Solaris Authentication Login with Active Directory

In most office environments users will have a Windows workstation on their desktop; most locations do not have users’ log into a Unix/Linux desktop as their primary ...

Create An RBAC Authorization To Restart a Webserver

One of the nice features of Sun Java Enterprise Webserver 7 is that you can have it create an SMF service for each webserver configuration.  Using this in conjunction with ...

Solaris IPMP: Link Based IPMP

IPMP, or IP Multipathing, is used to provide redundant network connections for your Solaris servers.  When IPMP was first release it used a probe based method for failure detection.  This ...

BIND 9.6.1-P3 on Solaris 10

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 ...

Solaris 10 Sparc patch utility patches

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 ...

Mirror boot drive on T5120 with onboard RAID controller.

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 ...

Simple Sendmail Configuration

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 ...

Dtrace 1 liners and scripts

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 ...

Solaris IPMP: Probe Based IPMP

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 ...

Enable Zone Installation Debugging

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