T3-x and T4-x Hardware : How to Clear ILOM/SP, FMA Faults and Fault Management – Command Line Reference
Below Commands will help to clear ILOM/SP, faultmgmt shell, and FMA faults on the T3-x and T4-x Server
Category: Solaris How-to
How to find information related to disk space usage – Solaris
This how-to article discuss about Displaying Information About File Size and Disk Space Displaying File Size Information in 1024 Bytes on a System With a ZFS Root File System Find Large Files from a directory Finding Files That Exceed a Specified Size Limit
Solaris Configuration : Configuring Apache2 under SMF
Why we need install Apache2 under SMF manually, isn’t that configured automatically when we install the package ? Actually, If the Apache 2 ( httpd) server is installed along with the Solaris 10 installation, the SMF entries for Apache 2 are configured by default. However, if...
7 Ways to find CPU information from Solaris
Traditionally, in Solaris computing world the word CPU refers to a Chip planted on the mother board. Starting from Solaris10, the term vCPU has been introduced to refer each computing entity, ( CPU Sockets, CPU Cores per Socket or Hardware Threads per a CPU Core)...
How to Configure Restricted Shell to a Solaris User
The restricted shell can be used to limit the ability of a user to change directories and execute commands. There are two versions of Restricted Shell included with Solaris: Those are: /usr/bin/rksh – Restricted Korn Shell /usr/lib/rsh – Restricted Bourne Shell, not a...
Solaris 10 – How to access SVM root disk from fail safe / Cdrom boot
This procedure explains the steps required to access a root filesystem under SVM, during the situation when the solaris cannot boot in normal way and it require to boot from failsafe or cdrom. In this procedure the device /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 is used as our root filesystem slice.....
Solaris ZFS Command Line – Solaris Admin Reference
The ZFS file system is a new kind of file system that fundamentally changes the way file systems are administered, with the below mentioned features: ZFS Pooled Storage ZFS uses the concept of storage pools to manage physical storage. Historically, file systems were constructed on top of a...
Solaris Tips : Check current active boot device, when used in volume manager (SDS / SVM / VxVM)
During regular maintenance It is often a requirement to us to determine which disk we actually boot from when the root volume is under volume manager control. Solaris on SPARC Sparc with SVM # prtconf -pv|grep bootpath: bootpath: ‘/sbus@3,0/SUNW,fas@3,8800000/sd@1,0:a’ Sparc with VxVM Root Volume...
Enabling SVM in Failsafe and password recovery in Solaris.
In one of our previous post “Solaris Troubleshooting (Magic of Solaris 10) – Root Password Recovery for any Solaris 10 (without CD/DVD)”. We tried to show how to recover system’s root password in Failsafe mode without any media for OS having single disk (i.e native device,...
Working with Solaris Server Consoles using LOM/ ILOM/ ALOM/ ELOM/ RSC
Access Server’s OS Console from the LOM service Processor: Server Models : SunFire V100/V120/V1280/E2900 and Netra 1280/1290 You can use below command to navigate between Server OS console and LOM port: connecting to console from LOM prompt: sc/lom>console Returning to LOM from the Server console...