Shutdown / Startup DPA
This article provides simple steps to shutdown and startup Networker DPA services
This article provides simple steps to shutdown and startup Networker DPA services
Confused by the lights on your Sky Q Hub when glowing solid, flashing or even off? This article explains and how to troubleshoot common problems.
If your Sky Q TV apps are missing or the app freeze 15-30 seconds after starting, then use these steps to try and fix the issue.
Modifying /etc/nsswitch.conf and /etc/resolv.conf to configure naming services is depricated in Solaris 11, We now perform this task using SMF.
I use one of two trusted methods finding Window Product Keys, but what happens if the output is empty? Here's a brief explanation why it may happen.
Every good program that can be used from the UNIX shell should be documented with a good man page.
The vxfsconvert utility converts a UFS file system to a Veritas File System. This utility is only available for the Solaris environment.
A short article providing a comparision between the service and systemctl utilities, and between the chkconfig and systemctl utilities
How to change a user password on Solaris/Linux systems and also see password policy
Solaris Live Upgrade is not limited to only OS upgrades; you can use it to manage downtime and risk when patching a system.
Setting up a Solaris system as a DHCP client is fairly straight forward, it's just a matter of setting up files on your system.
sneep is a utility that displays the chassis serial number for a given Solaris system. A handy tool to use when inventoring your data centre.
Have you ever needed to convert the contents of a text file from uppercase to lowercase or vice versa? Here's how!
On Linux systems the routing table maps destinations to the router and network interface that IP must use to reach that destination.
Using 'prtconf' and 'sar' we can determine the amount of memory installed on a Solaris SPARC or Soalris X86 system.
When it comes to shutting down and rebooting a Linux system the shutdown command is only command you need to know to do both jobs
This article explains with illustrations on how to configure a firewall (open local ports) on a Windows 2008 Server.
Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) traditionally introduces a new disk group version with each new major release.
mpack encodes the named file in one or more MIME messages and sends the message to one or more recipients
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.
Introducing an unknown USB device into a network can cause a host of security headaches. Take away the threat in Windows 10 in just a few short steps.
When VxVM data like disk group private regions or disk headers gets corrupted we can restore them from a vxconfigbackup file using vxconfigrestore.
This article acts like a demo showing step-by-step instructions on the creation of a new LDOM, assigning resources and installation of the Solaris OS.
To configure the Solaris Auditing subsystem on Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 we simply run the bsmconv command-line utility from the /etc/security directory
This article provides procedures for backup and restore of virtual machines deployed on a VMware vSAN data store using EMC NetWorker 9.1, 9.2 and 18.1
Simple steps to setup a Sun ZFS Storage Applicance as an iSCSI device.
Every Linux system has three options when clearing cache without interrupting any processes or application services.
This is a short how-to post to provide simple steps to add users to a SAMBA environment.
This is a quick how to guide, giving details of how you can see the outstanding savesets remaining or queued using nsradmin
RTFM is often used as a response to technical questions. Unfortunately, some folks do not even know how to find the manual, let alone understand it.
This article provides the steps necessary to create a QFS Shared file system
This article is aimed at providing a list of basic and advanced command-line examples for Veritas Volume Manager.
You can use the zfs send command to send a copy of a snapshot stream and receive the snapshot stream in another pool
An action plan showing the steps required to upgrade to Solstice Backup 6.1 from previous versions.
A quick reference guide to backups and restore details for Lotus Notes using NetWorker.
When a ssh-key authentication is not enough, the quickest solution for a server could be to make ssh to ask for 2-factor token when logging in.
A simple hack to rename the Nibbleblog default admin area to something a little more secure.
This article describes how to install Nibbleblog on a Ubuntu 16.04 system running Apache and PHP.
You must be the global administrator or a user with appropriate authorization in the global zone to perform these procedures.
Although you can add NIC teaming to a virtual machine, it's not a Hyper-V feature but functionality of the Windows Server used for network workload
Every day we can see companies implementing virtual servers to explore the virtualization benefits such as cost reduction, flexibility and automation.
Microsoft have been using the VHD format since the one created by Connectix in 1995 to allow Windows 3.1 to run on Mac computers.
The procedure is quite simple to recycle the NetBackup client running on a Windows Server. It does require System Administration permissions.
