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How To Create An Oracle Solaris 113/11.4 IPS/PKG Nagios Plugins Package

[ How to create An Oracle Solaris 11 IPS/PKG Nagios Plugins Package The example below creates a Solaris Nagios Plugins package, I then show you how to publishes the Nagios pkg to your repository. Download required software First, download the latest NRPE and Nagios-plugins, you can download the Nagios plugins from here and the latest …

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Updated: Pushed version-05 of – Creating A DevOps Like Environment In Oracle Solaris

I just pushed version-05 of – Creating A DevOps Like Environment In Oracle Solaris Below are the details of this update, for the code and full detail please check out the git repository here. Version 0.5 Added: This version adds the VM/Zone image rotate i.e. -r (–rotateImg) option. With this version you can now update/rollback …

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Fix / Workaround For Solaris SMF pkg/repositories-setup Maintenance Due To Proxy Issue

The workaround below should fix the issue with the SMF Repositories-Setup going into maintenance. Below is a workaround I used to address/fix the issue with the svc:/application/pkg/system-repository:default going in to maintenance. So I am to trying to install a zone on a fresh Solaris 11.4 server, by running the below. zoneadm -z z1 install The …

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Configuring NAT Using PF Firewall in Solaris 11 / 12 Zones

Solaris 11/12 PF Firewall NAT Configuration Below is an update on how to configure NAT in Solaris 11/12, the original post used IPfilter(IPF). Since Solaris now officially switched to the BSD firewall(PF) I created the updated example below. Assumptions The network used in the kernel zones are 10.10.1.0/24 The network used on the global zone …

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How to Configure Solaris 12 as a DNS server using bind

Installing and configuring a Bind DNS server on Solaris I was recently working with an openstack installation in a Solaris environment, and to simplify the configuration I had the need to configure my own DNS server. Below are the steps required to configure a Solaris 12(11.x) DNS server, the config was using BIND 9.x. Note: …

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Recommended Network Tuning For Oracle Database and Weblogic On Solaris

Recommended performance tuning in Solaris 11 for Oracle DB and Weblogic Recommended Oracle Database Tuning. ipadm set-prop -p max_buf=16777216 tcp ipadm set-prop -p send_buf=2097152 tcp ipadm set-prop -p recv_buf=2097152 tcp ipadm set-prop -p _cwnd_max=2097152 tcp ipadm set-prop -p _conn_req_max_q=40000 tcp ipadm set-prop -p _conn_req_max_q0=40000 tcp #ipadm set-prop -p smallest_anon_port=10000 tcp #ipadm set-prop -p _time_wait_interval=10000 tcp …

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How To Install an IDR Pkg Using a p5p in Solaris 11

Installing / applying an IDR Pkg(patch) Using a .p5p in Solaris 11.x First we need to get the list of packages included in the p5p pkg list -g file:////var/tmp/idr793.1.p5p NAME (PUBLISHER)                                  VERSION                    IFO idr793                                            1                          — Then install the patch / package pkg install -g file:////var/tmp/idr793.1.p5p idr793 If the above steps is not working, then …

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