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Sun Management Center - A Technical Overview

Updated 1 May 2000 Read time 6 min(s) 10 sec(s) (1055 visits).

Integrates and scales from single to thousands of servers and desktops, storage components and applications running on Solaris

Updated 26 Apr 1999 Read time 2 min(s) 57 sec(s) (2218 visits).

Sun's Fast Ethernet card is one of the most commonly encountered pieces of hardware on a Solaris system. Internally nicknamed happy meal.

Updated 29 Mar 1999 Read time 1 min 9 sec(s) (3227 visits).

Overwriting a disk with the format command is usually enough for most purposes, because it greatly reduces the chance that any data can be recovered.

Updated 19 Feb 1999 Read time 1 min 41 sec(s) (2334 visits).

The st.conf is the configiuration file for the st (SCSI Tape) driver on the Solaris Operating System.

Updated 5 Jan 1999 Read time 11 sec(s) (2383 visits).

Ever needed to get Solaris to detect disks; the method depends on the version of Solaris. This article provides a how to

Updated 4 Dec 1998 Read time 22 sec(s) (2536 visits).

ping or not to ping that is a solaris quirk

Updated 22 Oct 1998 Read time 15 sec(s) (2268 visits).

A simple one liner to help find and remove core files from a given system.

Updated 17 Sep 1998 Read time 1 min 20 sec(s) (2742 visits).

Some very useful command in Solaris to find more about a given binary.

Updated 14 Aug 1998 Read time 2 min(s) 40 sec(s) (2267 visits).

A short article providing various keyboard shortcuts for command line edit of any commands quick and easily.

Updated 8 Aug 1998 Read time 1 min 13 sec(s) (2822 visits).

This article provides a list of the important files that have changed between SunOS 4.1.x and Solaris 2.x (SunOS 5.x) based systems