Storage : Verify DMP health for VxDMP
This post will help to troubleshoot the DMP having following Symptoms – Path offline – Path doesn’t failover – Can’t see device path
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published May 12, 2011
This post will help to troubleshoot the DMP having following Symptoms – Path offline – Path doesn’t failover – Can’t see device path
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Storage Configs for Unixadmin
by Ramdev · Published May 12, 2011
The steps below will help confirm that STMS is being used and both paths are seen. 1. Validate that STMS is enabled: Check that the mpxio-disable parameter is set to “no”. *Solaris[TM] 7,8,9 — check /kernel/drv/scsi_vhci.conf *Solaris[TM] 10 only — /kernel/drv/fp.conf Example: mpxio-disable=”no”; If mpxio-disable is...
There’s no local files implementation of netgroups. Netgroups are used to group machines or users together in order to make certain sysadmin tasks easier. A standard netgroup triple reads as follows: (hostname, username, domainname)
IF your organization looking for a solution to host it’s entire application environment in an external vendor’s data center, your organization must be considering lot many factors to define the standards of the data center. Below post describes some of the Network Connectivity standards used for...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Networking / Solaris Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published May 9, 2011 · Last modified August 6, 2016
The BOUND state is the state a socket shows after it is created and the ‘bind()’ call is made, but none of the ‘listen()’, ‘accept()’, ‘connect()’ or ‘close()’ calls have been made. The confusion is that it is not a TCP state, it is a socket...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris NIS
by Ramdev · Published May 5, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
It is usual problem for server to hang in middle of the boot process, when they are configured for NIS and not able to connect to the server while booting. In this case, the first thing that needs to be done is to reconfig the system...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Networking / Solaris Troubleshooting
by Ramdev · Published May 5, 2011 · Last modified July 2, 2015
In order to do this you must create entries in the /etc/gateways file. The /etc/gateways file has the format of
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris 10 Zones & LDOMs / Solaris Admin
by Ramdev · Published May 5, 2011 · Last modified August 6, 2016
They provide a way to group services together. Solaris defines 3 of them (there are others) which roughly relate to the traditional Solaris runlevels: svc:/milestone/single-user >>> init S svc:/milestone/multi-user >>> init 2 svc:/milestone/multi-user-server >>> init 3 In addition, SMF has two pseudo milestones: none >>> Do...
Blog for Unix Admin / Solaris Admin / Solaris Kernel
by Ramdev · Published May 4, 2011 · Last modified July 30, 2016
Many system administrators, particularly those managing large database servers, have had difficulty tuning shared memory and semaphore parameters in /etc/system. Often, these difficulties are experienced before starting an application instance. The Solaris 10 Operating System addresses this issue by integrating the System V IPC tunables into...
Configure an Oracle database on shared disks using the Database Configuration Assistant. You need to configure the database only once, from the node on which you installed Oracle first. If you configured ASM for Oracle database storage, configure the Oracle database on ASM disk groups.
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