Locale is one provided by the implementation that is accessible to the application. Locale utility writes a information about locale environment to the standard output.A locale can be composed of a base language, country of use, and codeset (Ex: CA for canada , US for united states).Normally the locale name is specified by the LANG variable.If […]
Solaris 10
How to Migrate the Local Zones on Solaris ?
How to migrate the local zones from one global zone to another global zone ? Last week, I have migrated the couple of local zones from one global zone to another global zone successfully and here I am sharing the same.In real production environment,you can balance the global zones load by moving few local zones […]
How to Break/Recover Solaris root Password ?
Every organization may have their own way to secure the root passwords for their servers. According to their security polices ,Unix administrators need to change the servers root’s password on routine basis.But sometimes due to human error, there may be chance to loose root password.Unless some of the normal user had sudo root access, you […]
Solaris – How to Scan FC LUNS and SCSI Disks ?
Application’s and Database’s storage requirement on the servers will be keep on increase day by day. According to that, Unix admin need to increase filesystem space on Unix servers periodically. Assigning big SAN space to filesystem also not possible since storage cost involved on that. So it’s a routine work for Unix admin and need […]
Latest OS Patch Bundles for Solaris
I am not happy to post Non-Technical posts on UnixArena. But I felt this post will be helpful for Solaris administrators to find the latest OS patch bundles from Oracle. Customers would like to install latest OS patch bundles to keep their systems update to date.As Unix Admin, we have to provide those patch bundles information to […]
What is GUDS ? When/How to Run on Solaris Host ?
There is no operating systems in the world without performance issues. Issue may happen due to poor system design or poor application configuration. As an Unix administrator, we will be always responsible to identify issues on the system and only Unix admin can identify it.But not all the time,Unix administrators can fix the issues and sometimes they […]
How to reduce the Security risk in Solaris ? – Generic OS Hardening steps
Is your Solaris environment is secure enough ? How can we tighten the system security ? Here we will see some basic Hardening steps for Solaris OS.Every organization should maintain hardening checklists of each operating systems which they are using it.Before server is bringing to operation/production, hardening check list needs to be verified by support […]
How to add ZPOOL-ZFS to Solaris local zones ?
Oracle is marketing Oracle’s ZFS(Zeta Byte filesystem) is the next generation filesystem. If you say next generation filesystem,will it be enhanced to support OS virtualization ? Yes.It is.Unlike VXVM, we can delegate the entire zpool to local zones.So that we can manage the entire zpool from the local zone level without logging in to global zone.It includes creating […]
How to assign VXFS FS to Solaris local zone from global ?
How to assign different type of filesystems from Solaris global zone to local zone ? The filesystem type could be type of vxfs , zfs or ufs. Oracle Solaris offers various way of assigning filesystem to Solaris zones.But we need to find out the best method for adding different type filesystems to local zones. The […]
SMF-Service Management Facility administration
Service Management facility administration:In the last post we have seen how to list the services using SMF commands and here we will see how to administrate those FMRI(Service) using SMF commands.In Solaris Operating system administration, You should have fair enough knowledge to start,stop,restart the SMF service.And also you should know how to troubleshoot if the service is not coming […]