The logging service is configured by the NSR auditlog RAP resource. The NSR auditlog resource is created by default and cannot be deleted
Explanation of the Solaris 11 fine grained versioning schema for SRUs and updates
When a ZFS Storage Appliance system cannot be reached through the network, you can gain access to the ZFSSA console prompt through the ILOM server.
Have you forgotten MariaDB root password? You don't know how to recover it. Not to worry, use these steps to reset MariaDB root password.
Have you forgotten MariaDB root password? You don't know how to recover it. Not to worry, use these steps to reset MariaDB root password.
The cleaning process of events automatically recorded when a problem occurs can be done automatically and sometimes it is not cleaned automatically.
If problems with starting services occur, sometimes a system hangs during the boot process. This procedure shows how to troubleshoot this problem.
SSH has a key management capacity and related agents.When configured with public key authentication, your key proves your identity to remote SSH hosts
Here is a list of processes and configurations that you can use to tighten and enhance SSH security with regard to remote host access
Accessing a tape device (or any device) from a non-global zone in Solaris
A simple table which provides a listing of where to locate the serial number on various Sun related products.
There are numerous advantages to run multiple database instances on the same physical server.
In preparing to move the NetBackup image catalog from one location to another, it is recommended to perform a full catalog backup beforehand.
ZFS has the ability to send and receive data. This can be used to combine snapshots, create backups, or replicate data between servers
Renaming a zpool is not as intuitive as I would expect, but it is still pretty simple. However, we can accomplish this through a three step process.
This article shows you how to configure NetWorker servers for Windows to use blat console based binary for sending email notifcations.
This is a simple procedure which shows how to load the kernel debugger (kmdb)
A brief howto article on the best practice to install DNI8.0 on a Solaris system
Having a large number of disks can be a challange for sysadmins. By giving each disk a volume name may make it easier.
Any file under the Windows Temp folder is safe to delete. But that isn't the only place that temporary files are stored on Windows computers.
The NetBackup NDMP extension with a tape device attached to the NAS device allows a NetBackup Master Server to backup/restore files from a NAS device.
Veritas NetBackup now supports a method of recovering image information without having to import from a tape.
This article provides simple instructions to create a Flash Archive image that can be loaded onto the target system to recover from a failed drive.
We use the samfsck command to rename a SAM-QFS file system after making the necessary changes in the mcf file.
To generate a SAM-QFS Manager troubleshooting report, run the /opt/SUNWfsmgr/bin/fsmgr_report command to create the /var/tmp/fsmgr.overall.log file.
When mounting or unmounting a Sun QFS shared file system, the order in which the Solaris OE is mounted or unmounted is important.
The previous method of modifying a configuration file to configure naming services no longer works we now reply on SMF.
isodump is a crude utility to interactively display the contents of iso9660 images in order to verify directory integrity
isodump is a crude utility to interactively display the contents of iso9660 images in order to verify directory integrity
A simple procedure to recreate /dev/null on a Solaris system using the mknod command to create a special character device.
Unlike OEL/RHEL/CentOS 6, manually appending “HOSTNAME=xxxxx” into file /etc/sysconfig/network and restarting system will not work on version 7.
Within the NetWorker Config Checker 1.1 there is an additional application called NSR Log Viewer.
In versions of NetWorker 7.4.x and below, it was always possible to use nsrmm to delete savesets that exist on disk backup units
fontconfig is used to manage all types of fonts including PostScript and TrueType fonts in the Solaris desktop environment.
You need to have both the SUNWdoc and SUNWman packages installed on a Solaris system in order to view manual pages.
A collection of troubleshooting tps for the Veritas File System (VxFS).
A locale is a collection of files, data and sometimes code which contain the necessary information to adapt Solaris to a specific language.
A quick procedure to change the UID and GID for a given user using the usermod and groupmod commands.
This post discusses how to install the boot block on a Solaris system running either the older UFS file system or the newer ZFS root file system.
A factory reset of ZFSSA will reset the appliance configuration back to factory settings of the current software version, and reboot the appliance
This document provides the necessary steps to allow Backup Administrators to Migrate or Consolidate several Legato NetWorker servers.
This project changes the default configuration of the Solaris OS such that ssh is the only network-listening service.
