The Software Stack and How to Keep Your Sun System Up to Date With the Latest Software

Sun systems can run a variety of Operating Systems, software, firmware, drivers and applications. The combination, or set of these running on your Sun systems, can be referred to as the "Software Stack".

For example, a typical Software Stack for a Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 server might consist of the following components:

(Example Only)

• Operating System
  • Solaris 10 5/08 with these required patches:
    • Kernel patch 137111-08
    • FMA patch 127755-01
    • nxge driver patch 138048-05
    • n2cp driver patch 137291-01
• Firmware
  • System Firmware 7.2.0
• System Management
  • Sun Management Center 4.0 V5 Common Config Reader platform add-on
  • SNMP 1.6
  • Electronic Prognosis 1.0
• Virtualization
  • LDoms Manager 1.1
• Diagnostics
  • Sun VTS 7.0
• Layered Software, Applications and Tools
  • Sun Cluster 3.2
  • Sun Studio 12
  • GCC 4.0.4
• Sun Java Enterprise System 5 Update 1
  • Access Manager 7.1
  • Application Server 8.2
  • Directory Server 6.2
  • Web Server 7.0