A collection of system administration hints and tips, tricks and articles for the Solaris operating system in all its variants.
Verifying Solaris 11 version
To check your software to see if they meet minimum version requirements for installation you can use the uname comand, however...
Continue reading...Switching Solaris 11 repositories
For testing purpose you can use the release repository but production environments must use oracle support repository.
Continue reading...Resizing Solaris swap partition online
A short tip on how to increate the size of swap online for a given Solaris system under zfs.
Continue reading...Configuring OpenSSH on Solaris 8
Solaris 8 doesn’t come with the SSH and SFTP like features, to enable these we have to install and configure third party packages
Continue reading...Basic Concepts of LDOM or Oracle VM for SPARC
SUN LDOMS aka oracle VM for SPARC is a complete virtual machines that runs an independent operating system
Continue reading...Changing the Oracle VM Manager User Password
The Oracle VM Manager user lets you log in to the Oracle VM Manager Web UI. This article provides the steps required to change the admin password.
Continue reading...Disabling MONLIST in NTP
NTP server prior to version 4.2.7 apparently allows for the user to query the NTP server stat
Continue reading...Installing and Configuring LDOMs (Oracle VM for SPARC)
Installing the Oracle VM and configuring the primary domain and create a guest domain and assign necessary resources to it.
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