This article provides a brief outline of how to determine which tape libraries and tape drives are configured under SAM-FS
This document provides the basics for getting successful backups of a Lotus notes partitioned server using Veritas NetBackup
A procedure to recovering from the loss or corruption of a Solstice Backup servers critical files including the index, media index, and resource files
Sometimes re-registering VSS core components can fix errors and allow NetWorker backups to continue successfull
Solstice DiskSuite is a software product that enables you to manage large numbers of disks and the data on those disks.
A simple article providing the steps necessary to get GeoIP working with PHP on Ubuntu systems.
This page assumes you want an oracle install on a single disk, with minimum memory, to just play around with oracle and learn the basics.
Installing the Oracle VM and configuring the primary domain and create a guest domain and assign necessary resources to it.
To restart the Automated Cartridge System Library Software (ACSLS) Software, simply perform the following steps.
A configured data-link is represented in the system as interface that can be used for TCP/IP.
hasnap - backs up or restores a predefined and user defined list of VCS configuration files on each node in the cluster.
This simple article provides the steps necessary to password reset a Sun StorEdge T3 array.
This article is aimed a providing a list of basic commands for Veritas File System (VxFS).
How to easily restore the classing scroll bar (disable overlay scrolling) or to re-enable it if disabled under Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 LTS
This is a simple procedure to display the version of SunCluster installed on a given system.
This cheat sheet contains common commands and information for Sun Cluster versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3.
In VCS configuration, each cluster contains systems, service groups and resources. Service Groups contain a list of systems belonging to that group.
Witihout using vxedit to change permissions VxVM device files go back to the defaults each time vxconfigd is enabled or the system rebooted.
A Solaris FLAR image can be used for reinstalling the OS one the original host and other systems.
If you remove the LDOM before restoring the factory default configuration, you can restore the factory default configuration from the service processor
A simple article on how to install the Gramps (Genealogical Research Software) on the Solaris/OpenSolaris Operating Systems.
A simple article on how to install the Gramps (Genealogical Research Software) on the Solaris/OpenSolaris Operating Systems.
A simple article on how to create a failover SSH server on a Ubuntu system, allowing you to connect on an alternative port of the original SSHD fails
Here, we've assembled 10 fast n' easy tweaks for any PC that break the factory mold and improve performance.
This article describes how to display the Solaris Zone Status and Configuration from the global zone.
If you try to view LDOM configuration information as a non-root user under Solaris...
A brief article and how to quickly copy an updated configuration to all child zones.
Under Solaris 10 we use the svcs command to provide information about services, including their status.
This a quick cheat sheet of the commands that can be used when using Veritas NetBackup
xargs command are unlike most other Unix commands in that its function is not so much to do something on its own, but to construct other commands
A simple post providing various methods of converting hexadecimal, binary and decimal with different Solaris commands,
IPC allows information transfer or synchronization to occur between processes.
With NetWorker 8 this process has been simplified; now you just un-mount the AFTD and select delete.
A simple step-by-step guide on how to test phone home on a Celerra system
This is a simple post providing the necessary steps on how to turn on Statistic logging on EMC Unisphere
How to turn on statistical and data logging on EMC Unisphere for VNX
How to turn on data logging on EMC Unisphere to collect .NAZ files
How to turn on Data logging on EMC Navisphere Express
Depending on the OS you are running determinas which command and options to use in your testing.
The preferred way of temporarily disabling access to smb / cifs shares is to set the parameter smbshare to off.
Shutdown a ZFS Storage Appliance (or one node of the appliance) from CLI without typing 'Y' to the confirmation.
The goal of this document is intended to help identify the correct serial number associated with a ZFS Storage Appliance.
This post is a quick start guide to getting the Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Simulator up and running on your desktop
A step-by-step instructions to change the nodename of a ZFS storage appliance
A simple procedure to replace a failed SCSI disks which is mirrored with Solstice DiskSuite without the need to reboot the Solaris server.
The following procedures show how to set up and use the NTP service.
EMC NetWorker Module for Microsoft Application 2.4 -- Exchange RDB Item Level Recovery
What this setting does is allow failures to be discounted when there is a successful backup of the same job within a given time frame.
Using Gmail's SMTP server as Postfix relay for reliable email delivery and also for logging all outgoing mails.
