Missing memory in Solaris 10 with ZFS
Ever wondered all the precious memory installed on your server has gone? Among many other reasons, if you are running Solaris 10 and use ZFS file system then there may be your answer.
Solaris 10
Mount an ISO image in a Solaris Zone
There is no direct way to mount an ISO image onto a Solaris Zone. However, you can mount an ISO image onto the global zone (the server which hosts the zone) and then present it onto the guest zone.
dladm – Display Link status,speed,duplex,statistics,MTU
In the past we have to mess around with the NDD commands and stats tools like kstat to find the network link status, speed, duplex information in Sun Solaris. With Solaris 10, this has become much easier with the dladm utility. dladm is the admin utility for Data-Link Interface which helps to display informarthe like …
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PCP script to find open TCP ports and PIDs related in Solaris
PCP is a very useful security and adminitration script that can help you quickly find Processes (PIDs) having particular TCP Port(s) open, TCP ports open by specific PIDs or even list all the TCP Ports open by all PIDs running on your system.
Enable/Disable IP Forwarding in Solaris 10 without reboot
IP packet forwarding is the process of routing packets between network interfaces on one system. A packet arriving on one network interface and addressed to a host on a different network is forwarded to the appropriate interface. In Solaris 10, IP Forwarding can be enabled or disabled using the routeadm & ifconfig commands as against …
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Solaris 10 – Change IP Address without reboot
Adding or editing the IP address on a Solaris 10 server is different from the previous versions of the OS (Solaris 9, Solaris 8 etc). In the previous versions of the Solaris Operating System, you need to edit the /etc/hosts file and add/edit the entry for the IP address and the hostname.