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

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Process monitoring using prstat

The prstat statistics utility shows a top-level summary of the processes that are using system resources currently.

Adding a SAMBA user

This is a short how-to post to provide simple steps to add users to a SAMBA environment.

Setting default route on Solaris (updated)

A HowTo article to add or edit the Default Gateway or Default Router in Sun Solaris Operating System.

How to build a Solaris Branded Zone

This is a standard question for Solaris administrators who unfortunately have requirements for an older Solaris 9 kernel for a legacy application.

Installing EMC PowerPath on Solaris

EMC PowerPath for Solaris automates data path management, failover and recovery, and optimizes load balancing to ensure application availability.

Autosave Oracle VM configuration

The autosave feature is to ensure a copy of the current configuration is automatically saved whenever the Logical Domains configuration is changed.

LDOM cheat sheet

This document is designed to be a a quick platform specific cheat sheet to help engineers run important LDOM task on Sun SPARC systems