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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By : Borges

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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

4.7 (7)

By: Borges

Overview of this book

If you are a Solaris administrator who wants to learn more about administering an Oracle Solaris system and want to go a level higher in utilizing the advanced features of Oracle Solaris, then this book is for you. A working knowledge of Solaris Administration is assumed.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. IPS and Boot Environments

1. IPS and Boot Environments

Introduction

Determining the current package publisher

Listing and collecting the information and dependencies of a package

Installing a package, verifying its content, and fixing the package corruption

Managing the IPS history and freezing and uninstalling packages

Discovering the IPS Package Manager interface

Creating, activating, and destroying a boot environment

Listing and renaming a boot environment

Configuring an IPS local repository

Configuring a secondary IPS local repository

Publishing packages into a repository

Adding big applications into a repository

Creating your own package and publishing it

Managing an IPS publisher on Solaris 11

Pinning publishers

Changing the URI and enabling and disabling a publisher

Creating a mirror repository

Removing a repository and changing the search order

Listing and creating a boot environment

Mounting, unmounting, installing, and uninstalling a package in an inactive boot environment

Activating a boot environment

Creating a boot environment from an existing one

References

2. ZFS

2. ZFS

Introduction

Creating ZFS storage pools and filesystems

Playing with ZFS faults and properties

Creating a ZFS snapshot and clone

Performing a backup in a ZFS filesystem

Handling logs and caches

Managing devices in storage pools

Configuring spare disks

Handling ZFS snapshots and clones

Playing with COMSTAR

Mirroring the root pool

ZFS shadowing

Configuring ZFS sharing with the SMB share

Setting and getting other ZFS properties

Playing with the ZFS swap

References

3. Networking

3. Networking

Introduction

Playing with Reactive Network Configuration

Internet Protocol Multipathing

Setting the link aggregation

Configuring network bridging

Configuring link protection and the DNS Client service

Configuring the DHCP server

Configuring Integrated Load Balancer

References

4. Zones

4. Zones

Introduction

Creating, administering, and using a virtual network in a zone

Managing a zone using the resource manager

Implementing a flow control

Working with migrations from physical Oracle Solaris 10 hosts to Oracle Solaris 11 Zones

References

5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services

5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services

Introduction

Reviewing SMF operations

Handling manifests and profiles

Creating SMF services

Administering inetd-controlled network services

Troubleshooting Oracle Solaris 11 services

References

6. Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server

6. Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server

Introduction

Configuring an AI server and installing a system from it

References

7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges

7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges

Introduction

Configuring and using RBAC

Playing with least privileges

References

8. Administering and Monitoring Processes

8. Administering and Monitoring Processes

Introduction

Monitoring and handling process execution

Managing processes' priority on Solaris 11

Configuring FSS and applying it to projects

References

9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance

9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance

Introduction

Configuring the syslog

Monitoring the performance on Oracle Solaris 11

References

Index

Index

Pinning publishers

It's not rare when the system has many configured publishers and it becomes necessary to ensure that a package that was installed from one publisher is not updated from another.

Personally, I've seen some situations where an installed package from a very reliable repository was corrupted by an update from another, not-so-reliable repository. That's funny. The same package exists, and it can be installed from two different repositories, but one of these repositories is less reliable, and eventually, it can offer a bad package. This is where pinning becomes useful. I guarantee that a package installed from a source (repository) will always be updated from the same repository. Let's learn how to do this.

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, it's necessary that we have a system (physical or virtual) running Oracle Solaris 11; we log in to the system as the root user and open a terminal. Access to the Internet is optional.

How to do it…

To pin a publisher, we type the following:

root@solaris11:~# pkg set-publisher --sticky solaris

Undoing the configuration is simple:

root@solaris11:~# pkg set-publisher --non-sticky solaris

Note

Any new publisher will be pinned by default.

From now on, every package will always be updated from its original repository even if an update is available from another one.

An overview of the recipe

This is an interesting situation. Usually, an administrator needs a package offered by two different publishers, each one with a determined level of reliability. In this case, we need to choose one of these and create a "sticky channel" to it.

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