Category: Solaris Admin

Using the ps Command The ps command enables you to check the status of active processes on a system, as well as display technical information about the processes. This data is useful for administrative tasks, such as determining how to set process priorities. Depending on which...

How to Display the Current Crash Dump Configuration Become the root role. Display the current crash dump configuration. # dumpadm Dump content: kernel pages Dump device: /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1 (swap) Savecore directory: /var/crash Savecore enabled: yes Saved compressed: on The preceding example output means: The dump content is...

On SPARC platforms, the boot PROM is used to boot a SPARC based system and to modify boot parameters. For example, you might want to reset the device from which to boot, change the default boot file or kernel, or run hardware diagnostics before bringing the...

    How to List the Status of a Service This procedure can be used to show what services are running. Run the svcs command.Running this command without any options displays a status report of the service specified by the FMRI. $ svcs -l FMRI Example...

The Fast Reboot feature of Oracle Solaris is supported on both SPARC and x86 platforms. The Fast Reboot feature behaves differently on SPARC based systems than it does on an x86 based systems. On x86 based systems, Fast Reboot is the default. On SPARC based systems,...

How to Shut Down a System by Using the shutdown Command Become the root role. For a multiuser timesharing server shutdown, find out if any users are logged in to the system. # who Shut down the system. # shutdown -iinit-state -ggrace-period -y -iinit-state Brings the system...

How to Check File Access (sar -a) Display file access operation statistics with the sar -a command. $ sar -a SunOS t2k-brm-24 5.10 Generic_144500-10 sun4v … 00:00:00 iget/s namei/s dirbk/s 01:00:00 0 3 0 02:00:00 0 3 0 03:00:00 0 3 0 04:00:00 0 3 0...