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Patching Solaris with Sun Patch Manager 2

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Sun have decided to terminate (end-of-support) Patch Manager 2.0 support. You are now recommended to use Sun Update Manager instead.

Solaris preboot execution environment (PXE)

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For standard Sparc servers the normal method of setting up a jumpstart is the be st forward, but for X86 clients PXE is the way to boot Solaris.

Move a NetBackup image catalog to new location

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In preparing to move the NetBackup image catalog from one location to another, it is recommended to perform a full catalog backup beforehand.

stop/start syslogd on Solaris (updated)

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syslog is an important facility need in all enterprises. We as sysadmins look at syslogs as a critical source to troubleshoot performance issues

Oracle Users and Passwords

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The default accounts are: sys, system, dbsnmp and sysman. The following table provides a basic description of the of the default users.

Oracle background processes

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An oracle database is run as an instance. A database server can run multiple instances and each instance is made up of different components.

Faster SVM mirror resync

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There are two way to change block size to get quickly synchronized disks in mirrored system