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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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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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How to create a Solaris IPS PKG

The below example creates a Solaris pkg from the Nagios application, you can then publishes the pkg to a Solaris repository. Note: To see how-to publish this pkg to a Solaris repository click here Extract legacy pkg to temp directory mkdir nrpe-pkg-source nagios-plugins-pkg-source pkgtrans nagios-plugins-1.4.16-sol10-i386-local nagios-plugins-pkg-source pkgtrans nrpe-2.14-sol10-i386-local nrpe-pkg-source Create a directory with all files …

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How to add a p5p pkg to a Solaris 11 repo

First you add the IDR/p5p file to the repo Note: To see how-to create a Solaris pkg click here pkgrecv -d /var/mnt/virtlibs/1362593673064/1495c928-9096-4e11-9958-25856df9b57f/data -s /tmp/idr793.1.p5p “*” Processing packages for publisher solaris … Retrieving and evaluating 2 package(s)… PROCESS ITEMS GET (MB) SEND (MB) Completed 2/2 48.1/48.1 103.9/103.9 Then you refresh the repo pkgrepo refresh -s /var/mnt/virtlibs/1362593673064/1495c928-9096-4e11-9958-25856df9b57f/data …

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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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