Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By : Alexandre Borges

Book Image

Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By: Alexandre Borges

Overview of this book

Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Author

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

About the Reviewers

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

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IPS and Boot Environments

IPS and Boot Environments

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

ZFS

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

Configuring ZFS sharing with the SMB share

Setting and getting other ZFS properties

Playing with the ZFS swap

Networking

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

Zones

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

Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services

Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services

Reviewing SMF operations

Handling manifests and profiles

Creating SMF services

Administering inetd-controlled network services

Troubleshooting Oracle Solaris 11 services

Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server

Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server

Configuring an AI server and installing a system from it

Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges

Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges

Configuring and using RBAC

Playing with least privileges

Administering and Monitoring Processes

Administering and Monitoring Processes

Monitoring and handling process execution

Managing processes' priority on Solaris 11

Configuring FSS and applying it to projects

Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance

Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance

Configuring the syslog

Monitoring the performance on Oracle Solaris 11

Index

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Playing with the ZFS swap

One of the toughest jobs in Oracle Solaris 11 is to calculate the optimal size of the swap area. Roughly, the operating system's virtual memory is made from a sum of RAM and swap, and its correct provisioning helps the application's performance. Unfortunately, when Oracle Solaris 11 is initially installed, the correct swap size can be underestimated or overestimated, given that any possible mistake can be corrected easily. This section will show you how to manage this issue.

Getting ready

This recipe requires a virtual machine (VMware or VirtualBox) with Oracle Solaris 11 installed and 4 GB RAM. Additionally, it's necessary to have access to eight 4 GB disks.

How to do it…

According to Oracle, there is an estimate during the installation process that Solaris needs around one-fourth of the RAM space for a swap area in the disk. However, for historical reasons, administrators still believe in the myth that swap space should be equal or bigger than twice the RAM size for...