A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Solaris operating system in all its variants.

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Resetting Oracle VM 3.x Agent Password

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To facilitate the initial discovery of the Hypervisor part of the setup requires that we set the password for the root user and for the ovs-agent.

Resetting Solaris LDOM to factory default

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If you remove the LDOM before restoring the factory default configuration, you can restore the factory default configuration from the service processor

How to install and change locale in Solaris 11

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In a default installation of Oracle Solaris 11, ten Core Locales are available. You can add support for additional locales using the pkg command.

Solaris 11 enable_passwd_compat

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how to set enable_passwd_compat for LDAP under solaris 11

Installing Solaris boot blocks

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This post discusses how to install the boot block on a Solaris system running either the older UFS file system or the newer ZFS root file system.

Dump device estimates in Oracle Solaris

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The dumpadm program is a Solaris administrative command that manages the configuration of the operating system crash dump facility.