Hi All,

I am new joinee to this forum and recently promoted as sun administrator from dba. I still dont know whether i can handle it fully :-) . My first task is to audit set of sun servers and findout what it is doing and whether it can be upgraded or decommissioned and if upgraded whether it can be brought into virtulisation farm. From my limited experience, I jotted down the below things which needs to be done. Just wanted experts thoughts on it.

1) serial number,model, patches,memory size,os version, application running,ports listening, any san connected.

is those list all or is there anything apart from that needs to be audited ?

Thanks for your time. Much appreciated.

Regards,
SD

Any input or suggestions please ?

Thanks
SD

Nearly all real servers are behind (a bit) on SW upgrades/patching, both for OS + services (eg Oracle, Apache etc).
Possibly any Apps as well

HW upgrades are different, but you need to check if they can be or not.
The ones that can't are presumably prime candidates for VM-ing eg Solaris zones.
There may well be licensing issues ie running on a VM vs running on metal.
Better make sure they are up to date....
Ditto support ctcs for everything (HW + SW).
Does your (manager's) definition of 'audit' include security?

There are political & legal issues involved in a proper audit ... you're going to have to start thinking in those terms, I'm afraid.

Hi Chris, Thanks for your time and points, yes Security is not spoken at this point, but i believe it will be brought it once we develop more into this.
Which will be the best place to look for licensing issues running Solaris in VM and metal? any pointers ?
i know few of the political issues which might arise, anything specific that you suggest which might need to be taken care first ?

Thanks again,

SD

thanks for sharing

The people who issue them ie Oracle (nee SUN)