Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Troubleshooting
by Yogesh Raheja · Published November 19, 2021
How to collect crash dump for solaris x-86 arch servers. Sometimes your System crashed/paniced all of a sudden and you will see there will not be any crash dump files created for analysis. But Vendor always require system dump files to analyze the server to provide...
Solaris Disk Management / Solaris Troubleshooting / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published October 9, 2021
While handling storage related issues, it is important to Unix Admin to take the decision about disk drive replacement. The interpretation and understanding of the cause of SCSI message blocks is one important part that influences the drive replacement decision. This article will help you...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Disk Management / Solaris Troubleshooting / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published September 15, 2021
NOTE: 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 metadevices. These are *not* held in user-readable form on the root filesystem, so it...
This problem is not common to all the versions and releases but specific to the released of Solaris 8 and 9 ( I am not able to get those number clearly to mention here)
snoop” data is often required to analyze network issues. The snoop command captures packets from the network for direct or later analysis.
Below is the Reference to Common Solaris Error Messages and their troubleshooting tips.
Memory Management in Solaris (how to repair temporary memory faults) Herein I am trying to present a simple method to recover faulty temporary memory errors for Solaris OS. Below are the steps: A) Check the memory errors/faults via FMA (fault management Administration). Check the errors with...
Solaris Admin / Solaris Troubleshooting / Unix Beginners / Unix Intermediate
by Ramdev · Published June 11, 2021
Syslogd is the daemon that continuously reads and forwards system messages to the appropriate log files or users, depending upon the priority of a message and the system facility from which it originates. The syslogd daemon reads the /etc/syslog.conf to process each and every system message...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Performance Monitoring / Solaris Troubleshooting / SUN Hardware
by Ramdev · Published June 8, 2021
This post is to highlight some of the steps needed to diagnose if an issue is in fact a disk performance issue or not. And if it is, what data will be collected to help diagnose the issue. Please note that performance in general is not an...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NFS / Solaris Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published June 4, 2021
This article will help you to understand some of the basic troubleshooting instructions for NFS problems …
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