In this article, we will look at DTrace toolkit which is used to troubleshoot performance issues on Solaris operating systems. One of the co-authors of Solaris Performance and Tools [McDougall2007V2], Brendan Gregg, created this toolkit. It contains numerous d-scripts as well as Perl scripts that pre-process and post-process DTrace. DTrace toolkit is included in Oracle Solaris 11 and the […]
Oracle Solaris
Find Last Patched date on Oracle Solaris
Sometimes, we might need to find the last patched date on Solaris server for PCI compliance requirement. Many organizations are started using the configuration management tools to capture last patched date or maintenance date. But in a legacy environment, we might need to do the reverse engineering to identify last patched date for the server. Let’s […]