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How to Identify the ZFSSA Serial Number

Published 12 Jan 2016 Read time 30 sec(s) (3133 visits).

The goal of this document is intended to help identify the correct serial number associated with a ZFS Storage Appliance.

Published 11 Jan 2016 Read time 1 min 22 sec(s) (2329 visits).

By default, RHEL doesn't prompt for a password and we are given root shell directly, as usually Single User mode can be used to reset root password.

Published 12 Dec 2015 Read time 55 sec(s) (2481 visits).

During a test build of Ubuntu 15.10 I suddenly received the following error when refreshing the packages from the repository.

Published 8 Dec 2015 Read time 2 min(s) 18 sec(s) (604 visits).

The dumpadm program is a Solaris administrative command that manages the configuration of the operating system crash dump facility.

Published 30 Nov 2015 Read time 4 min(s) 49 sec(s) (2136 visits).

The NetBackup Access Control (NBAC) is the role-based access control that is used for master servers, media servers, and clients.

Published 28 Nov 2015 Read time 2 min(s) 26 sec(s) (805 visits).

The NetBackup Catalog is the internal database that contains information about NetBackup backups and should be protected.

Published 28 Nov 2015 Read time 2 min(s) 15 sec(s) (1628 visits).

The NetBackup Catalog is the internal database that contains information about backups and configuration and should be protected regulary.

Published 28 Nov 2015 Read time 1 min 49 sec(s) (2723 visits).

This cheatsheet provides the basic command syntax to use for some common network administration tasks under Solaris 11.

Published 23 Nov 2015 Read time 55 sec(s) (722 visits).

In Solaris 10 you had to edit the /etc/default/init file to chance the default locale, now with Solaris 11 it is defined in SMF.

Published 5 Nov 2015 Read time 2 min(s) 51 sec(s) (174 visits).

Access control lists (ACLs) allow you to assign permissions to many different users and groups on individual files or directories.