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Changing the Oracle VM Agent User Password

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The Oracle VM Agent password is used by Oracle VM Manager when you discover an Oracle VM Server.

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The Oracle VM Agent password is used by Oracle VM Manager when you discover an Oracle VM Server.

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With Solaris 9 and later, comes an extremly nice mdb command for checking how much memory is used in kernel, and how much is used in user space.

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NFS is a protocol which allows file systems on one system to be made available on a remote system. NFS works on a server-client model.

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A Solaris kernel module is now available to emulate /dev/random and /dev/urandom as seen in Linux based systems.

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In a nutshell users will be tied-down to a specific directory which they will not be able to move from, thus prevention from seeing you entire system

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A simple procedure to recover the SunFire T1000/T2000 ALOM password by resetting the ALOM NVRAM settings.

5 Jul 2011 1 min 34 sec(s) 661 visits.

Using 'prtconf' and 'sar' we can determine the amount of memory installed on a Solaris SPARC or Soalris X86 system.

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These commands can be run against a specific process, but most of them can also be run against all processes on the system.

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The /etc/inittab file plays a crucial role in the boot sequence. For versions of Solaris prior to version 10, the /etc/inittab was edited manually.