Solaris articles - church1e's blog

How to determine free and used memory in Solaris

5 Jul 2011 1 minute read 702 visits.

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

29 Jun 2011 4 minute read 2627 visits.

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

29 Jun 2011 2 minute read 2885 visits.

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.

17 Jun 2011 3 minute read 2756 visits.

This is a simple post to answer the question ... How do I identify my file system type? and covers various falvours of UNIX and Linux

23 Oct 2011 1 minute read 4137 visits.

This article will document how to mount a Windows CIFS file share onto the local file system on the Solaris 11 server.

25 Apr 2011 1 minute read 1186 visits.

The beadm command enables users to manage their boot environments. This article provides a snapshot of the more command beadm subcommands.

22 Apr 2011 3 minute read 3221 visits.

Under Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris the SMF has been upgraded. There are great new tools to handle the sysadmin work on the services.

10 Nov 2015 1 minute read 2945 visits.

Using the ramdiskadm command we can create a ramdisk pseudo device in the Solaris OS

4 Mar 2011 3 minute read 2858 visits.

Efficient event log syslog analysis reduces system downtime, increases network performance, and helps tighten security policies in the enterprise.

2 Mar 2011 3 minute read 3674 visits.

We have many utilities like iostat, fsstat, sar, etc. in Solaris to identify disk I/O performance issues.