How to run Oracle Explorer on Sun Solaris 11

In this post I will explain how to run Oracle Explorer file on Solaris 11 operating system. Explorer files are used as a snapshot when we need to check all hardware issues or internal issue. The explorer files keeps all these information.

Oracle SUN Solaris explorer is a collection of scripts and binary executable files which collect all information and creates a detailed snapshot of Oracle Sun Solaris system configurations.

Oracle Sun Solaris Explorer is always installed on Global zone using root user which are running only Sun Sparc system and Solaris X86 systems as well as we are gathers information related to drivers, patches, recent system event history, and log file entries from the Oracle Explorer Data Collector output.

Before moving to run the explorer files we need to understand which packages is required to installed and configure the explorer files.

1. First we need to download the Service tools bundle from any ftp servers and extract them and run the script with extension syntax.

# ./install_stb.sh -ext

2. In this step we will uncompressed and untar the Explorer tar file using below command.

# cd /var/tmp/stb/extract/Explorer

# uncompress Explorer.tar.Z

# tar xvf Explorer.tar

3. In this step we will install Explorer packages and create directories "SUNWexplo" and "SUNWexplu" to install the required packages.

# pkgadd -d . SUNWexplo SUNWexpl

4. Now we will run the explorer command to obtained the logs files from the Sun Solaris system.

  #explorer

  

Normally on Solaris server the default location to run the above command is /usr/sbin/explorer which create & send the explorer log file.

If you want the create default configuration file only first time please use the below syntax.

  # explorer -g 

If you want to check explorer version please run the below command.

  # explorer -V

        

Normally in most of the Solaris server the default path of the explorer output is /var/explorer/output but it depends where you installed the Explorer.