Solaris articles - church1e's blog

Disabling replies to broadcast ping requests

14 Jun 2005 1 minute read 2786 visits.

By default, Solaris systems are enabled to respond to broadcast ICMP echo packets, which are ping requests.

16 Sep 2007 2 minute read 1651 visits.

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

20 Apr 2005 1 minute read 3480 visits.

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

7 Mar 2005 3 minute read 3550 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.

19 May 2014 1 minute read 4926 visits.

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

7 Jan 2005 1 minute read 2858 visits.

15 Oct 2004 7 minute read 2046 visits.

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

15 Oct 2004 3 minute read 2117 visits.

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

29 Dec 2009 5 minute read 1168 visits.

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

9 Jul 2004 5 minute read 3257 visits.

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