A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Solaris operating system in all its variants.
Solaris LDOM vs Zones
A Sun Logical Domain (LDom) is a full virtual machine whereas a Solaris zone is a virtual operating system.
Continue reading...Solaris vs Linux - Package Management differences
This article provides a quick comparison between the pkg command of Solaris 11 and the yum command under RHEL
Continue reading...Configuring datalink interfaces with dladm
A configured data-link is represented in the system as interface that can be used for TCP/IP.
Continue reading...Installing Oracle OEM agent on a Solaris host
This post provides the simple steps necessary to install the Oracle Enterprise Manager agent on a given Solaris system.
Continue reading...How to check OEM agent status on Solaris
This article provides the steps necessary to check the status of the OEM agent on any given Solaris system
Continue reading...End of an era - Solaris 8 and 9 recommended patches
Solaris 8 and 9 Extended (a.k.a Vintage) Support finished at the end of Oct 2014.
Continue reading...Solaris zone status and configuration
This article describes how to display the Solaris Zone Status and Configuration from the global zone.
Continue reading...Determining a Solaris File System type
These commands work whether or not the file system is mounted.
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