Apparently Net-SNMP is now included in Solaris 10 by default, however it is not enabled by default. To use it you must first disable Sun's SNMP. #svcadm disable svc:/application/management/snmpdx:default Net-SNMP is part of Solaris' System Management Agent. More about that here: Solaris System Management Agent Developer's Guide Net-SNMP daemon is located at /usr/sfw/sbin/snmpd, and its … Continue reading Solaris 10 and Net-SNMP
Solaris 10
Solaris Package Management Cheat Sheet
Basic Solaris Package Management Commands
ZFS Quick Start
ZFS is a filesystem, designed by Sun, and implemented in Solaris 10. Unlike traditional filesystems, which reside on single disk devices and thus require a volume manager to use more than one device, ZFS filesystems are built on top of virtual storage pools called zpools, which elimiate the need to create individuall volumes. When creating … Continue reading ZFS Quick Start
Solaris Fair Share Scheduling and Projects
Solaris FSS is a method of resource sharing and allocation based on the importance of a process. Specifically a SHARE is a portion of a CPUs resources. In the instance below I was asked to setup FSS and Projects so that two low priority test databases could run along side production databases without any risk … Continue reading Solaris Fair Share Scheduling and Projects
Changing a Solaris Server’s IP Address
The following steps may be used to change the IP address of a Solaris system. 1. Change the host's IP in /etc/hosts for the change to take effect after reboot. If you are using Solaris 10, you must also change the host's IP in /etc/inet/ipnodes for the change to take effect after reboot. 2. Run ifconfig interface ip_address … Continue reading Changing a Solaris Server’s IP Address
Verify Solaris 10 Multipathing/Configure SAN Disk
I was attempting to troubleshoot issues as a user was complaining about slow performance on a SAN disk. First thing that I did was check to ensure that there were not any performance issues on any disks that might have been causing this users issues A quick iostat verified that everything was looking fine iostat … Continue reading Verify Solaris 10 Multipathing/Configure SAN Disk
Solaris: How to Resize a Swap Partition….on a disk without any free slices
First lets detach the swap partition (submirror) on the secondary disk. Where d1 is the metadevice and d21 is the submirror #metadetach d1 d21 d1: submirror d21 is detached metaclear d21 d21: Concat/Stripe is cleared Now lets format Secondary Disk (c1t1d1 in this example) Below is the partition table of the disk that I am … Continue reading Solaris: How to Resize a Swap Partition….on a disk without any free slices