Patching the Solaris / BOX / Patch Management

Steps: 1. Register the system with Sun in order to use Update Manager and other tools. i.e. Sun Update Connection Applications -> Utilities -> UpdateManager # which updatemanager /usr/bin/updatemanager Registration without subscription key limits updates to the following: a. Security updates for sotware b. applicable hardware updates ( firmware ) Note: Sun Update Connection features… Leer más »

Solaris DVD Installer PKG MGMT.

Setup NFS on installation server to share DVD contents: share -F nfs -o ro,anon=0 /export/home/Solaris10 [ssybl2:~]# cat /etc/dfs/dfstab # Place share(1M) commands here for automatic execution # on entering init state 3. # # Issue the command ‘svcadm enable network/nfs/server’ to # run the NFS daemon processes and the share commands, after adding # the… Leer más »

Determine and interact with running processes

### ps ### 1. ps, ps -ef (includes all processes) 2. pgrep – searches process list for matching programms 3. pkill – searches process list for matching programs and kills them 4. pwdx 1064 what directory is running a process 5. prstat ( like top in linux ) 6. prtdiag – display system diagnostic information… Leer más »

System Info Commands

### SYSTEM INFO COMMANDS ### Solaris version and platform information [ssybl0:~]# cat /etc/release Solaris 10 5/08 s10s_u5wos_10 SPARC Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Use is subject to license terms. Assembled 24 March 2008 showrev [ssybl0:~]# showrev Hostname: bl0 Hostid: 84avaa Release: 5.10 Kernel architecture: sun4v Application architecture: sparc Hardware provider: Sun_Microsystems Domain:… Leer más »

BASH .bash_profile

[ssybl0:~]# cat .bash_profile export TERM=xtermc export PS1='[\h:\w]\$ ‘ alias ls=’ls -l’ alias vi=’vim’

Brocade 200E Fibre Channel Switch

Brocade 200E Fibre Channel Switch Designed to meet the needs of small and growing SAN environments, the Brocade 4 Gb/sec 200E Fibre Channel switch delivers low-cost access to SAN technology. The switch scales from 8 to 16 ports, is easy to use and install, and is ideal for small and medium-sized organizations deploying their first… Leer más »

status of CPUs SOlaris

If you want separate stats for each processor, «mpstat 5» shows cpu usage and idle etc. System Administration Commands mpstat(1M) NAME mpstat – report per-processor or per-processor-set statis- tics -bash-3.00# mpstat CPU minf mjf xcal intr ithr csw icsw migr smtx srw syscl usr sys wt idl 0 17 0 110 234 131 11 0… Leer más »