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The Techie Toolbox often features scripts and content submitted by members of the BigAdmin community and may not be appropriate for all organizations. |
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Process Monitor With this script, you can monitor a process by specifying it with the 'PROCESS' variable, and then monitoring the process through cron, for example. |
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snmplookup Use this script to do a key=value lookup on any snmptable with parseable output. |
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diskserials.sh This script parses the output from 'iostat -En' to list the serial numbers for each hard drive on the system. It can easily be adapted to print additional fields from that output. |
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Open Source Java Community Is Here Sun has open sourced its implementation of the Java SE and Java ME and has launched a community dedicated to future innovation. Come join the community and contribute to the Java platform. |
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Recent Submissions From the BigAdmin Community New tech tips and articles are flagged in our list of over 100 community submissions. Recent contributions include "Using Process Rights Management in the Solaris 10 OS to Run setuid Binaries" and "Managing swap in the Solaris OS." |
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Open-Source Portal Initiative at Sun, Part 2: Portlet Repository Here's an introduction to portlets, portals, and the java.net Portlet Repository. Part One of this series, Open-Source Portal Initiative at Sun, Part 1: Overview, describes the plan to move the Portal Server source code to an open development model. |
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Join the Cool Tools Community Download Cool Tools software, participate in an online forum, or get documentation at this community site. |
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The Sun Grid Developer Community Offers Tools and Resources Sun Grid provides access over the network to an enormous computing resource. This web site can help you get started using Sun Grid technology. |
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Submit Content and Get Cool Gifts Use your rewards for a 128MB USB memory stick and other gifts. Revised award levels make it easier to collect BigAdmin Bucks for your articles and Tech Tips. |
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Welcome to the New Solaris Developer Center We have gathered a wealth of information to help you find what you need, when you need it. Check out the coverage of our current theme, Multithreading. Building Software on the Solaris OS Find out how and why to use the Solaris platform for development and deployment. The author, Rich Teer, also discusses reasons for using Sun Studio tools. Using DTrace With Sun Studio Tools to Understand, Analyze, Debug, and Enhance Complex Applications This article describes how DTrace can be used in conjunction with Sun Studio tools to understand, analyze, and debug software applications. Cool Tools: Using SHADE to Trace Program Execution The SHADE library is an emulator for SPARC hardware, which makes it possible to write an analysis tool that gathers information from the application being emulated. Selecting Representative Training Workloads for Profile Feedback Learn two ways of viewing the correspondence between the behavior of the training and reference workloads using profile feedback. Next-Generation Web Solutions See how JavaScript language coupled with emerging Java technologies can improve your productivity and help you easily produce rich, innovative web solutions. |
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Project Blackbox Audio Podcast Find out about this prototype for a virtual, modular data center loaded up with servers, storage, and networking, packaged up in a standard shipping container for deployment anywhere you want it, when you want it. |
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Does the OS Really Matter? Jonathan Schwartz's blog on Oct. 31, 2006 talks about OS commodization and R&D, OS IP and open-source projects, the value of general-purpose operating systems, and more. |
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Image-Enabled Health Information Exchange This brief Net Talk "Take 10" presents a complete health information exchange solution, where information flows seamlessly across departments, facilities, regions, and even nations, and where medical records are in the right hands when they're needed. |
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Solaris 10 ZFS Administration Training Course SA-229-S10 covers concepts and procedures associated with the Solaris ZFS file system. Topics include managing pools and file systems, ZFS snapshots and clones, ACLs, troubleshooting, and data recovery. |
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Cool Tools for Web-Tier Optimization Solution Brief (pdf) Sun Cool Tools for CoolThreads servers can help you accelerate application development, tuning, debugging, and deployment. Learn more at http://www.sun.com/coolthreads. |
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Solaris 10 ZFS Podcast Join Bill Moore, co-lead of the team that delivered Sun's innovative Solaris ZFS file system, for this informative discussion. |
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View the Online Gridathon Webcast Sun's Online Gridathon provides a review of the Sun Grid Compute Utility architecture and summarizes the requirements for deployment. |
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Save 30% on New Tutorial for Java Technology This popular hands-on guide, from the source, is for any developer looking for a proven path to proficiency with Java SE version 6. |
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VMware Subscribers Can Receive 10% Off Sun Fire x64 Servers This limited-time offer includes Sun Fire X4100, X4200, and V40z servers. This powerful combination delivers the speed and reliability you need to launch virtualization initiatives. |
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