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Solaris Auditing

26 Sep 2007 4 minute read 3779 visits.

Solaris auditing helps to detect potential security breaches by revealing suspicious or abnormal patterns of system usage.

26 Sep 2007 2 minute read 3168 visits.

The Solaris Cryptographic Framework provides cryptographic services to users and applications through user-level and kernel-level commands.

19 Oct 2012 5 minute read 2896 visits.

Checking if any of the MPxIO, VxDMP or EMC PowerPath multipathing software is installed and active on a given Solaris system.

17 Aug 2007 1 minute read 273 visits.

Accessing a tape device (or any device) from a non-global zone in Solaris

13 Aug 2007 1 minute read 2832 visits.

Unfortunately, this feature has been implemented in such a away that will prevent you from overwriting EDM media with a NetWorker label in general.

3 Aug 2007 3 minute read 3280 visits.

The pgrep command lets you specify the criteria and then displays the information only about the processes that match the criteria.

3 Aug 2007 2 minute read 2962 visits.

The prstat command displays information about processes similar to ps and pgrep commands but refreshes (updates) the output in a periodic fashion

28 Jul 2007 4 minute read 3689 visits.

A word of caution: before you begin removing a client, make sure you have a recent bootstrap backup; If we make any mistakes we can easily recover

26 Jul 2007 2 minute read 2600 visits.

With later releases of Solaris, if you want to, you can manually lock down your system using the netstat, svcs and svcadm commands.

13 Jul 2007 1 minute read 2719 visits.

This post provides brief differences in the log files used for System Logging of the most common versions of UNIX.