Vol. 6 No. 9, September 2007 View Archive  |   Update Your Profile  |   Subscribe to the BigAdmin Newsletter BIGNEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS The BigAdmin Newsletter is a monthly email informing system administrators and developers of the latest events, news, resources, and information available on BigAdmin and the Solaris Developer Center. » New BigAdmin Wiki Here's a quicker way to publish your BigAdmin content and still get BigAdmin Bucks. You can also comment on BigAdmin articles and read the comments others have posted. » Discontinuance of Patch Manager 2.0 Patch Manager 2.0 will no longer be available after Tuesday, September 4, 2007. Users of Solaris 8 and 9 OS need to upgrade to Sun Connection Update Manager. Contact: patchpolicy@sun.com Please refer to the following documents for details: Doc. ID 81418: SunSolve Online Help Getting Started with Sun Connection's Update Manager Download Sun Connection Update Manager Patch Manager 2.0 FAQs » Interoperability Resources for System Administrators on BigAdmin Need to know what products are compatible with the Solaris OS, or how Java technology interoperates with the Microsoft .NET 3.0 framework? Check out this new site. » More Technical Content on BigAdmin Multilingual Hub Simplified Chinese Japanese » Can Your x86 System Run the Solaris 10 8/07 OS? Solaris Operating System for x86 Installation Check Tool, version 1.3, reports quickly whether your x86 system is likely to be able to run the Solaris 10 8/07 release. » Lots of Information on Using Sun Connection Sun Connection Wiki on Using Update Manager Speeding Up Baseline Downloads With Sun Connection Organizing Your Assets With the Sun Connection Inventory Channel Registering Your Assets With the Sun Connection Inventory Channel Getting Started With the Sun Connection Satellite Python API Best Practices for Downloading SunSolve Patches for Sun Connection 1.1.1 » Installing and Configuring Sun Java System Calendar Server 6.3 With Sun Cluster 3.1 Software Here's how to set up a two-node, asymmetric, high-availability cluster for Sun Java System Calendar Server on SPARC platforms. TECHIE TOOLBOX Miscellaneous The Techie Toolbox often features scripts and content submitted by members of the BigAdmin community and may not be appropriate for all organizations. » archive.ksh (Archive Files) Here's a script that performs archival of files in a directory according to the given selection criteria (a combination of month, year and file name). » Snapshot (UFS) The submitter wrote the script to be run originally from cron. You can use it to have a snapshot of the root directory always available on your workstation. » Snapshot (ZFS) With this script, you can have a snapshot of the root directory ('/') always available on your workstation. Based on the original Snapshot (UFS) script. » Simple Versioning (take.pl) This is a simplistic script to create copies of specific files under a VERSION subdirectory (should it exist), creating an easy file history. COMMUNITY » Update the Webmin Tool to Manage the Solaris 10 OS Securely Over HTTPS See how to update the open source Webmin system administration tool so that you can use the latest version over HTTPS to manage your systems securely. » Real-World Tests of Sun Fire V480 and T2000 Servers Running Oracle 10g RAC Database BigAdmin readers describe the performance of Sun Fire V480 and T2000 servers running Oracle 10g RAC for a web site with half a million transactions every day. » Automatically Save Script Output Using tee and nohup Utilities A reader sent in these tech tips, each showing an easy way to automatically start a script and save its output. Script Using nohup Script Using tee » Changing a Host Name or IP Address on the Solaris OS Here's a tech tip from a reader describing two methods for changing the host name and IP address, using the sys-unconfig command or editing files. » Kannel Setup for Solaris Cluster 3.2 Software With the Solaris 10 OS This community-submitted article shows how to install and configure the open source Kannel 1.4.0 gateway software running on the Solaris 10 OS for SPARC platforms. » Help Out the Community, and Help Yourself to Goodies You can submit links to useful resources, or your own scripts, tech tips, and articles. Use your rewards for an all-in-one-tool and other gifts. DEVELOPER CORNER Using the Solaris DTrace Utility With Open MPI Applications See how to use the Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) utility. Contents include checking the mpirun privileges, simple MPI tracing, tracking down resource leaks, and more. Sun Datapath Policies for Disks and Disk Arrays In this document, the software considered includes drivers for Solaris 9 OS and later, and management applications that issue SCSI, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI commands. 