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Patching Solaris with Sun Patch Manager 2

Updated 16 Sep 2007 Read time 2 min(s) 16 sec(s) (1441 visits).

Sun have decided to terminate (end-of-support) Patch Manager 2.0 support. You are now recommended to use Sun Update Manager instead.

Published 20 Apr 2005 Read time 34 sec(s) (3246 visits).

In this post I show options to disable the power/suspend key and an alternative to reassign the key to perform screenlock instead.

Published 7 Mar 2005 Read time 3 min(s) 44 sec(s) (3276 visits).

For standard Sparc servers the normal method of setting up a jumpstart is the be st forward, but for X86 clients PXE is the way to boot Solaris.

Updated 19 May 2014 Read time 1 min 3 sec(s) (4463 visits).

syslog is an important facility need in all enterprises. We as sysadmins look at syslogs as a critical source to troubleshoot performance issues

Published 7 Jan 2005 Read time 0 sec(s) (2633 visits).

Published 15 Oct 2004 Read time 7 min(s) 42 sec(s) (1671 visits).

Solaris Fault Management Architecture (FMA) introduces a new software architecture and methodology for fault management across Sun's product line.

Published 15 Oct 2004 Read time 3 min(s) 31 sec(s) (1881 visits).

The Solaris FireEngine project is a high performance networking framework based on an IP classifier and vertical perimeters.

Updated 29 Dec 2009 Read time 5 min(s) 22 sec(s) (966 visits).

NIS+ is a network information service enables system administrators to manage a group of servers from a central location

Published 9 Jul 2004 Read time 5 min(s) 48 sec(s) (2955 visits).

This quick reference guide provides a crib sheet style listing for administrating NIS and NIS+ environments.

Published 23 Mar 2004 Read time 2 min(s) 0 sec(s) (3285 visits).

An assortment of miscellaneous Solaris commands that are useful to both novice and experienced Solaris administrators