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Initial Setup |
This chapter describes the initial setup of the Sun Ray system:
Note - To view any of the specific commands for Sun Ray system, type:
% man -a -M /opt/SUNWut/man command
or type:
% setenv MANPATH=/opt/SUNWut/man
followed by
% man command
After installing the Sun Ray server software on your server, you need to configure the Sun Ray interconnect fabric for the network interface card you have installed (see "Configuring the Sun Ray Interconnect Fabric" on page 62). The default sets up 225 possible appliance connections per interface. The actual sessions are not created until appliances are connected into the Sun Ray interconnect fabric, so choosing the default does not use up space or degrade performance.
At the factory, a version of the firmware is loaded into the Sun Ray 1 enterprise appliances. When an appliance is connected, the firmware in the appliance is automatically changed to the version of the firmware on the server if the versions are different. To ensure that all the units have the same firmware, you can run the utfwadm command (see "PROM Version Management" on page 71).
The Sun Ray 1 appliances are smart card ready. The default authorization protocol presents every user with a Solaris dtlogin screen and uses the regular Solaris login of userid and password. The default protocol accepts any valid smart card and creates a session for the user. The smart card user is also prompted with a Solaris dtlogin screen.
To add users to the Solaris system, use regular Solaris methods.
The default key sequence for the Settings screen display is Shift+Props on the Sun keyboard. See "Defining Desktop Properties" on page 80, for instructions on how to change the default key sequence.
Run the utadm command to configure the network interface card (NIC), the DHCP service for the interconnect fabric, and the Sun Ray log management function. The default DHCP setup configures each interface for 225 hosts and uses private network addresses for the Sun Ray interconnect fabric. When you configure the interconnect fabric, the version of the firmware on the appliances is automatically changed to version of the firmware on the server if the versions are different.
Note - The Sun Ray server software works with other products that use DHCP.
Note - If you have just installed the Ethernet controller, remember to boot the server with the -r flag so that the system looks for the new interface and creates the appropriate device files.
Note - For information on configuring interfaces, IP addresses, and DHCP data for the failover feature, refer to the Sun Ray Enterprise Server Software 1.1 Advanced Administrator's Guide. If the IP addresses and DHCP configuration data are not set up properly at the time the interfaces are configured, the failover feature will not work properly.
If you are using Alternate Pathing (AP) netgroup on an Enterprise 10000, your interface name must be the same as your AP metanetwork name. For additional information refer to Sun Ray Enterprise Server Software 1.1 Advanced Administrator's Guide or a Sun support representative.
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To Configure the Interconnect |
For information on Failover feature configuration, see the Sun Ray Enterprise Server Software 1.1 Advanced Administrator's Guide.
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| Some interface names are hme[0-9], qfe[0-9], or gem[0-9]. |
For example:
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If the default values are unacceptable, respond n and enter new values. A dialog similar to the following will be displayed. In the dialog below, the network is changed from 192.168.128 to 192.168.129 and configured for maximum of 14 sessions.
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The remaining output should be similar (but may vary slightly) to the following:
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| 2. | Reboot the server and power cycle the appliances. |
Note - You can type utadm -p to list the current interface configuration.
Because there are many sessions on one server, the maximum number of processes per user (maxuprc) and number of terminals (pt_cnt) need to be increased from the default Solaris levels. Set the pt_cnt value to the maximum number of users multiplied by the average number of terminal windows per user (for example, software developers use 8-10 terminal windows). When you run the utadm command to configure the interconnect fabric, a message tells you to increase these numbers if they are low.
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To Set System Parameters |
| 1. | In /etc/system, as root, use a text editor to set these parameters. For example:
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| 2. | Reboot the system. |
| Your Sun Ray system is ready to use. If you want to use any authentication policy other than the default, see "Choosing an Authentication Policy" on page 74. See "Adding and Deleting Users" on page 140 to add users in a way that conforms with the policy you have chosen. |