How to determine if your Solaris Kernel is 32 or 64 bit?
The "isainfo" command determines whether the running Solaris kernel is 32-bit or 64-bit.
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Which Solaris 11 Patch Level am I working on?
Explanation of the Solaris 11 fine grained versioning schema for SRUs and updates
Enabling and Disabling ftp services on Solaris
For security purposes, administrators may wish to disable ftp on a given Solaris system.
Enabling and Disabling telnet service on Solaris
For security purposes, administrators may wish to disable telnet on a given Solaris system.
Creating a local yum repository for Puppet
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
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
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
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
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
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.