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August 2007
From SysOp 31 Aug > Don't miss this support information about Sun Explorer Data Collector (diagnostic data collection software) and Solaris Live Upgrade (showing minimum patch requirements for this software).
From SysOp 30 Aug > Here's some great info on patches from Sun Support: Sun Software Update (Patch) Access Policy, How to Get Sun Software Patches Without Anonymous FTP Server, and Signed Patches FAQ for PatchPro 2.1.
From SysOp 29 Aug > Sun Shared Shell is a collaborative service tool that allows -- under your control -- Sun Services engineers to remotely diagnose your Sun products.
From SysOp 28 Aug > A reader submitted these steps for building an OpenSSH 4.3p2 on the Solaris 8 OS. With these, you shouldn't have to install additional packages, create and link startup scripts, generate host keys, or edit SSH configuration files on every system.
From SysOp 27 Aug > Watch Rob Thurlow's wicked clear explanation and demo of mirror mounts (automatic automounter maps) and referrals (multi-server namespaces), two extensions to NFSv4 being developed at Sun labs. Well worth your time.
From SysOp 24 Aug > The Sun Configuration Diagrams provide the ability to quickly document a Sun system configuration. The latest updates include M-series servers.
From SysOp 23 Aug > New version of Todd Johnson's sys_diag utility for off-site performance and configuration analysis. New version has better usability, more options, and more examples. Also check out Todd's blog.
From SysOp 22 Aug > The Sun BluePrints article 'Sun N1 Grid Engine Software and the Tokyo Institute of Technology Super Computer Grid (pdf)' describes how Sun Grid Engine 6 was used in the TSUBAME supercomputer.
From SysOp 21 Aug > IBM is going to distribute the Solaris OS and Solaris Subscriptions for select x86-based IBM System x servers and BladeCenter servers. Find out what's going on.
From SysOp 20 Aug > Sun Eco Initiative Launch, August 21, 2007, will unveil new offers, programs, and services to help improve data center efficiency and utilization so you can manage and reduce the environmental impact of computing.
From SysOp 17 Aug > Are you ready for 2007/2008 Tech Days? Sun's Worldwide Developer Conference is coming soon. The first few events are in Boston, Massachusetts (September 11-12, 2007), Rome, Italy (September 24-25), and Milan, Italy (September: 26-28).
From SysOp 16 Aug > Check out the articles in Simplified Chinese and Japanese on BigAdmin's Multilingual Hub.
From SysOp 15 Aug > A Sun Net Talk on Microsoft Interoperability (Year 3) includes customer success stories and online demos.
From SysOp 14 Aug > This SDN article uses a fictitious health-care insurance company to show how Sun Java System Access Manager can secure web applications and services with authentication, single sign-on, and authorization.
From SysOp 13 Aug > WSRP... it's not the call letters for a radio station, it stands for Web Services for Remote Portlets. Find out how to administer WSRP in Sun Java System Portal Server 7.1 here.
From SysOp 10 Aug > Here's help from the community: A BigAdmin reader sent in steps for increasing the size of a file system using the Linux Logical Volume Manager (LVM).
From SysOp 09 Aug > Check out the updates to our article What's New in Patching. Sun's patching tools have changed to handle large patches, and some patch numbers have changed as well.
From SysOp 08 Aug > A BigAdmin reader offers a template for Korn shell scripts and explains the techniques used in the template.
From SysOp 07 Aug > A massively threaded server on a chip, the UltraSPARC T2 processor has 8 cores capable of handling 8 concurrent threads each. That's a total of 64 threads in most time zones. Not only that, but more speed, more ports, more cache, more features than the T1 processor. Watch Jonathan Schwartz, David Yen, and others describe it here.
From SysOp 06 Aug > You know the PostgreSQL logo is an elephant. Find out from this article why the PostgreSQL 8.2 features in OpenSolaris are huge.
From SysOp 03 Aug > Sun's security page has been updated with a lot of usable content about security, written by Sun engineers. It's consolidating information about security from several different sources, and will be updated with news and fresh content.
From SysOp 02 Aug > This FAQ has answers to questions on patching in general, patching in single-user mode or multiuser mode, and patches and rebooting.
From SysOp 01 Aug > Does your CEO blog about SysAdmin Day? Ours does! And we sure were happy when he did. Check it out!
 
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