A short article on the introduction and how to manage Solaris 11 systems using puppet.
This article provides the steps necessary to check the status of the OEM agent on any given Solaris system
This post provides the simple steps necessary to install the Oracle Enterprise Manager agent on a given Solaris system.
For security purposes, administrators may wish to disable ftp on a given Solaris system.
For security purposes, administrators may wish to disable telnet on a given Solaris system.
This article provides the simple steps to enable SNMP on Solaris 10 and Solaris 11 systems.
WSB is not installed by default. The feature installation is made by Server Manager. After installation, the tool can be accessed via console or CLI.
This is a simple screenshot of how to send the Ctrl+Alt+Del key sequence to a VM guest
This article provides the simple steps needed to uninstall the VMware workstation from a Linux host. You must run the command from a Linux server.
In 9.0, NMC uses a PostgreSQL database instead of Sybase. As a result, you must migrate existing databases during upgrades.
This article provides the necessary actions needed to install and configure Key Management Service (KMS) encryption on a UNIX NetBackup master server.
This article provides the necessary actions needed to install and configure Key Management Service encryption on a windows NetBackup master server.
This article provides simplistic overview steps of performing an upgrade of your NetBackup environment from 5.x to release 6.0
This article provides a quick procedure on how to recover a lost root password frm virtually any version of Linux which uses the GRUB boot loader.
The checkpoint restart feature allows a failed backup operation to restart at a known good point prior to the point-of-failure during the backup.
NetWorker uses hostid for authorization code. hosted depends on the IP address of the computer used.
This article will provides details on how to Cross-check and Refresh Client File Indexes
The NetWorker software admin wizard is an option within NMC that allows you to Upgrade Individual or Multiple client computers at the same time.
This article helps to determine which version of NetWorker VBA is running to help open Service Requests and troubleshoot issues.
This article is to tell you how to Reconfigure Libraries or Jukeboxes in NetWorker using the NMC (NetWorker Management Console) GUI interface.
This article provides a quick reference to UFW commands that will create iptables firewall rules are useful in common, everyday scenarios.
AeroSnap is a feature of some window managers to anchor the windows to the screen edges.
This article provides a series of examples of adding different file systems, raw and disk devices to a non-global zone.
This article provides the simple steps needed to gather SPCollects from the EMC Navisphere.
This article provides the simple steps needed to gather the SPCollects from the Unisphere Maager.
Overview of NetWorker Snapshot Policy Attributes
This article makes use of the OpenFiler product to create an iSCSI target for an iSCSI SAN.
Another way to define a data zone is to say it is the set of hosts managed by a single NetWorker server.
The NetWorker Cloud Backup Option provides support for backing up to both private (onsite) and public (offsite) cloud configurations.
This post provides a basic installation and configuration of Tomcat 7 on a CentOS 7 server.
LAMP is a popular server stack using apache to deliver dynamic content; LEMP utilises ngnix to achieve the same open source technologies.
This topic describes how to perform a first-time installation of the BMC patrol agent, which includes the system collectors and service daemon.
This post provides an example of how to remove VxVM from a Solaris root disk. The operating system is mirrored between the two devices.
The Sun Explorer utility gathers information and creates detailed snapshots of a systems architecture and configuration.
Changing only the passwords for the operating system users does not sufficiently prevent someone from logging in to Avamar server nodes.
This post gives an example how to convert the .htaccess file provided with Nibbleblog when SEO is enabled into the equivalent IIS web.conf file.
The Solaris explorer gathers system diagnostic data and creates an archive suitable for Oracle support analysis.
This post provides me with a reminder of the syntax for the most useful SSH features I use whist auditing systems.
Editing large files with vi may result in the error 'Not enough space in /var/tmp' may appear and prevents you from editing your file.
The dumpadm program is a Solaris administrative command that manages the configuration of the operating system crash dump facility.
You can migrate a kernel zone to another host by using the zoneadm command. For zone migrations, a zone configuration must be portable across machines.
The pkgcond command allows you to determine the type of target being operated on (global zone, non-global zone, diskless client, and so forth)
The NetBackup Catalog is the internal database that contains information about backups and configuration and should be protected regulary.
The NetBackup Catalog is the internal database that contains information about NetBackup backups and should be protected.
