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Solaris Dynamic Pool Resource Capping With Examples

Contents 1 Resource Capping available now 1.1 CPU capping for zones 1.2 Memory capping for zones 1.3 Memory capping settings coming soon 1.4 Resource capping Helpful Tips Resource Capping available now Note: It is now much simpler to configure caps in the most recent Solaris versions click here for an example This document assumes your …

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Solaris network statistics utility (only Solaris 10)

Capturing Network statistics on Solaris 10 Latest nicstat utility is available here. The latest nicstat utility is compiled and might work better, below is the older perl version. The latest version is also on sourceforge Example script output Time Int rKB/s wKB/s rPk/s wPk/s rAvs wAvs  %Util Sat 00:26:33 aggr1 60562.9 1521.4 41090.4 20494.1 1509.3 …

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Oracle T5-4 OVM for SPARC (ldom) – Root Domain Configuration

Contents 1 NetBackup Oracle VM for SPARC configuration 1.1 Primary domain config 1.2 Primary network config 1.2.1 BKM ldom config 1.2.2 Configure CD-Rom for OS install 1.2.3 Configure DCX/FC switch zoning for SAN boot Disk 1.3 Configure PCI bus / Ethernet & FC slots 1.3.1 Remove PCI bus from the primary domain 1.3.1.1 Turn on …

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Solaris ISCSI EMC Configuration (and maybe others)

Contents 1 First create the ISCSI lun on the EMC array 1.1 On EMC 1.2 On Client host 1.3 checkout the client’s initiator… 1.4 On EMC 1.5 On Client host 1.6 sendtargets discovery enable 1.7 add a discovery address (emc) 1.8 show what’s exported 1.9 enable the device… 1.10 see what’s there… 1.11 create file …

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Oracle T5-2 OVM for SPARC (ldom) – Root Domain Configuration

Contents 1 Oracle VM for SPARC configuration for T5-2 1.1 Primary domain config 1.2 Primary network config 1.2.1 T5-2 ldom config 1.2.2 Configure CD-Rom for OS install 1.2.3 Configure DCX/FC switch zoning for SAN boot Disk 1.3 Configure PCI bus / Ethernet & FC slots 1.4 Save the ldom config / configure ldom auto save …

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Enabling Solaris BSM to send the security logs remote

Enabling BSM on Solaris 10 to send BSM security logs remotely To enable Solaris Basic Security Module(BSM) just run the enable BSM script (/etc/security/bsmconv). A Solaris auto configure script the script will enable and configure BSM to log with syslog and is available here. Note1: The server will need to be rebooted for changes to …

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Configuring Solaris 11 as a cups print server

Contents 1 Install all require cups packages 2 Enable cups daemons 3 Accessing the cups web GUI 4 Configure cupsd.conf 5 Copy Optio files 5.1 Option and hostid 6 New Solaris 11 printadm 7 Appendx A 8 References Install all require cups packages Install cups bindery’s pkg install \ print/cups \ print/cups/filter/foomatic-db \ print/cups/filter/foomatic-db-engine \ …

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External Sendmail SMTP Mail Server Configuration on Solaris

Contents 1 Create a DNS zone record for Mail (SMTP) 1.1 Configure and setup sendmail configuration(mc) file 1.1.1 Setup the mc file 1.1.2 compile the main.mc file 1.2 restart sendmail 1.3 Update all client servers with the latest mail server Create a DNS zone record for Mail (SMTP) Configure and setup sendmail configuration(mc) file cd …

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