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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By : Borges
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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

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.

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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook
Borges
Oct, 2014 | 478 pages
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Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
10
Index
Index

Monitoring the performance on Oracle Solaris 11

When we are working in an environment with many available resources, without doubt, it is easier to administer all systems. However, how can we handle critical systems that run Oracle Solaris 11 with few free resources? How can we find and monitor these rare resources on Oracle Solaris 11?

The performance and tuning subject on Oracle Solaris is a very long and dense topic to be explained in a complete way; it deserves an entire book dedicated to all its details. However, we will learn enough monitor details and commands that will motivate you to study this topic deeply.

Getting ready

This recipe requires a virtual machine (VirtualBox or VMware) that runs Oracle Solaris 11 with 2 GB RAM at least. It is recommended that the system has two or more processors or cores.

How to do it…

Fundamentally, Oracle Solaris 11 is composed of CPU, RAM, and I/O devices, and there are many ways to monitor the system. Furthermore, there are some parameters that are...

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