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How to determine if your Solaris Kernel is 32 or 64 bit?

Updated 28 Oct 2011 Read time 56 sec(s) (706 visits).

The "isainfo" command determines whether the running Solaris kernel is 32-bit or 64-bit.

Which Solaris 11 Patch Level am I working on?

Published 19 Oct 2011 Read time 2 min(s) 43 sec(s) (3008 visits).

Explanation of the Solaris 11 fine grained versioning schema for SRUs and updates

Enabling and Disabling ftp services on Solaris

Updated 22 Jan 2012 Read time 1 min 13 sec(s) (3615 visits).

For security purposes, administrators may wish to disable ftp on a given Solaris system.

Enabling and Disabling telnet service on Solaris

Updated 17 Oct 2013 Read time 1 min 4 sec(s) (4798 visits).

For security purposes, administrators may wish to disable telnet on a given Solaris system.

Creating a local yum repository for Puppet

Published 17 Oct 2011 Read time 2 min(s) 7 sec(s) (2843 visits).

Puppets automated management of installed applications and libraries can be enhanced with custom package repositories such as a custom repository.

How to mount an ISO image under Solaris

Published 15 Oct 2011 Read time 1 min 13 sec(s) (2533 visits).

A simple procedure to mount an ISO image under the Solaris OS and present the image to Guest zones.

Setting up NetWorker log file rotation size limits

Published 13 Oct 2011 Read time 1 min 48 sec(s) (3463 visits).

At times it is necessary to limit the size of the NetWorker logs to prevent the daemon and rap log files from growing too large.

Overwriting LDAP authentication with NMC to use the default

Published 7 Oct 2011 Read time 1 min 3 sec(s) (2751 visits).

Using this procedure you can override LDAP NMC authentication to the internal authentication or reset it back again to the internal authentication

Troubleshooting ZFS Swap and Dump devices

Updated 29 Jul 2014 Read time 4 min(s) 26 sec(s) (2831 visits).

If you need to adjust the size of the swap volume after installation on an active system, review the following steps. See CR 6765386 for more info

Using the Solaris getent command

Updated 2 Jun 2014 Read time 2 min(s) 16 sec(s) (782 visits).

The advantage of getent is that the command searches the information sources in the order in which they are configured in the name service switch file.