Vol. 7 No. 8, October 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. » New Solaris 10 Applications Library Is Live on BigAdmin If you're a sys admin, developer, or user, you can search for and download Solaris 10 applications by vendor or application name/description, for SPARC or x86/x64 platforms. If you're a Sun partner, you can publish your application data yourself. » Solaris 10 10/08 OS: ZFS and Virtualization Enhancements Now Solaris 10 systems can boot from ZFS and use ZFS as their root file system. The update also includes enhancements for Solaris Containers and Logical Domains. Videos: What's New with Solaris 10 10/08 and Solaris ZFS FAQ on ZFS and Solaris 10 10/08 OS » Patching Solaris Using Sun xVM Ops Center A writer from the docs.sun.com group describes methods to patch the Solaris OS using Sun xVM Ops Center 1.1. » New: Systems Management Release Hub Here's info on Sun Management Center add-on software and Sun Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) software releases. » Updated: Sun System Firmware Release Hub This updated hub has resources to help you manage Sun systems, including FAQs and information about firmware releases. » Sun Fire X4540 Server as Backup Server for Zmanda's Amanda Enterprise 2.6 Software A quick-start guide for configuring the Sun Fire X4540 server to use with Zmanda's software. The article also has tips for configuring zpool and ZFS on the Solaris 10 OS. » Need More Disk Storage, and Want It to Be Fast? Configure the Sun Storage J4400 array for potential backup throughput rates of over 1 Tbyte per hour. Two scenarios: Using Sun StorageTek Enterprise Backup Software Using Symantec Veritas NetBackup » Solaris Tip of the Week: Link Aggregation and Logical Interfaces This tip from Jay Danielsen provides a couple of options for configuring your network interfaces. » Sun BluePrints Documentation: Provisioning With iSCSI and Solaris ZFS in 10 Minutes LDoms I/O Best Practices: Network Availability With Logical Domains 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. » User Maintenance Script that allows basic user maintenance and incorporates basic security features. » zombie_clear.ksh Korn shell script to clear zombie processes. » listlevel.txt This script allows you to pass the name of the starting point of a listing and the number of directory levels to be displayed. » addpath Here's a script that will add a directory to the head or tail of your path. » ac - Align Columns This script tidies up the output of commands like df and ls, where file and disk sizes allow bigger values than the format strings are expecting. COMMUNITY, BLOGS & WIKIS » What's Going On? You Tell Us If you know of cool events, add them to the Community Events Calendar in the BigAdmin Wiki. » Sun Solaris Campus in Second Life Chat with Solaris experts, participate in scavenger hunts for a prize, and get answers to your questions. Expert schedule below (XML page, or hot link to Google calendar). Office hours schedule for Solaris experts » Tech Tips From the Community: Introducing NFS Fundamentals for the Solaris OS Integrating Symantec Veritas NetBackup With ZFS Snapshots in the Solaris 10 OS In Spanish: Funcionalidades Básicas para Creación de Dominios con Sun Java System Application Server » New Community Contributions to Our Wiki: Building a Secure FTP Server (With File List for FTP Jail Environment) Mounting USB on the Solaris 9 OS Moving Old Files With Directory Structure in a Large Directory How to Cancel a Print Job When You Don't Know the Name of the Printer Creating and Burning a DVD or CD With Solaris 9 OS on SPARC Platforms » Follow BigAdmin on Twitter If you'd like to know more about what we publish or update on BigAdmin, follow our Twitter ID, "BigAdmn" (without the second "i"). » News, Training, and How-Tos Related to OpenSolaris: Winners of Community Innovation Awards How-Tos and Guides on Genunix Site One-Day OpenSolaris Training Using VirtualBox Introduction to Operating Systems: A Hands-On Approach Using the OpenSolaris Project » Ben Rockwood's Blog: SAPro Podcasts Are Coming Look out for upcoming "admin roundtables" to discuss the job and lifestyle of sys admins across the industry. » Share Your Experience and Get BigAdmin Gifts When you send us your scripts, tech tips, and articles, you can earn BigAdmin Bucks to use for a 2-GB USB memory stick. DEVELOPER CORNER A Personal Data Storage Application With Embedded Java DB Podcast: Introducing Sun Studio Express 07/08 Blog: Bootable Mirrored Disks on OpenSolaris With Ultra 24 Workstation RESTful Web Services and Comet Using JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) in Java ME for Data Interchange Why