How to sync the data between two servers without using SAN replication ? Do you have better than RSYNC tool for this job ? I don’t think so, you we will not get better than RSYNC. It uses ‘rsync algorithm’ which provides a very fast method for syncing the directories or filesystems. An important feature of […]
Unix admin scripts
SCRIPT:To calculate VXVM’s vxprint values & vxdisk size
We have seen how to calculate the vxprint and vxdisk values manually in the last post.But in very busy work schedule, its very difficult to spend time for calculating those values.I have developed the bash shell script(works for solaris) which will give you the volume size ,plex size,Disk size and sub-disk size (GB’s) of specific diskgroup in seconds.Adding to that this script […]
How to find the Solaris global zone from local zone using script
Many of the Solaris administrators will break their head to find Solaris global zone name from localzone. These kind of questions may asked in interviews too.How do you find it ? The answer is No.There is no simple command to find it.Because Oracle (Sun microsystems ) designed the Solaris zones in such a way for that, you can’t find the global zone from local […]
Solaris 10 – Local zone wise utilization Report using zonestat
I am sure many of the Solaris administrators will break their head in an order to find Solaris local zones wise resource utilization details on oracle Solaris 10. Because there is no simple inbuilt tool to find these details in Solaris 10 (Apart from prstat -Z). I just come across Jeff Victor’s Blog and found this […]
Solaris – Memory & Swap Usage Script
How to find the exact memory and swap usage of Solaris server? Solaris uses the memory as /tmp and swap will be calculated along with physical memory. We need to use the right commands to figure out the utilization of both. “top” is one if the best monitoring tool but it’s not inbuilt in Solaris 10. I have created […]