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

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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.

Solaris Hardware Compatibility List (HCL)

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

How to setup a DHCP client in Solaris

Setting up a Solaris system as a DHCP client is fairly straight forward, it's just a matter of setting up files on your system.

Solaris IP Filtering

IPF provides stateful packet filtering capabilities by IP address, network, port, protocol, network interface and traffic direction.

Viewing Processes with the pgrep command

The pgrep command lets you specify the criteria and then displays the information only about the processes that match the criteria.