Oracle SUN M-series has an new extended System Control Facility (XSCF) firmware with powerful console prompt. XSCF has its own processor to monitor the server hardware.Even though the server is down,XSCF will be always available until power supply coming to the server. When you are running XSCF snapshot,it will collect complete physical server information not […]
Veritas cluster Agents (VCS agents)
VCS agents: VCS agent use to communicate to the HAD (high availability daemon) with all the configuration and attributes.For an example, Mount agent should be able to monitor the filesystem and able to mount/umount the filesystem according to the given commands. Agents are multi-threaded processes that provide the logic to manage resources. VCS has one agent per resource type. The agent […]
How to kill zombie process in solaris
A zombie process or defunct process is a dead process that has completed execution but still it may be in the process table. Defunct processes are child processes that terminated. The process image in the kernel for that process is no more. It no longer exists. Defunct processes do not take up any CPU time, RAM […]
Fork Error on Solaris SPARC/X86
In Solaris ,we may encounter a fork error issue very often if the system is not tuned well.Some times due to poor application configuration, system may not able to allocate the resource or system will end-up with insufficient resources.It happens because poor system design where the “system load” vs “system configuration” are not well balanced.For an […]
How to get SUN server serial number ?
Are you breaking your head to find the Sun/oracle server serial number from Solaris operating system ? Many times it is required to get support from hardware vendor and every time we can’t go back to look at the server builds books to find it. Here I am just sharing few tips to find the server […]