks on theses boxes. Have a look in the old documentation. Resource
>>management works quite the same as on solaris 11, also have a look there
>>
>>By the way, I do have an issue with resource management on OpenIndiana,
>>that is, if a student runs against certain limitations mostly in number
>>of lwps, the resource management terminates the X server. That it does
>>for all sessions. Haven't had the time to dig into this and I am not
>>sure if it is of any interest since my setup is not so commonly used.
>>
>>The Sun Management Center was a long and not so enthusiastic story as
>>since Solaris never had consistent admin GUIs as example smit on AIX oder
>>sam on HP-UX
>>
>>Rolf
>>
>Thanks, to everyone.
>I'll try to file issues in the next few days -- I have other (non-computer) issues to deal with today.
>I think that before I start asking questions, I need to wrap my head around the general structure of RBAC. What comes first, that sort of thing. Then my questions will at least make sense, and I won't be wasting everyone's time.
>Till: funny how you mention just dealing with openindiana.org pages. Oracle's pages all still reference SMC as well. :b Not much help, are they? ;-)
>Rainer
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