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

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An introduction to Solaris Zones

Updated 18 Dec 2011 Read time 6 min(s) 33 sec(s) (2371 visits).

This post is an introduction to the new virtual technology introduced from Sun Microsystems, namely Solaris Zones (not containers)

Sending a ZFS snaphot

Updated 2 Sep 2013 Read time 49 sec(s) (915 visits).

You can use the zfs send command to send a copy of a snapshot stream and receive the snapshot stream in another pool

ZFS Send and Receive

Updated 2 Sep 2013 Read time 2 min(s) 51 sec(s) (2714 visits).

ZFS has the ability to send and receive data. This can be used to combine snapshots, create backups, or replicate data between servers

How to determine if your Solaris Kernel is 32 or 64 bit?

Updated 28 Oct 2011 Read time 56 sec(s) (507 visits).

The "isainfo" command determines whether the running Solaris kernel is 32-bit or 64-bit.

Which Solaris 11 Patch Level am I working on?

Updated 19 Oct 2011 Read time 2 min(s) 43 sec(s) (2793 visits).

Explanation of the Solaris 11 fine grained versioning schema for SRUs and updates

Enabling and Disabling ftp services on Solaris

Updated 22 Jan 2012 Read time 1 min 13 sec(s) (3157 visits).

For security purposes, administrators may wish to disable ftp on a given Solaris system.

Enabling and Disabling telnet service on Solaris

Updated 17 Oct 2013 Read time 1 min 4 sec(s) (4262 visits).

For security purposes, administrators may wish to disable telnet on a given Solaris system.

How to mount an ISO image under Solaris

Updated 15 Oct 2011 Read time 1 min 13 sec(s) (2359 visits).

A simple procedure to mount an ISO image under the Solaris OS and present the image to Guest zones.

Troubleshooting ZFS Swap and Dump devices

Updated 29 Jul 2014 Read time 4 min(s) 26 sec(s) (2528 visits).

If you need to adjust the size of the swap volume after installation on an active system, review the following steps. See CR 6765386 for more info

Using the Solaris getent command

Updated 2 Jun 2014 Read time 2 min(s) 16 sec(s) (569 visits).

The advantage of getent is that the command searches the information sources in the order in which they are configured in the name service switch file.