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  Asked: Jan 27 2005   12:38 AM GMT
  Asked by: vlegaspi

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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Last Answered: Jan 27 2005  1:03 PM GMT  by bobkberg




"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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vlegaspi  |   Jan 27 2005  1:18PM GMT

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

 

bobkberg  |   Jan 27 2005  1:30PM GMT

I should have thought of this before

Call a Sun sales rep.

Bob

 

odd1atRSA  |   Jan 27 2005  1:51PM GMT

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

 

supoman  |   Jan 28 2005  6:23PM GMT

Just to echo the point that odd one made. You can check out the handbook here. It’ll tell you everything you want to know about a system:

<a href="http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/" rel="nofollow">http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/</a>