The version of BIND that comes with the most recent release of Solaris 10 is 9.3.6-P1. This document is meant to provide a step-by-step procedure to compile and install ...
These are the procedures used create a mirrored boot drive using the onboard RAID controller on a T5120. The same procedure can be used with any Sun system that comes ...
In a highly available server configuration it is important to eliminate any single point of failure. IPMP, or IP Multipathing, provides a mechanism for building redundant network interfaces to guard ...
Problem Description:
I have a Jumpstart infrastructure set up that has had no problems installing Solaris natively on my servers. However, when I attempt to do so within a virtual machine, ...
This was written as a quick reference guide for setting up a mirrored (RAID 1) boot device.
I used a Sun Fire V240 system for this article. The same principles ...
This article explains how to configure the ILOM (Integratred Lights Out Manager) of a Sun Microsystems server to authenticate against a Windows Active Directory user account.
To use AD accounts to ...
Solaris provides an effective and simple method of creating virtual Solaris hosts- Solaris Zones. This article provides the procedures to create and run Solaris Zones under a Solaris 10 environment. ...
This is meant to provide a step-by-step walk-through on how to build a simple JumpStart server.
For more details on further capabilities of JumpStart and other advanced installation topics please visit ...
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Published on March 2nd, 2010no comments
Under the older systems that use ALOM the command is just “break”, this no longer works under ILOM.
Run the following commands from ILOM to break a system and get to ...
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Published on February 23rd, 2010no comments
There are two ways to create a chroot jail for BIND. You can either use the -t option with named, or you can use /usr/sbin/chroot. Both procedures are provided below. ...
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Published on January 26th, 2010no comments
Before doing any patching on a Solaris system, including patching during a live upgrade, make sure you have applied all of the Sun recommended patching utility patches. The basic list ...
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Published on January 7th, 2010no comments
There are a variety of Linux software RAID-like options out there which each have their own quirks and features. Personally, I like the simplicity and functionality of mdadm. It provides ...
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Published on December 11th, 2009no comments
This is how I set up an SMTP relay server for outbound e-mail. I use this type of configuration so that I can have my servers send out messages ...
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Published on November 27th, 2009no comments
I’ve been hacking around with dtrace for a few months now. Whenever I find I have a need to use dtrace I’ll start by going over to Brendan Gregg’s ...
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Published on November 13th, 2009no comments
If your non-global zones are not properly installing try enabling zone installation debugging.
All you have to do is append the following two lines to /etc/default/lu before installing zone.
LU_DEBUG_STATE=zon
export LU_DEBUG_STATE
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