A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Solaris operating system in all its variants.

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Solaris performance monitoring using K9 toolkit

In a nuyshell, the K9Toolkit is a collection of tools written using the KStat library on a Solaris 9 server to help locate performance bottlenecks.

Which Solaris package installed this file?

If you have a file and need to know the package that installed the file on the system then using pkgchk should help.

Which Sun systems have ILOM, ALOM or RSC?

Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) is the system management firmware used to monitor, manage, and configure a variety of Sun server platforms.

Sun RSC Configuration

How to setup and manage a Sun RSC (Remote Serial Console) on the Sun Enterprise™ 250.

Adding a permanent static route in Solaris

When adding routes persistently care should be taken to make sure that routes that you add do not already exist in the persistent configuration.

Disabling services in Solaris 10

To disable a service under Solaris 10 we use the svcadm command.

Changing the Hostname in Solaris (updated)

The traditional method of changing the hostname of a given solaris system was to use sys-unconfig utility.

Solaris Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

The Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) identifies hardware that is compatible with Solaris and provides information about available software support.