Solaris articles - church1e's blog

Changing the default Solaris 11 locale

23 Nov 2015 55 sec(s) 805 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 min(s) 13 sec(s) 1274 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 min(s) 22 sec(s) 2786 visits.

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

20 Apr 2015 47 sec(s) 2386 visits.

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

23 Mar 2015 56 sec(s) 2519 visits.

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

12 Mar 2015 1 min 13 sec(s) 3560 visits.

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

12 Mar 2015 52 sec(s) 3589 visits.

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

27 Feb 2015 34 sec(s) 231 visits.

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

2 Feb 2015 3 min(s) 49 sec(s) 2568 visits.

This article describes how to display the Solaris Zone Status and Configuration from the global zone.

28 Jan 2015 39 sec(s) 3250 visits.

These commands work whether or not the file system is mounted.