A process runs every 12 hours to check for entries to be purged also if a record's lifetime has passed the time limit it will be also be deleted.
Unfortunately, this feature has been implemented in such a away that will prevent you from overwriting EDM media with a NetWorker label in general.
Pools define to which set of media the data shall be saved, it is mandatory that each pool must have different data selection criteria assigned to it.
When using AD mode for CIFS access, the data domain system clock time cannot differ by more than five minutes.
This article describes how to create a CIFS share on the data domain system and how to troubleshoot access to it.
This post provides the steps needed to configure DD Boost over Fibre Channel via the System Manager and/or via command line.
You must configure the shared data store immediately after you have deloyed the CloudBoost virtual appliance.
To troubleshoot a recovery issue configure the Recovery resource in NMC to display greater detail in the log file and retry the recovery.
Using the NetWorker recovery wizard you can restore files from the cloud.
Connect NetWorker to CloudBoost to send a NetWorker backup clone to CloudBoost.
After you configure the CloudBoost virtual app via vSphere cli you can login the CloudBoost management console to configure its deployment settings.
After you have installed CloudBoost virtual appliance, you must next configure the IP settings and hostname for CloudBoost from the VM console.
This simple post provides the steps needed to install the CloudBoost virtual appliance in vSphere
Always download your Cloudboost Encryption keys at your earliest possible time as there is no way to retrieve them after a system failure.
Using the ramdiskadm command we can create a ramdisk pseudo device in the Solaris OS
When you attempt to restart a remote server remember that the default ComputerName is the local machine, therefore you need to append -m ComputerName.
The steps correspond to the information shown in Figure 1 (below). Please refer to Figure 1 while reviewing the steps outlined.
The steps correspond to the information shown in Figure 1 (below). Please refer to Figure 1 while reviewing the steps outlined.
KMS is integrated into NetBackup in such a way so as to eliminate difficulties in using NetBackup from a system management perspective.
The Client Direct feature paired with DDBoost is especially powerful, because it enables DSP to take place on the client.
NMM enables more granular backup and recovery than a standard VSS SHAREPOINT save set which can only be restored in its entirety.
IP network multipathing (IPMP) provides a mechanism for building redundant network interfaces to guard against failures with network interfaces.
In a default installation of Oracle Solaris 11, ten Core Locales are available. You can add support for additional locales using the pkg command.
Configuring the new NetWorker client via the NetWorker Management Console (NMC)
It is strongly recommended that sites abandon older clear-text login protocols and use SSH to prevent sniffing of sensitive data off the network
This article generates a simple text file with the current active and previosly installed license keys for completeness.
This article shows how to configure iSCSI LUNs on an ZFS Storage Appliance and integrate them to a Ubuntu Server using the command line.
Either due to cloning or corporate naming standards, you may find the need to change the hostname of an Oracle Enterprise Linux System.
This procedure addresses how to reduce the index size by removing the oldest full save set and its dependencies.
If like me you're not a fan of Spotlight and want to disable it completely then you can hese simple steps.
An article on how to install the NetWorker 7.6 client on Ubuntu or Debian unsupported platforms
Allows you to obtain drive and LUN information, revive a LUN, fail and unfail a drive, and obtain LUN reconstruction progress.
The Oracle VM Manager user lets you log in to the Oracle VM Manager Web UI. This article provides the steps required to change the admin password.
A sparse file is a type of file that attempts to use file system space more efficiently when blocks allocated to the file are mostly empty.
Efficient event log syslog analysis reduces system downtime, increases network performance, and helps tighten security policies in the enterprise.
If you other applications running on the same system you may come across a conflict where both applications are using the same service port.
NetWorker with CloudBoost enables long term storage provisioning via the cloud.
Using preap to kill defunct processes on Solaris may be an option of kill -9 fails
Do you need to determine which release of Solaris you are running? Or other useful information that comes with it? The read more
SVM provides the ability to create more partitions than the limit of 7 using traditional partitions. Such partitions are called soft partitions.
This simple post provides details on how to verify the block size of an NFS volume, using the fsutil command.
The following command will create a dummy file in the specified path with the specified size (in bytes):
setuid and setgid are unix access rights flags that allow users to run an executable with permissions of the executables owner and group respectively
For legacy NetBackup logs which is located under /usr/openv/netbackup/logs , below numbers can indicate to you the severity when troubleshooting.
