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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By : Borges
Book Image

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.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
10
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...