Vol. 7 No. 7, September 2008 View Archive  |   Update Your Profile   BIGNEWS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS What's new in the BigAdmin web site, community, wiki, and blog. Once a month by email. » End of Service Life for Solaris 7 and 8 OS On August 15, 2008, Solaris 7 exited EOSL Phase 2. Except through custom support agreements, all support for Solaris 7 is terminated. On April 1, 2009, Solaris 8 enters EOSL Phase 2. Vintage patch entitlement (for patches developed ON OR after April 1, 2009) requires purchase of the Solaris 8 Vintage Patch Service. » Announcing the Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio This open virtualization solution spans virtualization and management for desktops and datacenters. See Product Spotlight section below for details. » How Sun Forums Were Built With Sun Java System Web Server The Sun Forums web site offers Web 2.0-style forum services. See how forums.sun.com is deployed on Sun Java System Web Server 7.0. » Solaris Tip of the Week Tips cover RBAC, displaying zone utilization on a web server, using the global zone as a firewall, a Solaris search utility, file-based ZFS for development and test environments, DHCP JumpStart, Solaris Zones, Service Management Facility (SMF), and debugging native code with the dis command. » Setting Up MySQL Cluster Software Using Solaris Zones Partitioning Technology You can set up MySQL Cluster software in a Solaris Zones environment, which is useful for replicating an environment without using multiple physical systems. » Security Deep Dive Updated for the Solaris 10 OS Glenn Brunette has updated his 93-page presentation covering Solaris security goals, a Solaris 9 security review, and Solaris 10 security. » Using RAID 6 on the Sun StorageTek 6140 Array This Sun BluePrints document describes RAID 6, a RAID algorithm that is gaining popularity and can be cheaper to implement than RAID 1+0 and more reliable than RAID 5. » Sun's Approach to Intelligent Power Monitoring This Sun BluePrints article introduces Sun's technologies and services to help you more effectively measure, analyze, manage, and report power consumption. » Setting Up OpenDS 1.0.0 as a Naming Service for the OpenSolaris OS, Part 2 of 2: Advanced Configurations Part 2 of this series shows how to configure for UNIX user authentication and for Digest-MD5 or CRAM-MD5 authentication before setting up clients. » Check out the Series on "Less Known Solaris Features" Here are two new Solaris tutorials created by Joerg Moellenkamp: CacheFS Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit (JET) TECHIE TOOLBOX The Techie Toolbox often features scripts and content submitted by members of the BigAdmin community and may not be appropriate for all organizations. » DNS Server Configuration This script is used to configure DNS primary and secondary servers and add a client to the primary server. Updated to support Solaris 10 OS and global and non-global zones. » Board Flash Overview for Sun Fire 15K Server This script gives an overview of a Sun Fire 15K board flash version, per board, with domain info. » Solaris System Audit Useful Solaris auditing script that outputs information such as who is logged in at the time the script is run, who is doing what, system info, and more. » Sar Mem Monthly Report This script uses the sar logs to get the memory usage average per month. » Sar CPU Monthly Report This script uses the sar logs to get the CPU usage average per month. COMMUNITY, BLOGS & WIKIS » Happy Birthday Redesign for BigAdmin Wiki BigAdmin Wiki is one year old. Use it when you want to post content immediately, or comment on other sys admin content. Just submit your wiki page URL to earn BigAdmin Bucks. Share Your Knowledge and Get BigAdmin Gifts » Tech Tips From the Community: In Italian: Funzionalita di base per la creazione dei domini in Sun Java System Application Server Spanish-language content from our readers » New Community Contributions to Our Wiki: Installing Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Containers Mirroring root With Solaris Volume Manager in the Solaris 9 and 10 OS » Blog: Sun Java System Identity Synchronization for Windows Jonathan Gershater's blog posting offers troubleshooting guidelines for ISW installation and deployment. » Blog: How Solaris Disk Device Names Work A clear and thorough explanation of how the Solaris OS uses disks, and how it names its devices. » Blog: Hands-on Introduction to ZFS Pools This blog has useful stuff like a three-part intro to ZFS pools (and a Solaris Performance Primer, too). » Video in German: Chip Multithreading Can Be Funny Celebrity chef Ingo Frobenius explains with an easy cooking recipe how CMT works. Enjoy the techie humor on Sun Vision.TV. DEVELOPER CORNER Young Developer Learning Path on SDN More Information on Using Greenfoot, Wombat, and BlueJ Combining Groovy, Grails, MySQL, the Java Persistence API, and GlassFish Start Building JavaFX Applications Getting Started With Bazaar for MySQL Code Rich Burridge's Blog on Using Mercurial Accelerate Application Builds Using dmake in Sun Studio IDE Engineering Webcast: OpenSolaris, A Boundless Development System Sun Studio Express July 2008 Supports Performance Analysis of MPI Applications Installing Sun Studio or GNU Developer Tools Onto OpenSolaris PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT » More on Sun xVM Virtualization Portfolio: Open Source xVM VirtualBox Supports Major Operating Systems Download this small-footprint hypervisor. Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0 enables rapid prototyping for building and testing on virtual machines. Know that your applications will run on multiple operating systems before deploying. Sign Up for a Bi-weekly xVM Ops Center Webinar xVM Ops Center 2.0 is an updated console tool for both physical and virtual management. » Single Sign-On and Logout Securing Applications With Identity Services, Part 4 shows how to achieve SSO and logout by means of OpenSSO-supported REST operations. This article hosts a sample application, accompanied by the related setup procedures and code segments. » From the Trenches at Sun Identity, Parts 5 and 6 Part 5: Support for OpenSSO Sun is offering full support and indemnification for its open web access management and federation project. This interview describes the background, support model, and more. Part 6: Identity Services for Securing Web Applications See how OpenSSO's identity services protect applications from unauthorized access. This article also describes plans for integrating identity services with the federation capability in OpenSSO. MOTD ROUNDUP Get more information about these and other MOTD items... » The latest addition to the Sun Java System Access Manager FAQ has tips on performance optimization and configuration. These Q&As offer best practices and resolutions for error scenarios. » Wondering if you can deploy Sun Java Enterprise System in virtualization environments? This article gives you the answer. » Here's an overview of the Sun xVM hypervisor software on the x86 family of processor architectures. Also discussed are virtual machine instances known as domains. The hypervisor is based on the work of the Xen community. » The Solaris 10 5/08 (Update 5) Patch Bundle provides another option for a patching strategy to maintain your Solaris systems. This article gives some reasons to use this patch bundle. » The article "Assigning Meaningful Names to Network Interfaces" introduces administrators to the concept of datalink interface vanity naming in OpenSolaris. HIGHLIGHTS » Techie Toolbox Scripts » Community Tech Tips OFFERS AND EVENTS » Sun Tech Days Include Sys Admin Track Here's the proposed 2008-2009 schedule: Sao Paulo, Brazil (Sept. 29-Oct. 1, 2008); Seoul, South Korea (October 15-17, 2008); Taipei, Taiwan (November 17, 2008); Guangzhou, China (November 19, 2008); Beijing, China (November 21-23, 2008); Tokyo, Japan (December 2-4, 2008); Singapore, Singapore (January 20-22, 2009); Hyderabad, India (February, 2009); New York, U.S. (February, 2009); London, United Kingdom (March, 2009); Madrid, Spain (March/April, 2009); St. Petersburg, Russia (April 8-10, 2009); Tel Aviv, Israel (May, 2009) » Sun Java CAPS Horizons Summit EMEA 2008 October 13-14, Munich, Germany: Horizons Summit. October 15: Horizons Engineering Workshops and Feedback Sessions. Event language is English. » MySQL Customer Conference October 21, 2008 in Munich, Germany Learn how you can best use MySQL and get great tips for system optimization. (The event language is English.) » Systemhelden Celebration (in German) Enjoy the latest HELDENfunk, the heroic podcast for all sys admins. Episode 20: We celebrate our first birthday and you are invited. » Webcast on Improving IT Team Performance Register to watch the IDC Webcast, "The Impact of Sun Certification." » Training for Teams: Coaching on the Solaris 10 OS The Sun Solaris 10 Certification Coaching Program offers an expert-led, on-site event for a dedicated team of up to eight experienced administrators in a single enterprise. » Switch Into High Gear Get up to $24,000 in Fibre Channel (FC) ports free when you purchase a Sun StorageTek SL3000 Modular Library System and a Brocade 8 Gb/sec FC switch. » Try Multithreaded Sun SPARC Enterprise Servers Try a system free for 60 days at no cost, no risk. Like it, buy it. If not, return it -- we pay shipping both ways. - Take your pick of these two award-winning servers, based on Sun's latest 64-thread UltraSPARC T2 processor: Sun SPARC Enterprise T5120 (for web-scale computing) or T5220 (for virtualization, with up to 64 virtual systems in one server). » Save Up to 30% on Sun Fire X4150 and X4450 Servers Special offer on these x64 servers with Intel Xeon processors (until September 30, 2008). » Sun Fire UltraSPARC IV+ Uniboard Upgrade Promotion Take advantage of Sun UAP promotional UltraSPARC IV+ 1.95GHz Uniboard trade-in allowances of up to 25%. (Offer good through September 30, 2008.) LINKS » What's New and Recently Updated on BigAdmin » Visit the BigAdmin Site » BigAdmin Newsletter Archives » Check out the Solaris Developer Center RESOURCES FOR » System Admins » Developers » Partners » Press SUN.COM » Products » Services & Solutions » Training » Downloads » Documentation » Sun Store © 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All rights reserved. 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