Once completed, clients can use this repository server to get updates over the local network instead of via the internet.
Have you ever needed to recover data from a NetWorker tape which is already out of retention policy, use this simple procedure to perform just that.
On Windows 2003 AVAMAR client uses the NTBackup Utility to create a backup of the system state.
When upgrading to NetWorker 8.1.x you cannot revert to 7.6.x without additional steps, whereas you can revert to 8.x without an issue.
Moving from Sun StorEdge Enterprise Backup (EBS) to EMC NetWorker is a procedure similar to an update to a newer release of the NetWorker software.
To prevent devices from being unloaded from the drives while scanner is in use, you must temporarily disable the Idle Device Timeout attribute.
After NMC is upgraded, the NMC gconsole.jnlp in the Java Web Start cache will be different from the previous version of NetWorker.
This post provides the necessary steps in creating a fully automated jumpstart for Solaris 10
Use this procedure to move your Legato NetWorker server license from one server to another
You can also use manual methods to control the size of the client file indexes and the media database
A simple post with examples of restoring NetBackup archives using NetBackup command line utilities.
A simple procedure to recover the SunFire T1000/T2000 ALOM password by resetting the ALOM NVRAM settings.
A simple post which provides a common place for the shutdown and reboot of various operating systems.
Use the following procedure to install NMC on a new server and to move the existing NMC database to the new server.
This article describes how to identify the state of each disk drive in the Data Domain system using the command line interface (CLI).
This can occurs when Relabelling existing or new media via the command line or using the GUI where cartridge barcode differ to the internal label
If you have a server which is low on resources, having to wait for the server manager process to finish loading can be a little bit painful
The checkpoint restart feature allows a failed backup operation to restart at a known good point prior to the point-of-failure during the backup.
Use this procedure to reset the NMC administrators password on a windows server
You can set time values in non-global zones that are different from the value in the global zone.
It all stemmed from a problem with disk space, namely the disk partition where the NSR resided became full
A short article on how to mount a DFS (distributed file system) on an Oracle Linux 5.11 system.
Here's a quick procedure to proactively fail a disk in Data Domain
Identifying a ethernet MAC address in Solaris as a non-root user is not as difficult as people think. arp, netstat and prtpicl are your friends.
A short tip on how to increate the size of swap online for a given Solaris system under zfs.
Installing a package using CYGWINs apt-cyg utility
Watch this video to see how to use the EMC Data Protection Advisor Discovery Wizard to discover EMC NetWorker servers.
EMC NetWorker Module for Microsoft Applications Hyper V Overview and GLR
This video walks through using the NetWorker Client Configuration wizard to create a client for Windows Block Based Backup to a Data Domain system
Backing up a DB2 client using the EMC NetWorker Module for Databases and Applications (NMDA)
If you have multiple savesets in suspect or notsuspect mode and you want to change their mode without using scripts simply review this article.
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.
With the introduction of Legato NetWorker 7.0 a dedicated storage node can back up only its own local data and a DSN license is required.
To ensure consistent and complete backups of your DFS environment, you will need to ensure that a configured schedule backup includes DFS topology
Listing NetWorker processes and there start times on a Windows server
At first glance the answer this is not straight forward, but the answer is quite simple; Using two commands mminfo and nsrinfo we get the results.
Scheduled clones are predefined policies that let NetWorker initiate clone jobs at a particular time with a wide variety of criteria.
Use this quick procedure if you ever want to force an update to the NetWorker License Manager
A new feature exists within NMM 3.0 and beyond that enables you to recover deleted exchange mail databases.
Sometimes the EMC Backup and Recover Appliance (EBRA) server fails to allow you to perform simple tasks like adding clients,
nsrim is unable to remove expired savesets which prevents data domain from performing housekeeping and prevents removing any data from the volumes
This is a simple procedure on how to recover the NetWorker client data onto a different NetWorker server or datazone.
Occasionally when performing a restore NetWorker is unable to browse the content of a saveset due to the saveset passing its browse period.
Files left in the temporary directory may impact the operations of a NetWorker server after an irregular shutdown and then not removed.
