checking system parameters before upgrading to 11.0

[Mark Vollmers]

I'm planning on going to 11.0 from 10.20 (I know, new install as opposed to doing an upgrade). However, our machine is a few years old, and before I shell out the money for 11.0, I want to be sure that our system can run it. Looking at the compatability requirements, I know the minimum cpu, speed, firmware, etc. How can I find this info on the server? From the 'model' command, I got '9000/810/D280', so I have the model type. What about the other stuff. I wasn't around when we bought it, so I'm not sure what's there. Any ideas? Thanks!

Mark

[federico_3]

About the CPU speed :
acho itick_per_tick/D|adb -k /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem | tail -1| awk '{print $2/10000}'
About the memory ( in MBs):
echo physmem/D| adb -k /stand/vmunix /dev/kmem | tail -1 | awk '[print $2/256}'

federico

[Vincent Stedema]

Mark,

Use stm or xstm for info on the firmware-levels.

Vincent

[Vincenzo Restuccia]

For CPU and Firmware:
echo "selclass qualifier cpu; info; wait; il" | cstm
For ram:
echo "selclass qualifier memory;info;wait;infolog"|cstm

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi Mark,
I have some D220 and D230 running HPUX11, and have installed HPUX11 on a E35... so you shouldnt have any trouble with a D280 (PA8000?..)
Just be sure to have a minimum of 256MB of RAM to be comfortable...

Good luck

Victor

[Victor BERRIDGE]

Hi again,
While looking for something else,I fell on this doc of interest for you...

http://docs.hp.com/cgi-bin/fsearch/framedisplay?top=/hpux/onlinedocs/B3782-90807/B3782-90807_top.html&con=/hpux/onlinedocs/B3782-90807/00/00/10-con.html&toc=/hpux/onlinedocs/B3782-90807/00/00/10-toc.html&searchterms=B180l&queryid=20010412-074907

Best regards

Victor

[Mark Vollmers]

Hi, all. Federico, I ran those commands and got the cpu speed and memory, so I'm okay there. thanks.
Vincent, I tried the stm and xstm commands, and it said "sh: stm: not found" Do I need to go somewhere to find the file?
Vincenzo, it says that the cstm command is not found. Again, does this command need to be run under a certain folder?
Thanks for everyone's help so far. I'd never get these commands on my own.

Mark

[Patrick Wallek]

Mark,

stm will be in /usr/bin and cstm, xstm will be in /usr/sbin if they are on your machine. Since you are getting errors about commands not found, my guess is that you do not have Diagnostics installed. The ?stm commands are part of the Diagnostics package.

To find out CPU speed, etc. you can also go into SAM -> Performance Monitors -> System Properties and you will find the information you need as well.

I agree that you should be fine running 11.0 on a D280. It looks like the D280 will run either 32 or 64 bit as well.

[Mark Vollmers]

I don't think that I have the diagnostics installed (something that I will look at with the upgrade, since it would be nice). Any way to find the firmware since I don't have the diagnostics? I think that I should be okay (I have no real reason to think otherwise, and the server is only a couple years old), but I'd hate to get it and find out I need something else. That's how I got in this spot in the first place.

Mark