http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/?feed=BigAdmin-RSS Recently Updated or New content added to BigAdmin en Copyright 1994-2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc. Thu, 15 May 2008 09:17:14 -0700 contact.bigadmin@sun.com Thu, 15 May 2008 09:17:14 2008-05-15 On the Solaris Information Center you will find pointers to documentation and technical articles about Solaris system administration. This hub will provide lots of brand new information plus focused views of existing documentation. And you may see information here that you just have not found elsewhere. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/solaris_documentati&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Solaris+Information+Center 2008-05-15 This Sun xVM Hypervisor Overview discusses the Sun xVM hypervisor software on the x86 family of processor architectures, and virtual machine instances known as domains. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/sun_xvm_hypervisor_&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Sun+xVM+Hypervisor+Overview 2008-05-15 Part of the BigAdmin Patching Center - The Firmware Release hub provides firmware FAQs, information about available Sun firmware releases, and other resources to help you manage your Sun systems. * Frequently Asked Questions About Sun System Firmware * History of Sun Firmware Naming and Versioning * Feature History of SysFW 6.x and 7.x Major and Minor Releases for Sun CMT Systems * Firmware Release History per Platform for Sun Systems http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/sun_system_firmware&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Sun+System+Firmware+Release+Hub 2008-05-14 Patch installation utilities, patchadd and patchrm, have been modified to change the way that certain patches delivering features are handled. This modification affects the installation of these patches on any Solaris 10 release. These "deferred-activation" patches better handle the large scope of change delivered in feature patches. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/whats_new_in_patchi&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_What%27s+New+in+Patching 2008-05-13 Sun Connection is a portfolio of services that provides you with continually updated knowledge, automation and flexible tools to deploy, manage and track updates, so that you can manage risk and change. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/sun_connection_info&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Sun+Connection+Information+Hub 2008-05-13 These end-of-software-support announcements are current, as of the Solaris 10 5/08 Operating System. Also lists earlier Solaris 10 and Solaris 9 9/04 end-of-software statements. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/features_removed_fr_&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Features+Removed+From+the+Solaris+Operating+System 2008-05-13 Read BigAdmin content in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages. This will be our first step to provide more support for BigAdmin content in other languages. Please visit often and use the feedback tab to tell us what you think, which articles you'd like translated, and other suggestions. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/bigadmin_translatio&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_BigAdmin+Multilingual+Hub 2008-05-13 List of devices and device drivers supported on Solaris for x86. Shows PCI ID, Driver, Type, Vendor and more. List by release of Solaris and type of device. Updated for Solaris 10 5/08 http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/solaris_for_x86_dev&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Solaris+for+x86+Device+List 2008-05-12 This wiki page contains information and links to videos that describe Open Storage technologies. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/sun_open_storage_vi&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Sun+Open+Storage+Videos 2008-05-12 This page describes a method to access a Solaris partition from within Windows or Linux http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/how_to_access_a_sol&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_How+to+access+a+Solaris+partition+from+Windows+or+Linux 2008-05-12 GRUB, the open source GRand Unified Bootloader, has been used for years in Linux and various versions of BSD as the standard file system-aware boot loader for open source operating systems. GRUB's implementation in the Solaris OS is similar to the implementation in these other operating systems. One major difference in the Solaris OS implementation of GRUB is the ability to traverse a UFS, the standard file system used in the Solaris OS. The UFS code for GRUB was written by Sun and is available as open source via the OpenSolaris initiative. This article describes GRUB and its implementation for the Solaris Operating System on x86 Platforms. It provides a sequence of procedures that can be followed to customize a DVD using this framework. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/grub_and_the_solari__&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_GRUB+and+the+Solaris+Operating+System+on+x86+Platforms+-+A+Guide+to+Creating+a+Customized+Boot+DVD+%28pdf%29 2008-05-12 easySMF is a web based form that creates SMF Manifests that can easily plug into your system using 'svccfg import manifest.xml'. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/easysmf_at_opensola&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_easySMF+at+OpenSolaris.org 2008-05-12 You can use Sun Studio software with Intel's TBB, an open source runtime library that reduces the effort required to express parallelism in C++ programs. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/using_intels_thread&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Using+Intel%27s+Threading+Building+Blocks+With+Sun+Studio+12+Express 2008-05-08 This tech tip provides a procedure for resetting the admin password for Sun Java System Directory Server. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/resetting_the_admin&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Resetting+the+admin+Password+in+Sun+Java+System+Directory+Server 2008-05-07 This tech tip provides tips for setting up a DHCP client for the Solaris Operating System or Microsoft Windows XP with a DHCP server that runs either the Solaris 10 OS for SPARC platforms or Microsoft Windows 2003. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/setting_up_dhcp_cli&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Setting+Up+a+DHCP+Client+for+the+Solaris+10+OS+or+Microsoft+Windows 2008-05-07 This tech tip provides a recovery procedure that can be used when a meta database is accidentally destroyed or corrupted on a system that runs the Solaris 9 or 10 OS and Solaris Volume Manager. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/recover_system_when&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_System+Recovery+for+the+Solaris+OS+When+the+Meta+Database+Is+Deleted+Accidentally 2008-05-06 This document provides instructions for performing post-configuration tasks for deploying Sun Java System Directory Server 6.0 as a naming service. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/sun_java_system_dir___&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Sun+Java+System+Directory+Server+6.0+as+an+LDAP+Naming+Service:+Part+4+--+Post-Configuration+Tasks 2008-05-06 This document describes configuration of a Solaris client to use Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (Active Directory) for authentication and naming services. Updated May 2008. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/using_kerberos_to_a&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Using+Kerberos+to+Authenticate+a+Solaris+10+OS+LDAP+Client+With+Microsoft+Active+Directory 2008-05-06 A workaround for the Xorg server's failure to launch on the IBM x3850 M2 server. This workaround helps the Xorg server detect a PCI bus, which solves the problem. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/6668806_xorg_server&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_6668806:+Xorg+Server+Fails+to+Start+on+IBM+x3850+M2+Server 2008-05-06 This blueprint describes a Sun project that explored the use of Sun's CMT platform and the Logical Domains (LDoms) virtualization technology as a means to increase application software scalability and improve system utilization. Using LDoms software, multiple logical systems — each with its own operating system and each running an independent instance of the application software — are created on a single server. http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/jsp/descFile.jsp?url=descAll/using_logical_domai&feed=BigAdmin-recently_updated_Using+Logical+Domains+and+CoolThreads+Technology:+Improving+Scalability+and+System+Utilization+%28Blueprint%29