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Vlegaspi
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 How to Determine Age of Solaris Box?
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How can I find out how old my Solaris machine is? It was suggested to look at the files in /etc/ and simply pick the oldest date. But wouldn't some dates represent the OS version, and may not necessarily be as new as the box itself? Or is this a good enough measure? Any better techniques? Is there a "howoldami" command?

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ASKED: January 27, 2005  12:38 PM
UPDATED: January 28, 2005  6:23 PM
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"howoldami" would be nice.... Seriously though... What is the model number/name on the box Sparc 1, Sparc 10, -> 10-15 years old Sparc Classic, Sparc 5 -> 5-10 years old SuperSparc 5, etc. roughly 5 years, give or take Does it use SCSI or IDE hard drives? Unless it's a serious server, most Solaris boxes in the last 5+ years have used IDE How much memory does it have vs. is capable of holding? This has also been scaling up over the years What is the hard drive capacity - also scaling up over the years. The Model name/number is still the best determinant. Bob
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Oh, sorry… I forgot to mention the make/models/OS levels. I have 7 servers. They’re a mix of:

SUN Fire-3800 (Solaris 8)
SUN Ultra-250 (Solaris 7 & 8)
SUN UltraAX-i2 (Solaris 8 & 9)
SUN Fire-V120 (Solaris 8)

TIA!
Verna

Vlegaspi
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I should have thought of this before

Call a Sun sales rep.

Bob

Bobkberg
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The Sun System Handbook available at sunsolve.sun.com gives the first Customer Ship Dates(FCS) for most of the newwer hardware:

SUN Fire-3800 (Solaris 8) FCS Date April 16, 2001
SUN Ultra-250 (Solaris 7 & 8)??? Enterprise250???
FCS Date July 1998
SUN UltraAX-i2 (Solaris 8 & 9) This looks like a board level product????
SUN Fire-V120 (Solaris 8) FCS Date June 2002

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