Systems and Cloud Engineering, Architecture, DevOps, Infrastruture
Since the past several months, we have been encountering a baffling problem with Solaris 10 systems hanging on their way up after a reboot (or simply a boot) in the multi-user mode (run level 3). Since we do our system patching at regular intervals (and since solaris runs so well that we don’t need to …
A healthy dose of mdb Read More »
It’s been a while since I’ve made any posts. I am looking to migrate the site shortly (host it privately). But here’s one I thought I’d share with my thousands of anonymous readers. Really folks…if you like what you read here…post a few lines. If you hate it…post that too! Global Zone configuration Add the …
Oracle 10G R2 and ASM in a Solaris Non-Global Zone Read More »
This is a study we’d (a former colleague of mine and yours truly) done last year of a log analysis tool called SplunkWhat you will read in this article are the results/excerpts of that study. Some of the questions we asked are as follows — Why use a log analysis tool? What do most shops …
Dry-running Splunk — "The IT Search Engine" – I Read More »
This infoworld article caught my eye and induced some much needed mirth. http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/04/01/14FE-april-fool-hp-windy_1.html
Remember to delete the service maps for NFS using svccfg command With Solaris 10 and VCS 5.x, nfsd HAS TO run under VCS control. In order to achieve that, the following needs ton happen (on every node that will host the NFS share) — Disable/Delete the NFS services from SMF # svccfg delete -f svc:/network/nfs/server:default# …
NFS HA Service Group in VCS 5.x on Solaris 10 Read More »
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Solaris8 BrandZ pre-requisites Requires kernel patch 127111-05 (or latest version) for sparc. Find all dependencies and fulfill then (ie patch requirements). # lsSUNWs8brandr SUNWs8brandu SUNWs8p2v# pwd/mypool/software/sol8p2v/s8ma-1_0-rr/Product# pkgadd -d .The following packages are available: 1 SUNWs8brandr Solaris 8 Migration Assistant: solaris8 brand support (Root) (sparc) 11.10.0,REV=2007.10.08.16.51 2 SUNWs8brandu Solaris 8 Migration Assistant: solaris8 brand support (Usr) …
Solaris 8 Zone — etude/BrandZ trial run Read More »