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| From SysOp 31 Jul > |
Find out about the quest for a uniform interface for driver administration through the dladm command. This article elaborates on the administrative features provided by OpenSolaris Project Brussels.
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| From SysOp 30 Jul > |
The latest update of the Hardware Certification Test Suite is v4.1. With the HCTS, you can certify x86 systems and components that work with Solaris. Certified products can be included in the HCL. |
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| From SysOp 29 Jul > |
Sys admins for hire. Get expert assistance by the hour from the BigAdmin community. Check out the profiles, ratings, and going rates.
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| From SysOp 28 Jul > |
Here's a blog on running OpenSolaris 2008.05 under VirtualBox on OS X Leopard (on a MacBook Pro).
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| From SysOp 25 Jul > |
Check out this article: Top Ten DTrace (D) Scripts. The article introduces several scripts that helped the author debug and solve problems on servers running the Solaris 10 OS.
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| From SysOp 24 Jul > |
Here's a series of blogs on Solaris performance monitoring tools, such as the Tools CD and the DTrace toolkit. The Solaris Performance Primer blog promises to help "the unpatient ones who want to solve 90% of the day-to-day performance issues without long studies." |
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| From SysOp 23 Jul > |
Roch Bourbonnais blogs on an upcoming feature in ZFS: write throttling. Find out why he says "it's a change you should be eager for."
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| From SysOp 22 Jul > |
In his blog, Roman Shaposhnik deconstructs OpenSolaris 2008.05. Here's what he says of the Live CD of OpenSolaris: "We now have a brand new frog to dissect and marvel at."
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| From SysOp 18 Jul > |
The Patch Corner blog lists the Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Kernel PatchID Sequences. Solaris 10 Kernel PatchID Sequence were already in a previous posting. |
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| From SysOp 17 Jul > |
Wanna make your backups and restores run screaming fast? This article shows how to tune the performance of tape drives by determining the optimal block size to use during backups and restores.
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| From SysOp 16 Jul > |
A little insurance never hurts...This tech tip shows how to boot from the clone of a ZFS snapshot. Then you can use snapshots to ensure your system remains bootable even when an upgrade goes wrong.
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| From SysOp 15 Jul > |
Check out this article from the community. Here's a slick way to assign new system resources, such as file systems and raw devices, from the global zone to a non-global zone in the Solaris 10 OS, without rebooting.
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| From SysOp 14 Jul > |
Does your zone resource control sometimes seem out of control? This tech tip can help you set up resource control for zones directly, for example, by controlling the computing resources a zone uses, as well as the amount of swap space a zone uses.
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| From SysOp 11 Jul > |
A new article shows how to use Solaris Containers technology to upgrade your system to the Solaris 10 release from an earlier Solaris release.
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| From SysOp 10 Jul > |
The BigAdmin Firmware Release hub provides firmware FAQs, information about available Sun firmware releases, and other stuff to help you manage your Sun systems. And check out the rest of our Patches hub. |
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| From SysOp 09 Jul > |
Need to set up DHCP? Here are tips on deploying a DHCP client for the Solaris OS or for Microsoft Windows XP, using a DHCP server that runs either the Solaris 10 OS for SPARC platforms or Microsoft Windows 2003. |
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| From SysOp 08 Jul > |
Oops...need to recover a system after accidentally destroying or corrupting the meta database? This community-submitted tech tip provides a recovery procedure that can be used on a system running the Solaris 9 or 10 OS and Solaris Volume Manager. |
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| From SysOp 07 Jul > |
So you wanna write Solaris device drivers? This article focuses on providing drivers for the Solaris OS, with information about the Solaris kernel architecture in general and device drivers in particular. Also included is a minimal skeleton driver.
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| From SysOp 04 Jul > |
This new wiki tech tip comes from the community. Here's a method for reading data from or writing data to Solaris partitions from within Microsoft Windows or Linux. |
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| From SysOp 03 Jul > |
Need to patch the Solaris 10 OS on an inactive boot environment when the active boot environment runs the Solaris 8 or 9 OS? Don't try to use Solaris Live Upgrade, because it won't work! This tech tip describes Solaris Live Upgrade restrictions, and it provides examples of upgrading from the Solaris 8 or 9 release to Solaris 10.
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| From SysOp 02 Jul > |
Find out how to create a shutdown account using sudo to facilitate powering down a machine. This could be particularly helpful for non-computer users that need an easy way to properly shut down a machine. This short tech tip from the community is on the BigAdmin wiki.
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| From SysOp 01 Jul > |
In a fix? Need to reset the admin password for Sun Java System Directory Server? This tech tip offers an answer.
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