Outline of Criteria for entry into Solaris Ready Program for Power Supply Devices

Goals of the Program include qualifying products for the Solaris Ready Program, promoting customer awareness, and enabling identification and selection of high quality add-on products for Sun's platform customers.

A external Power Supply devices consists of Universal Power Supply (UPS)products. Sun's Solaris Ready Program shall add the additional criteria to qualify external power supply products.

Company Criteria:

1. Channel distribution, service and support in geographies worldwide.
2. Ability to provide vendor updates.
3. Agreement to support newer versions of the Solaris OS in a timely manner (where applicable).
4. Purchase Sun platforms for the development and support of the Solaris OS.

Product Criteria:

1. Meet the Solaris Ready Platform Support, Installation Criteria, Diagnostics, Additional Criteria as listed below.
2. Include appropriate cables as required.
3. Ensure documentation describes installation.
4. Documentation for updates and patches on company website or CD-ROM.
5. Include sufficient packaging materials and other materials unique to the product.
6. Mechanical and electrical compliance criteria as required for targeted sales geographies.
7. Card installation and identification.

Product Support:

1. Make pre-sales specification and product information available on line.
2. Provide product warranty and technical support information.

Platform Support:

1. Specified product must maintain the platform operable and the Solaris OS on all Sun platforms, or identified in documentation for specific target platform issues.
2. The duty cycle shall be applicable for the product type for the duration of the battery backup.

Installation Criteria:

1. System V Package Installation Format using pkgadd(1M) and pkgrm(1M) utilities as required by products.
2. Boot Verification with device attached to Solaris OS platform.
3. Solaris DDI Compliance of device drivers.
4. Power Management (such as Energy Star) as applicable.
5. Interoperability with other peripheral devices.

Diagnostics:

1. Self Diagnostic to isolate failure.
2. User level diagnostic for end user use.

Additional Criteria:

1. Complete the Basic Test section of the the following test plans as applicable to the specific product technology for a specified external power requirements.

Solaris Ready Compatibility Test Plan for UPS Products

2. Functional tests of the Solaris Ready test plan, with trim to on battery, on-battery to trim, and blackouts at 30 degree phase angles. Brownouts at 40% and 70% as applicable to the specific product technology under test.