Solved: How to take XSCF snapshot of M-Series server running Solaris

In this post we will see how to take XSCF snapshot of an M-Series server

Save snapshot on different server

• First create a user "test" in OS of server in which you want to save snapshot.
• Next login to XSCF of server whose snapshot you want to take.
• Take snapshot by giving IP of destination server on which you want to save the data using the below syntax.

  snapshot -LF -t username@serverip:/full_path_to_data_location -k download

Here is an example. We created test user in 192.168.99.10 destination server, and snapshot will be saved in it's /var/tmp directory.

XSCF> snapshot -LF -t test@192.168.99.10:/var/tmp -k download

Save snapshot on same server.

If you want to save snapshot on same server of which you are collecting snapshot use below steps.

• Login to XSCF and check the DSCP config to know the IP of each domain.

XSCF> showdscp

DSCP Configuration:

Network: 10.1.1.0
Netmask: 255.255.255.0

Location Address
---------- ---------
XSCF 10.1.1.1
Domain #00 10.1.1.2
Domain #01 10.1.1.3
Domain #02 10.1.1.4
Domain #03 10.1.1.5

• Check the running domain

XSCF> showdomainstatus -a
DID Domain Status
00 Running
01 -
02 -
03 -

• Ping to ensure you can connect to the network

  XSCF> ping 10.1.1.2
  
  PING 10.1.1.2 (10.1.1.2): 56 data bytes
  64 bytes from 10.1.1.2: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.1 ms
  64 bytes from 10.1.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.0 ms

• Take snapshot after creating a user on the OS.

  XSCF> snapshot -LF -t test@10.1.1.2:/var/tmp -k download