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steps to add a new cpu/memory board into an E6800
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First off, it's a 6800 not E. Not to be nit picky but the whole Enterprise and SunFire line are diff.
Are you planning on using DR to bring the board into the domain? If you're not too familiar with the SunFires or cfgadm, you might just wanna bring the dom down and add the board thru the SC with the addboard command.
But anyways, to answer ur question in brief:
1) remove the filler panel
2) check to make sure there's no protective cover over the pins on the new board (i spent one long night changing a centerplane on a 6800 after bending a pin by not removing the plastic strip from the new board)
3) insert the new board making sure the top and bottom are in the guide rail
4) poweron the board from the SC (poweron sb#)
5) to get the firmware of ur existing brds, you can use the prtdiag -v from the OS or do a showboards -p (I think) from the SC (if ur scapp and rtos are too back rev, it might be a good idea to flash the whole platform to the lastest)
6) but anyways, once the new board is powered up, do a "flashupdate -c <existing sb> <new sb>" and that will copy whatever lever of firmware from ur existing boards to the new one
ex: flashupdate -c sb0 sb4
here the new board is 4
that's basically it. from here you can do a testboard or just setkey on and bring the whole dom up. When you do a setkeyswitch on, it runs a testboard against all the system boards anyways. But some ppl just prefer to run it standalone before bringing their dom all the way up. If testboard fails, it will just bring up ur dom minus whatever was bad on the new board.
good luck
Are you planning on using DR to bring the board into the domain? If you're not too familiar with the SunFires or cfgadm, you might just wanna bring the dom down and add the board thru the SC with the addboard command.
But anyways, to answer ur question in brief:
1) remove the filler panel
2) check to make sure there's no protective cover over the pins on the new board (i spent one long night changing a centerplane on a 6800 after bending a pin by not removing the plastic strip from the new board)
3) insert the new board making sure the top and bottom are in the guide rail
4) poweron the board from the SC (poweron sb#)
5) to get the firmware of ur existing brds, you can use the prtdiag -v from the OS or do a showboards -p (I think) from the SC (if ur scapp and rtos are too back rev, it might be a good idea to flash the whole platform to the lastest)
6) but anyways, once the new board is powered up, do a "flashupdate -c <existing sb> <new sb>" and that will copy whatever lever of firmware from ur existing boards to the new one
ex: flashupdate -c sb0 sb4
here the new board is 4
that's basically it. from here you can do a testboard or just setkey on and bring the whole dom up. When you do a setkeyswitch on, it runs a testboard against all the system boards anyways. But some ppl just prefer to run it standalone before bringing their dom all the way up. If testboard fails, it will just bring up ur dom minus whatever was bad on the new board.
good luck
z28sarefun
MIS
Great post coohand, just to add some experiences we had:
We got 2 new boards from Sun for our 3800s (to supplement the originals). We flash updated one of the old boards with what was on the new one and it was junk. Domain wouldn't boot after that. We had to flash all three boards (2 new and one old) with the remaining old one that still has the old flash on it.
Just be careful when flashing, using the old flash version on the new boards like coohand says is the safest bet. Luckily our machines were not even close to being production at the time so we could try stuff.
Also, don't leave the coverplate/filler panel out for too long without inserting the new board, the machine will shut itself down as a self-protection. Apparently the airflow is corrupted if there's just an open hole.
HTH
Brian
We got 2 new boards from Sun for our 3800s (to supplement the originals). We flash updated one of the old boards with what was on the new one and it was junk. Domain wouldn't boot after that. We had to flash all three boards (2 new and one old) with the remaining old one that still has the old flash on it.
Just be careful when flashing, using the old flash version on the new boards like coohand says is the safest bet. Luckily our machines were not even close to being production at the time so we could try stuff.
Also, don't leave the coverplate/filler panel out for too long without inserting the new board, the machine will shut itself down as a self-protection. Apparently the airflow is corrupted if there's just an open hole.
HTH
Brian
z28sarefun, normally the newer firmware is better. the problem you had was most likely because you guys only updated the firmware on the system boards but not the IO boats, repeater boards, and SCs. maybe things would've gone smoother if the entire platform was updated. now i have seen platforms with newer firmware up and running with old firmware on an SB, but I dont' think it works the other way around where one SB has newer firmware than the entire platform.
And you're right about the air baffle. They mention it in all the docs and they even have a little sticker to remind you that you have 60 secs if u leave a sb slot empty before the platform powers down. However, I've never seen this happen (then again, the env i did board swaps in were pretty cold). as for the T3s tho, now i know those guys shut themselves down if a disk slot remains empty for too long.
but just to be safe, make sure that yellow pastic panel is in place (or don't remove the filler panel) till you're ready to insert the new SB.
And you're right about the air baffle. They mention it in all the docs and they even have a little sticker to remind you that you have 60 secs if u leave a sb slot empty before the platform powers down. However, I've never seen this happen (then again, the env i did board swaps in were pretty cold). as for the T3s tho, now i know those guys shut themselves down if a disk slot remains empty for too long.
but just to be safe, make sure that yellow pastic panel is in place (or don't remove the filler panel) till you're ready to insert the new SB.
z28sarefun
MIS
Yeah you are probably right, coohand. We actually tried using flashupdate to do the other types of boards. It's been a while, but I am guessing that the image on the SB wouldn't work with the SCs and IBs. 3800s don't have repeater boards. I guess there's flashupdates available from Sun, but we cheaped out and used the old flash version and it was ok. I'm sure the newer flash would have been better though.
Brian
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