Solaris articles - church1e's blog

Dump device estimates in Oracle Solaris

8 Dec 2015 2 minute read 1150 visits.

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

28 Nov 2015 1 minute read 3387 visits.

This cheatsheet provides the basic command syntax to use for some common network administration tasks under Solaris 11.

23 Nov 2015 1 minute read 1257 visits.

In Solaris 10 you had to edit the /etc/default/init file to chance the default locale, now with Solaris 11 it is defined in SMF.

31 Oct 2015 2 minute read 1973 visits.

Maintaining a copy of the Solaris distribution is a good way to ensure all your systems have access to updates and software packages.

29 Jun 2015 2 minute read 3155 visits.

A Sun Logical Domain (LDom) is a full virtual machine whereas a Solaris zone is a virtual operating system.

20 Apr 2015 1 minute read 2764 visits.

This article provides a quick comparison between the pkg command of Solaris 11 and the yum command under RHEL

23 Mar 2015 1 minute read 2934 visits.

A configured data-link is represented in the system as interface that can be used for TCP/IP.

12 Mar 2015 1 minute read 4087 visits.

This post provides the simple steps necessary to install the Oracle Enterprise Manager agent on a given Solaris system.

12 Mar 2015 1 minute read 4137 visits.

This article provides the steps necessary to check the status of the OEM agent on any given Solaris system

27 Feb 2015 1 minute read 675 visits.

Solaris 8 and 9 Extended (a.k.a Vintage) Support finished at the end of Oct 2014.