Solaris OS configuration Files with description. – Reference Doc
Upon request from many of our Unix Folks, I am trying to present some of the most useful configuration files for Solaris OS.
Category: Solaris Admin
Solaris patching for new learners.
What is a patch? A patch fixes problems that prevent the proper execution of software. It is a collection of files and directories that replace or update existing files/binaries and directories. The entire OS is installed as a collection of Solaris packages. It is done during...
Solaris Patching using Live Upgrade
Solaris Live Upgrade software enables the operating system to continue to run while upgrades, patch installations, or routine maintenance operations are performed. System administrators can patch/upgrade a system image rapidly without impacting the boot environment needed by the Solaris OS to run. Administrators simply create a...
Solaris Performance Information Center
Read – Identify memory usage by a specific process Read – Use Vmstat to find performance bottleneck Read – Generating System Utilization Statistics Read – [Video] Finding CPU / IO / Memory Bottlenecks Read – Memory usage checking and troubleshooting Read – Calculate Collision rate in...
Solaris Performance Monitoring – Finding CPU / IO / Memory Bottlenecks – Demo Video
This Video presents you the procedure to investigate various performance bottlenecks related to Memory, CPU and IO using the commands iostat, vmstat and prstat.
Solaris Performance Tuning: tune and measure pttys
In Solaris versions prior to Solaris 8, you can use the crash utility to view the ptys on a system. To use crash you must be root.
Solaris Performance: Identify memory usage by a specific process
Understanding how much memory individual processes are using, and what types of memory are in use is both a simple and difficult question to answer. Simple because there are a number of tools that can report the memory usage per process, but difficult to explain, as...
Solaris Reference – How to Create a New Domain on Sun Enterprise 10K
Below Procedure describes how to add a new two-board domain, using Sun direct attach boot storage to an existing Sun Enterprise 10000 platform. You will use the System Service Process (SSP) as a boot server for the domain’s new operating system. The SSP is a SPARC...
Solaris SDS : Both Submirrors go into ‘Needs Maintenance’ when I/O is performed but no disk errors seen
The following is the Sample SVM(Solaris Volume Manager) configuration of the layered soft partition. d50: Soft Partition Device: d100 State: Okay Size: 10485760 blocks (5.0 GB) Extent Start Block Block count 0 1 10485760 d100: Mirror Submirror 0: d101 State: Okay Submirror 1: d102 State: Okay...
Solaris Send Mail Information Center
Read – Basic Troubleshooting Read – Troubleshooting Reference Read – Troubleshooting Guide – 1 Read – Troubleshooting Guide – 2 Read – Investigating Error Logs