Introduced in 2001 with NetWorker release 7.0, CDI is used to provide a generic passthrough solution across all operating systems.
Solution to clear an Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center stuck job
Benefits of integrating an Avamar system with Data Domain on the backend would be a flexible architecture and lots of plugins for applications
This is a simplified method taken from the manuls on how to perform the initial configuration on Data Domain system
To obtain maximum efficiency and system utilisation, there are parameters that can be adjusted to tune the NetWorker environmen
Several factors affect a NetWorker server performance, including CPU, memory, paths and IO bandwidth and network bandwidth
To disable a service under Solaris 10 we use the svcadm command.
Creating an avamar schedule for your backup policies is a must for any systems administrator. This post shows you how to step-by-step.
Prereqs to a successful VADP restore are that the virtual machine be removed from the Inventory in VCenter.
Avamar events can be quite tedious to acknowledge when you have a large number appearing in the GUI. This one-liner tip will acnowledge all events.
CYGWIN has many utilities you can install to make life as a UNIX administrator more homely within a windows environment, except cron
HOW TO: Setup SAN boot for RHEL 6.x using native multipath on EMC storage
Moving an index on a Windows NetWorker server must be performed using the UASM utility to prevent corruption of the index files.
In a nutshell moving an index on a UNIX based NetWorker server os achieved by using the UASM command. This procedure is not for the faint hearted!
A simple procedure to mount an ISO image under the Solaris OS and present the image to Guest zones.
svcadm issues requests for actions on services executing within the SMF. Actions for a service are carried out by its assigned service agent.
A simple procedure to uninstall a solaris zone in an incomplete state
Most ZFS errors I've experienced generally fall into one of three categories. missing devices, damaged devices and data corruption.
Once the drive has been physically replaced, run the 'zfs replace' command against the device to allow it to be brought back online.
ZFS is a transactional file system. For each write request, a copy is made of the specified block protected by Copy-On-Write (COW)
If the filesystem is created in the global zone and added to the local zone via zonecfg, it may be assigned to more than one zone
Similar filesystems should be grouped together in hierarchies to make management easier.
This post provides the steps needed to create an aggregated network interface and cofigure a networker address in Solaris 11
This article provides a quick reference guide for the open SuSE operating system
This is a simple step-by-step guide on restoring files on a given Solaris system using the NetWorker recover command-line utility in NetWorker 7.x
The methods listed in this article are for obtaining the serial numbers from Avamar DataStore Gen2, Gen3 and Gen4 hardware
To retrieve an Avamar system id, you must login as either the root user or admin on your Avamar utility node, and execute the mccli command
To check your software to see if they meet minimum version requirements for installation you can use the uname comand, however...
The Oracle VM Serverlog files you should check when troubleshooting problems with Oracle VM Server
A fundamental task for any Solaris systems administrator is to know how to share and mount an NFS file system
running NSRJB as a non-root user
The Oracle VM Agent password is used by Oracle VM Manager when you discover an Oracle VM Server.
This post provides a list of basic Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) commands
The Oracle VM Agent password is used by Oracle VM Manager when you discover an Oracle VM Server.
To overide the ALOM password on the Sun Fire (V210, V240, V250 or V440) system you will need to perform the following tasks.
ZFS uses the concept of storage pools to manage physical storage. Historically, file systems were constructed on top of a single physical device.
The Best Practice Analyzer for Hyper-V has 74 scans to identify which settings are not configured, based on the Microsoft documentation and practices.
EMC PowerPath for Solaris automates data path management, failover and recovery, and optimizes load balancing to ensure application availability.
In this post we discuss how to use powermt command with practical examples.
When disks are added to an existing mirrored or RAID Z pool, the ZFS is resilvered to redistribute the data.
Using the usermod command on Solaris allows a sysadmin to unexpier/unlock a users login account
The scope of this post is to share a how to like procedure aimed at the shutdown and startup of Avamar system.
The scope of this article is to provide a how to procedure aimed at cleaning up rouge and outdated NetWorker backups held on an Avamar system.
fixing a prtdiag hang under solaris
A simple entry on how to discover or set the size for a given ZFS dataset as occasionaly we need to increase the size of a ZFS dataset.
To configure the Solaris Auditing subsystem on Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 we simply run the bsmconv command-line utility from the /etc/security directory