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Utility Tools for Management of Solaris Containers

Lei Liu, September 2005

This document explains how management service or solution providers, architects, data center administrators, and performance engineers can utilize the Solaris platform's built-in utility tools to manage Solaris Zones partitioning technology.

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Contents:

• Introduction
• Background
• Solution Description
• Zone Service Discovery
• Zone Instance Discovery
• Monitoring Zone Instances
• User Count Statistics
• Zone Statistics Report
• A General System Activity Reporter
• Zone CPU Monitoring
• Zone Process Monitoring
• Virtual Memory Statistics
• Swap Statistics
• I/O Statistics
• Using iostat to Generate Partition and Device Statistics
• Disk Usage
• Inode Usage on the File System
• Network Interface
• Network Statistics
• IPC Status
• System Contract
• Resource Management
• Project Process Monitoring
• Resource Utilization With Cap Enforcement
• Using rcapstat to Report Cap and Project Information
• DRP Resource Management
• Producing Multiple Reports at Specific Interval
• Reporting Resource Set Statistics
• Extended Accounting Facility
• Conclusion

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