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May 10, 2013 in Solaris 10 , Unix admin scripts , Zones
 
Lingeswaran R
Many of the Solaris administrators will break their head to find Solaris global zone name from  localzone. These kind
of questions may asked in interviews too.How do you find it ? The answer is No.There is no simple command to find Follow
it.Because Oracle (Sun microsystems  ) designed the Solaris zones in such a way for that, you can’t  find the global
zone from local zone due to security reason. But you can add cronjob to write the global zone name on all local zones
from global periodically to identify the global.

 
But there are some other alternatives that you can find the global zone name from local zone using MAC address.Here   
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Global-zone# zoneadm list -cv

ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP
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8 sol1 running /export/zone/sollz1 native shared
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Local-zone# arp -a|grep SP

e1000g0 192.168.56.130 255.255.255.255 SPLA 00:0c:29:5e:76:f5 WHAT’S HOT ?
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Login to IP 192.168.56.130 and type zonename.If the output global,then this is the global zone where that local zone is
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global
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How to see the global zone name in local zone permanently ?
There is a workaround to see global zone name in local zone permanently by adding one small script in global’s
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Add the below entries in root crontab of global zone.This will write the global zone name in all the local zones every
hour.you can check it in /etc/GLOBALZ file in all the local zones.
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00 * * * * /root/globalzonename.sh >/dev/null 2>&1
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Keep the “globalzonename.s”h in /root and make is executable. What is VMware vCloud ? How it
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Global-Zone# cat globalzonename.sh September 28, 2014
#!/usr/bin/bash

for i in `/usr/sbin/zoneadm list -v | /usr/bin/egrep -v "ID|global" |/usr/bin/awk ' { print $4 } '`; do echo `uname -n` > $i/root/etc/GLOBALZ; done
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Verifying our work after an hour,

Local-zone# cat /etc/GLOBALZ

sfos

If you want to find the zone type, you can just type “zonename” command.If its a global zone ,you will get output as
“global” otherwise you will get hostname.

How to identify the zone type ? whole root zone or sparse root zone ?
Use “pkgcond ‐n is_what”  command to determine the zone type. This command output shows the below values. (1=
True 0=False )

For local zone + whole root zone

is_global_zone=0
is_nonglobal_zone=1
is_sparse_root_nonglobal_zone=0

is_whole_root_nonglobal_zone=1

For local zone + Sparse root zone

is_global_zone=0
is_nonglobal_zone=1
is_sparse_root_nonglobal_zone=1

is_whole_root_nonglobal_zone=0

For Global zone

is_global_zone=1
is_nonglobal_zone=0
is_sparse_root_nonglobal_zone=0

is_whole_root_nonglobal_zone=0
Refer the here for more information about pkgcond use.

Thank you for reading this article.Please leave a  comment if you have any doubt.I will get back to you.

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2 comments
eahmedshendy
July 14, 2014 at 8:59 pm

Hi Lingeswaran R,
I just wonder, Why System Admin should need to know the name of global zone if it always has the name ‘global’ ?

I mean in Solaris 11, I don’t work with Solaris 10 before

Reply

Lingeswaran R
July 15, 2014 at 12:21 am

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July 15, 2014 at 12:21 am

Global zone name will be updated on the local zone not in global itself.If you connect local zone, you can easily
determine , the global zone name.

Regards
Lingeswaran
UnixArena.
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