Capturing Network statistics on Solaris 10 Latest nicstat utility is available here. The latest nicstat utility is compiled and might work better, below is the older perl version. The latest version is also on sourceforge Example script output Time Int rKB/s wKB/s rPk/s wPk/s rAvs wAvs %Util Sat 00:26:33 aggr1 60562.9 1521.4 41090.4 20494.1 1509.3 …
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How to Live Upgrade an active Solaris 10 enverment split second disk (or replace it and put aside metadettach & metaclear Check for latest patches for live upgrade at live upgrade patches Or Get patch 121430-57 Oracle Live upgrade install from the latest os cd cd <mount>/Solaris_10/Product pkgadd -d . SUNWlucfg Contents 1 check for …
How to remove all LDOM configuration from a Solaris box. If you have configured a host with LDOMs and are no longer using them you may have some configuration left in the hypervisor. The easiest way to get rid of this is to do a factory defaults reset of the configuration. This is done by: …
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This script will list the ZFS adaptive replacement cache (ARC)statistics and usages To get the script click here Another great ZFS ARC summery script is available here Output will look something like this. [root@server] /tmp # ./arc_summary.pl System Memory: Physical RAM: 64128 MB Free Memory : 58808 MB LotsFree: 999 MB ZFS Tunables (/etc/system): ARC Size: …
Speeding up SCP data transfers on the Sun SPARC T+ server line I found the fowling Sun blog talking about SSH/SCP speed runing with the T1000/T2000 servers. When using ssh or scp to transfer files to another server on the Niagara T1/2 boxes it will use only one virtual CPU which could be slow, as …
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Server Config mkdir /jumpstart/sol10-0106; mount /jumpstart mount /cdromt (sol10) ; cd /cdrom/sol_10_106_sparc/s0/Solaris_10/Tools ./setup_install_server /jumpstart/sol10-0106 mkdir /jumpstart/sol10-0106/Patches copy Solaris latest cluster files to /jumpstart/sol10-0106/Patches; unzip it add to /etc/dfs/dfstab share -F nfs -o ro,anon=0 -d “Jumpstart” /jumpstart run shareall (run share to make sure) on solarisk10 svcsadm tftpd start make sure rarp is running if not …
The tip below is for accessing CDE or Gnome from a remote server, the solution uses SSH protocol as the connection layer for security reasons. If you are using cygwin on Windows to access CDE or Gnome, First you connect with the below commend from one window, this will activate the ssh forwarding. ssh username@remote_host …
Contents 1 First create the ISCSI lun on the EMC array 1.1 On EMC 1.2 On Client host 1.3 checkout the client’s initiator… 1.4 On EMC 1.5 On Client host 1.6 sendtargets discovery enable 1.7 add a discovery address (emc) 1.8 show what’s exported 1.9 enable the device… 1.10 see what’s there… 1.11 create file …
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Enabling BSM on Solaris 10 to send BSM security logs remotely To enable Solaris Basic Security Module(BSM) just run the enable BSM script (/etc/security/bsmconv). A Solaris auto configure script the script will enable and configure BSM to log with syslog and is available here. Note1: The server will need to be rebooted for changes to …
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Contents 1 Create a DNS zone record for Mail (SMTP) 1.1 Configure and setup sendmail configuration(mc) file 1.1.1 Setup the mc file 1.1.2 compile the main.mc file 1.2 restart sendmail 1.3 Update all client servers with the latest mail server Create a DNS zone record for Mail (SMTP) Configure and setup sendmail configuration(mc) file cd …
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