Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Networking / Solaris Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published June 12, 2014 · Last modified July 30, 2016
Troubleshooting lost Virtual interfaces after system reboot Virtual network interface that has just been setup is not seen as configured after a system reboot. The virtual interface no longer shows up in the ifconfig or netstat output.
Blog for Unix Admin / Veritas Administration for unixadmin / VxVM Learning / VxVM Maintenance / VxVM Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published June 12, 2014 · Last modified August 5, 2016
Re-adding a disk is same procedure as replacing a failed disk, except we use same disk. We have to detach the disk from vxvm, so that the VxVM will detect the disk failure and will cease access to the failed disk. You can then perform...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published June 12, 2014 · Last modified July 2, 2015
When a system controller (SC) is hung, try a few steps before pressing the Reset button on the SC. Step 1 . Try to Telnet or directly connect to the serial port of the “hung” SC, TIP into the platform shell, and use the “reboot” command....
Blog for Unix Admin / VCS Fundamentals / VCS Troubleshooting / Veritas Administration for unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published June 12, 2014
VCS uses the Group Membership Services/Atomic Broadcast (GAB) protocol for cluster membership and reliable cluster communications. GAB has two major functions. It handles the following tasks: Cluster membership Cluster communications To configure GAB Set up an /etc/gabtab configuration file on each...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / solaris X86
by Ramdev · Published June 12, 2014 · Last modified July 2, 2015
Instructions to Boot Solaris X86 CDROM to Single User mode: 1) Insert the Solaris x86 CDROM in the drive 2) Boot with the DCA floppy (2.6 and higher) or MDB floppy, (or correct Driver Update Boot diskettes) 3) Select the cdrom to boot when presented with...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Installation
by Ramdev · Published June 12, 2014 · Last modified July 2, 2015
This document is a step-by-step procedure on how to create a flash archive and also start an Apache Web Server to install Solaris 10 OS via WanBoot. Task 1 : Creating the Flash Archive Task 2 : Configuring the Apache Webserver Task 3: Configuring the WANBoot...
Solaris Admin / Solaris Disk Management / Storage Administration - SAN / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published March 8, 2014 · Last modified July 2, 2015
In this scenario we are assuming that we have full backup of the new disk. In order to restore the machine exactly the way it was, it is necessary to have a record of the locations of the state databases, and also the configuration of the...
Solaris Admin / Solaris Disk Management / Solaris Troubleshooting / Storage Administration - SAN / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published March 6, 2014 · Last modified July 2, 2015
It is often possible that we boot from a Solaris machine from one of the root mirror disk, and after sometime we forget current active disk. And the information of active boot disk is important while we perform SVM maintenance disks. This post will help you...
Solaris Admin / Solaris Disk Management / Solaris Troubleshooting / Storage Administration - SAN / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published March 5, 2014 · Last modified July 23, 2016
Whenever a file system develops inconsistencies because some unexpected issues, the integrity of the file system needs to be verified. UNIX has developed a very sophisticated file system integrity check ,fsck utility, which attempts to verify that all the links and blocks are correctly tied together. This...
You might have already read my old post, 7 social engineering tips that new system admins should know in new team ,where I have discussed the social engineering points that helps you to quickly sync with the new team. And this post is the continuation post...