12 on 12 Questions Submitted by Developers The Sun Studio engineers answer questions about the latest release. Java Management Extensions Interoperation With Non Java Technologies (pdf) This article on JMX looks at interoperability with environments that are not built on the Java platform, using JSR 262 technology. User Authentication on the Solaris OS, Part 2: Introduction to PAM Learn to use Pluggable Authentication Modules for user authentication, which decouples the authentication mechanism from the application. Using DTrace to Demystify Watchpoints in Sun Studio Software This article looks at how to use the watchpoint facility in the Sun Studio dbx debugger. The dbx debugger can be used for both source-level and instruction-level debugging. A Tutorial on Applying Web-Service Security to EJB Applications Find out how to use Sun Java System Access Manager and other tools to secure web services that are based on Enterprise JavaBeans technology. PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT » Solaris 10 8/07 OS Released The Solaris 10 8/07 release has enhancements in areas such as network throughput and open source database technologies. Now includes Solaris Containers for Linux applications. » Save the Date Solaris Express Developer Edition 9/07 Announcement: September 24, 2007 Sun Systems Launch: October 9, 2007 » Shared Shell - Collaborative Remote Access Sun Shared Shell is a collaborative service tool that allows -- under your control -- Sun Services engineers to remotely diagnose your Sun products. » N1 Service Provisioning System 6.0 Available Create SPS artifacts in a rich NetBeans IDE for faster plugin development. Download the N1 SPS Modeler NetBeans Module. » Storage Utilities in Practice: ZFS Snapshot to Amazon S3 This SDN article compares the cost of local disk backup solutions to that of off-site storage utilities. » Troubleshooting the Message Transfer Agent for Sun Java System Messaging Server This article describes how to troubleshoot the MTA, specifically for message buildup in channels. » Migrating JKS Keystore Entries to NSS Database in Sun Java System Web Server Meena Vyas blogs about the steps to migrate JKS keystore entries to the NSS database for Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 or 6.x. » Configuring Portlets for Internationalization and Localization Through examples, this article describes the procedures for internationalization, localization, and deployment of portlets on Sun Java System Portal Server. MOTD ROUNDUP Get more information about these and other MOTD items... » 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. » 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. » The Sun Configuration Diagrams provide the ability to quickly document a Sun system configuration. The latest updates include Sun SPARC Enterprise M Series servers. » New version of Todd Johnson's sys_diag utility for off-site performance and configuration analysis. This version has better usability, more options, and more examples. » A BigAdmin reader offers a template for Korn shell scripts and explains the techniques used in the template. » 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. » You know the PostgreSQL logo is an elephant. Find out from this article why the PostgreSQL 8.2 features in OpenSolaris are huge. » Sun's security page has been updated with a lot of usable content, written by Sun engineers. This page consolidates information about security from several different sources. HIGHLIGHTS » Interoperability Resources » BigAdmin Multilingual Hub OFFERS AND EVENTS » 2007 Sun Tech Days, OpenSolaris Day, and NetBeans Day Tech Days now include sys admin content. » Learn more Here are some upcoming events: 2007: Rome, Italy (September 24-25); Milan, Italy (September 26-28); Shanghai, China (October 23-25); Beijing, China (November 1-3); Tokyo, Japan (November 6-8); Frankfurt, Germany (December 3-5) 2008: Atlanta, United States (January 9-10); Bangalore, India (February 27-29); Sydney, Australia (March 4-6) » Australia: Training on ZFS in Solaris OS Two-day instructor-led courses run in Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra (September and October). Call 1800 628 193 or send email: education@aus.sun.com » ANZ: Sun Developer Days in October 2007 Find examples of real-world solutions, plus information on NetBeans, GlassFish, OpenSolaris, and more. Register your interest. » First HELDENFunk Podcast Is on the Air (German Only) Tune in to hear Sun and other experts talk about Solaris Containers and Zones, Eco Computing, a "blended" iPhone, and more. » Video Surveillance Net Talk Take 10 (Flash) More on Sun Fire X4500 Video Surveillance Solution » Network.com: User Guide and Special Offer New accounts receive three months free. White Paper: On-Demand Computing Using Network.com (pdf) » Sun Blade Starter Kits for 25% Off Kits are available in six different configurations based on either the Sun Blade 8000 series or the Sun Blade 6000 series. Get great offers on Oracle and VMWare as well. (Expires December 31, 2007.) » Go Green, Save Green With Sun Fire T2000 Servers You can get 4x the performance, 5x more performance per watt, and nearly 1/4 lower Co2 emissions. Trade in qualified Sun, IBM, HP, or Dell servers, and receive an upfront, enhanced trade-in allowance. » Limited One-Time Promotion on Sun StorageTek LTO4 Tape Drives Do you have an older-generation tape drive? Trade it in and upgrade with Sun StorageTek technology. » Trade in Qualified Competitor Switches for a New QLogic Switch For a limited time, receive a 20% allowance when you trade in your old-generation switches from IBM, HP, or Cisco. » Sun System Performance Plus Pack for Sun StorageTek 6000 Series Here is bundled pricing on selected services to help you quickly deploy your modular storage array. 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