How to Change or Set hostname on OEL/RHEL/CentOS 6
A simple post for those who are new to Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) or Red Hat Linux (RHEL) version 6 and wish to change hostname.
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Using "sneep" to find/set the chassis serial number
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Running NetBackup Reports from Command line
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Disabling SELinux in Oracle Linux 6
In this post, we walk through steps you can follow to check the status of SELinux and also disable it in OEL 6, if it is enabled.
Solaris Deferred Activation Patching (DAP)
With DAP the reboot is deferred until all patching is completed unlike non-DAP kernel patches which forced reboot before other patches can be applied.
Introduction to Solaris Live Upgrade
The Solaris Live Upgrade revolutionises the way that you add patches to Solaris products and can save you hours of time and effort.
Using psradm to enable/disable a processor on Solaris
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fssnap of / (root) fails under Solaris
Using fssnap we can quickly take a temporary snapshot of any UFS file system and then use that snapshot for backup operations.
UFS snaphots
Basically, a snapshot is read-only copy of a file system (for the purpose of backup).
Renaming Sun Cluster node names
Sometime hostname need to be changed especially when your customer want to make some list of server more orderly and correctly identify your machine