please , I need an urgent help.
I reinstalled our server Sun X4150. What was changed:
our two disks were changed to raid1 and I installed a never version of Solaris 10 (previously the version from 12/2009 was used, now a version from 03/2010).
what I'm surprised, the hostID changed. now please explain me what should I do when we have a signalware communication cards licenses generated on hostID which now doesn't work. I repeat again, HW didn't change.
You could contact your software company and have them update the license with the new hostid or if you have backups of the old server, this may work:
for X86 solaris - Description:
If an installation fails or is aborted, subsequent installations are
likely to get a hardware serial number (hostid) of zero. This makes
the machine unable to use many software licensing methods.
Work Around:
Workaround: Delete the contents of /kernel/misc before re-installing
(so your workaround may be to find the old /kernel/misc info and restore it...or just parts of it)
in x86 machines the hostid is generated randomly during installation. you need a tool from sun to change the id to a value you need... open a call and get the tool you need to do this.