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 […]
SMF-Service Management facility:Service information
As we all know that from Solaris 10 on-wards legacy method of starting and stopping service has been replaced by SMF (Service management facility) service management. Here we are not going in depth of SMF history and theory.Here we will see how to get the list of SMF service installed in server,how to see the dependencies and dependents services,Service tree map and […]
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 calculate vxvm volume size and objects size
I am very sure that many of the Unix beginners(i e. veritas volume manager) will be struggling to calculate the values from “vxprint” output and “vxdisk” output to determine the size of the objects like volume,plex,subdisks and disk. Off course there is no easy way to get the values in MB or GB using veritas command. You need […]
How to copy the files from Unix to windows ? winscp
This is a command question among the Unix beginners and windows administrator that how to copy the files from windows to Unix operating system and vise-verse.In all the Unix/Linux operating system supports secure shell which is widely used.Its very secured compared to telnet and ftp. By default ssh uses the port 22. SFTP (secure file transfer protocol & SCP (secure copy) also uses the same […]
rcapadm – Solaris Online Resource Capping
As you know, system resources like CPU,MEMORY,SWAP can be limited to Solaris local zones using capping.We do the resource capping by just using “zonecfg” command. But the changes are instantaneous ? No. You need to reboot the local zone in a order to take the settings effect.Here we will see how to make the changes instantaneous. But instantaneous […]
Solaris Zone’s Resource capping – MEMORY-CPU
Solaris Zone’s Resource capping: Resource capping is nothing but Limiting the system resources like CPU,Memory,SWAP to local zone.For an example, if you are running local zones without a resource capping,there may be high possibility that one zone will consume all the global zone resources and it will effect other local zones which are running the same global zone.We […]
How to use snoop in Solaris ?
Snoop is a inbuilt packet analyzer tool in oracle Solaris operating system.It is used for network troubleshooting and analysis.But normal user do not have permission to run snoop command.Only root user can run it.Snoop command having option to redirect the output to file.This file can be analysed later using snoop command itself or you can use wireshark tool for that.If […]
Solaris Process Inspection Commands
Oracle Solaris provides many utilities for inspecting the state of process which are running on the system.Using the process inspection commands ,we can dig in to the process in detail manner for in depth troubleshooting.Here we are going to see many process introspection command which will very handy on application trouble shooting.This article is based on Solaris internals book. Please see […]
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 […]