Solaris 10 and multi-installs of SPS 5.1

Is there a way to install 2 SPS 5.1 Master Servers on the same Solaris 10 global zone?
We tried to use the pkgroot workaround that Sun Professional Services provided for Solaris 8, but Solaris 10 ignored the ksh commands. So, we created a full root zone and installed the 2nd SPS 5.1 Master Server there successfully.
Now, we want to test SPS 6.0, but must first prove it performs at least as well if not better than SPS 5.1. To do that, we must provide monitoring data from the full root zone during checkins and deploys. However, we have just learned that our OVO does not support monitoring Solaris 10 zones.
So, we are back to square one. How to install SPS 5.1 2x on the same Solaris 10 global zone.
Thanks,
Mike

IGNORE ABOVEIt has been fixed, so I do run Hardware RAID-1 with Solaris 10.
But I wonder if there is any way to see disk health from Solaris ? Without entering BIOS each time.
Today when pull a disk out, Solaris does not say anything. This is dangerous. What happen if one disk fails and Solaris does not tell ???
raidctl does not say anything, I dont think it works for my controller (http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/systems/details/806.html)
dmesg and var/adm/messages does not show anything either.
Thank you!

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Hi,
I have severals problems too installing soalris 11.1 in multiboot environment(3 hard disks on pc)
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Solaris 10 x86 Installation on Toshiba Tecra M1

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problem 1 is that it's looking for ../../s0.. Which I
managed to
fake out by creating the dir in the same mount
point.
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must
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images.
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#include <string.h>
#include <malloc.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main( void )
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Hi,
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#include <stdlib.h>
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size = sizeof( buf );The size you get here is the size of buf, which is the size of a pointer, not the size of what buf points to. sizeof(*buf) would give you size of a char, the type (not the object) that buf points to.
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I have installed the agent 10 or 15 times and one installation hasfailed, no error appeared during the installation but I am havinginconsistent issues with my ethernet card not working here and there. Werebooted and can log into Novell client but th

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>>>
From: Andy_DeWees<[email protected] du>
To:novell.support.zenworks.endpoint-security-management
Date: 2/5/2009 12:52 PM
Subject: I have installed the agent 10 or 15 times and one installation hasfailed, no error appeared during the installation but I am havinginconsistent issues with my ethernet card not working here and there. Werebooted and can log into Novell client but the login prompt did not appearfor ESM client or the icon was not in the systray. Everything seems towork, besides at times (a couple times today) it terminates his ethernetcard/connection. I would re-image his computer but he has severalapplications and
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Serenityvalley wrote:
You need to go to This Page and download just about everything on it -espeically the System Update Deployment Guide and start reading. It'll take you a few hours to learn what you need to do and implement it if you are familar with editing system registeries and you have some luck and everything goes well.
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TI ending with message An error occurred while gathering user information is reported when running under Vista SP2 -- TI will not run in SP2.
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I just did a clean install of a Vista64 system on my T500 and after installing the first few drivers manually (including drivers for harddisk and ethernet) let Thin Installer install the remaining 36 items for me. The only item left to fix was the known bug in the Ricoh 4 in 1 card driver SU installation. (For a clean install you need to run TI or SU more than once, it doesn't find all drivers the first time.)
Message Edited by JaneL on 05-08-2009 10:30 PM
Message Edited by zilla on 2009-05-28 12:48 PM
T500: Vista 32, 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, 15.4" 1680x1050, 500GB 7200rpm, ATI Radeon HD3650 + Intel 4500MHD. T42: XP, 1.7GHz, 2GB RAM, 14.1" 1024x768, 250GB PATA, ATI Radeon 7500.

koolzero wrote:
When I start TI after I pointed it to my repository I get a message that no packages applicable were found. I did not download all the updates just a few to test it, will it not work unless all updates are downloaded?
Did you change status from test to active in UR before downloading? If not you can change the downloaded items in the manage repository menu.
Assuming the items you did download were not already installed on your client with TI it should work.
Message Edited by zilla on 2009-05-06 10:23 PM
T500: Vista 32, 2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, 15.4" 1680x1050, 500GB 7200rpm, ATI Radeon HD3650 + Intel 4500MHD. T42: XP, 1.7GHz, 2GB RAM, 14.1" 1024x768, 250GB PATA, ATI Radeon 7500.

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