Use Sun Studio 12 Compilers and Tools? DTrace Output Visualization With NetBeans DTrace GUI Plug-in Sun HPC ClusterTools 8 Software Deep Dive Video: Lightweight User Interface Toolkit (LWUIT) Exchanging Data With XML and JAXB, Part 2 From the Trenches at Sun Identity, Part 7: Security for Web Services Integrating Applications With OpenSSO PRODUCT SPOTLIGHT » Launch of Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server Check out the new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5440 Server, a 4-socket, 256-thread server based on Sun's open-source CMT architecture, with all the scalability and RAS features of the traditional midrange. More Info on Sun CoolThreads Servers » New OpenSolaris xVM Documentation (in PDF format): Install Sun xVM Hypervisor and Use It to Configure Domains Part 1: Configure and Use ZFS-Hosted iSCSI Guest Storage Within the Sun xVM Hypervisor Part 2: Configure and Use ZFS-Hosted iSCSI Guest Storage Within the Sun xVM Hypervisor » Adaptive Security Weblog: The Future of IT Security This blog from Sun's Global System Engineering (GSE) Security Team offers a vision for how IT systems will be designed, implemented, and managed in the future. » Phone Call Surveillance With CopperEye Greenwich on Sun Fire X4540 Server This case study used CopperEye Greenwich on a server running the Solaris 10 OS. CopperEye Greenwich software is designed for fast retrieval of records located in flat data files. » Meet Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo, GlassFish Engineer Sahoo talks about enabling GlassFish to run on the OSGi platform and the benefits of working in an open source community. » Deploying OpenSSO on GlassFish Application Server OpenSSO, Sun's open-source project for access management and federation, is a self-contained Java EE application. Here's how to deploy it. » And More Good Info From BigAdmin: Storage Tech Tips, Videos, and Resources Technical Docs for Sys Admins in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French and Spanish Resources for LAMP-SAMP and Sun Web Stack Installer Exit Codes of Sun GlassFish Communications Server and Enterprise Server Sun Cluster Software Support for Solaris 8/9 Containers and Linux Containers MOTD ROUNDUP Get more information about these and other MOTD items... » Cool blog: Around the world...Technology for Sun Partners. Useful stuff like an intro to ZFS Pools in three parts. » Are you installing Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 on OpenSolaris? Here are a few steps needed so that Web Server will adopt the Java 6 SE Platform runtime. » More good info on the BigAdmin Multilingual hub: an article in Japanese on QA for Solaris Containers. » Check out this tutorial on creating and configuring a MySQL DataSource in the GlassFish Application Server. HIGHLIGHTS » Techie Toolbox Scripts » Community Tech Tips OFFERS AND EVENTS » 2008 Sun xVM Roadshow (U.S.) For questions or feedback, please contact xVM-Roadshow [at] sun.com. Oct. 28: San Diego, CA Oct. 29: Irvine, CA Oct. 30: El Segundo, CA Dec. 10: Dallas, TX Dec. 11: Austin, TX » Sun Tech Days Include Sys Admin Track Here's the proposed 2008-2009 schedule: Taipei, Taiwan (Nov. 17, 2008); Guangzhou, China (Nov. 19, 2008); Beijing, China (Nov. 21-23, 2008); Tokyo, Japan (Dec. 2-4, 2008); Singapore, Singapore (Jan. 20-22, 2009); Hyderabad, India (Feb. 18-20, 2009); London, United Kingdom (March 25-27, 2009); Madrid, Spain (March 31-April 2, 2009); St. Petersburg, Russia (April 8-10, 2009); Tel Aviv, Israel (May 5-7, 2009) » Sun High Performance Computing Consortium SHPCC is being held in Austin, Texas, November 15 through 17, 2008. » Save 20% on Selected Sun Fire Servers Take your pick of Sun Fire X4140, X4150, X4240, X4250, and X4440 servers, offering greater performance and up to twice the density of conventional server and storage array subsystems. » Upgrade to Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 or T5240 Server Replace your old IBM, HP, Dell, or Sun server with the new Sun SPARC Enterprise T5140 or T5240 server, and get more performance, power savings, and space savings. » Get a Sun Bundle, Save a Big Bundle Purchase a Sun Fire X4100 M2 or X4200 M2 Server bundled with a Sun StorageTek 2530 SAS array and take 15% off the list price. » Sun Certified System Administrator: Level I for Solaris 10 Certification Package, Web Learning Edition You could save 28% off the separate components by buying this web package to prepare you for the first exam of the SCSA certification. » Sun xVM Customer Training Sign up for training courses on open, interoperable, and Internet-scale virtualization. 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