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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By : Borges
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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

4.7 (7)
By: Borges
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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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. IPS and Boot Environments
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1. IPS and Boot Environments
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Introduction
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Determining the current package publisher
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Listing and collecting the information and dependencies of a package
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Installing a package, verifying its content, and fixing the package corruption
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Managing the IPS history and freezing and uninstalling packages
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Discovering the IPS Package Manager interface
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Creating, activating, and destroying a boot environment
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Listing and renaming a boot environment
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Configuring an IPS local repository
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Configuring a secondary IPS local repository
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Publishing packages into a repository
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Adding big applications into a repository
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Creating your own package and publishing it
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Managing an IPS publisher on Solaris 11
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Pinning publishers
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Changing the URI and enabling and disabling a publisher
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Creating a mirror repository
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Removing a repository and changing the search order
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Listing and creating a boot environment
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Mounting, unmounting, installing, and uninstalling a package in an inactive boot environment
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Activating a boot environment
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Creating a boot environment from an existing one
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2. ZFS
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2. ZFS
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Introduction
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Creating ZFS storage pools and filesystems
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Playing with ZFS faults and properties
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Creating a ZFS snapshot and clone
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Performing a backup in a ZFS filesystem
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Handling logs and caches
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Managing devices in storage pools
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Configuring spare disks
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Handling ZFS snapshots and clones
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Playing with COMSTAR
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Mirroring the root pool
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ZFS shadowing
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Configuring ZFS sharing with the SMB share
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Setting and getting other ZFS properties
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Playing with the ZFS swap
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3. Networking
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3. Networking
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Introduction
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Playing with Reactive Network Configuration
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Internet Protocol Multipathing
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Setting the link aggregation
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Configuring network bridging
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Configuring link protection and the DNS Client service
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Configuring the DHCP server
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Configuring Integrated Load Balancer
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4. Zones
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4. Zones
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Introduction
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Creating, administering, and using a virtual network in a zone
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Managing a zone using the resource manager
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Implementing a flow control
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Working with migrations from physical Oracle Solaris 10 hosts to Oracle Solaris 11 Zones
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5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services
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5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services
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Introduction
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Reviewing SMF operations
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Handling manifests and profiles
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Creating SMF services
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Administering inetd-controlled network services
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Troubleshooting Oracle Solaris 11 services
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6. Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server
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6. Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server
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Introduction
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Configuring an AI server and installing a system from it
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7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges
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7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges
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Introduction
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Configuring and using RBAC
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Playing with least privileges
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8. Administering and Monitoring Processes
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8. Administering and Monitoring Processes
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Introduction
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Monitoring and handling process execution
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Managing processes' priority on Solaris 11
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Configuring FSS and applying it to projects
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9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance
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9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance
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Introduction
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Configuring the syslog
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Monitoring the performance on Oracle Solaris 11
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Index
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Mounting, unmounting, installing, and uninstalling a package in an inactive boot environment

Many times, we want to install a package in an inactive BE and later (maybe at night), boot this BE and test whether the programs are working. Furthermore, we can keep all BEs consistent with each other and have them contain the same packages without booting each one to install a new package.

Getting ready

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

How to do it…

We use the following commands to install a new package into a new BE (solaris_test_1):

root@solaris11:~# mkdir /solaris_test_1
root@solaris11:~# beadm mount solaris_test_1 /solaris_test_1
root@solaris11:~# beadm list
BE               Active Mountpoint      Space  Policy Created          
--               ------ ----------      -----  ------ -------          
solaris          NR     /               25.94G static 2013-10-05 20:44 
solaris-backup-1 -      -               303.0K static 2013-10-26 22:49 
solaris-backup-a -      -               7.26G  static 2013-10-10 19:57 
solaris_test_1   -      /solaris_test_1 27.37M static 2013-11-05 22:38

We install the package in this mounted boot environment by running the following command:

root@solaris11:~# pkg -R /solaris_test_1 install unrar
Packages to install: 1
DOWNLOAD                                PKGS         FILES    XFER (MB)   SPEED
Completed                                1/1           6/6      0.1/0.1  656k/s
PHASE                                          ITEMS
Installing new actions                         19/19
Updating package state database                 Done 
Updating image state                            Done 
Creating fast lookup database                   Done

The unrar package was installed into the new BE (solaris_test_1) and not into the current one (solaris). Proving this fact is easy:

root@solaris11:~# unrar
bash: unrar: command not found
root@solaris11:~#

Note

The same package can be removed using the following command:

root@solaris11:~# pkg -R /solaris_test_1 uninstall unrar

Once the unrar package has been installed, we can unmount the BE by running the following commands:

root@solaris11:~# beadm umount solaris_test_1
root@solaris11:~# beadm list
BE               Active Mountpoint Space   Policy Created          
--               ------ ---------- -----   ------ -------          
solaris          NR     /          25.94G  static 2013-10-05 20:44 
solaris-backup-1 -      -          303.0K  static 2013-10-26 22:49 
solaris-backup-a -      -          7.26G   static 2013-10-10 19:57 
solaris_test_1   -      -          122.88M static 2013-11-05 22:38

An overview of the recipe

This neat recipe taught us how to mount an inactive boot environment and install a package into this inactive BE by using the -R option to specify the mount point.

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