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Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

By : Philip P. Brown
Book Image

Oracle Solaris 11: First Look

By: Philip P. Brown

Overview of this book

Oracle Solaris provides innovative, built-in features that deliver breakthrough high availability, advanced security, efficiency, and industry-leading scalability and performance to help businesses grow. "Oracle Solaris 11: First Look" covers the new features and functionality of Oracle Solaris 11 and how these new features and improvements will make it easier to deploy services to the enterprise while improving performance and reducing total cost of ownership.This book starts with coverage of Image Packaging System and the new installation methods. It then moves swiftly to network configuration. The book also includes some security features and improvements.  
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle Solaris 11: First Look
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
IPS Package Reference
New ACL Permissions and Abbreviations
Index

Power management


The old pmconfig command has been replaced by the following tool, which fits in with the new naming standards nicely:

poweradm

As might be expected, this tool stores most of its configurations in the SMF database rather than in /etc/power.conf.

To see a list of values, you can use the following command:

# poweradm list
active_control/administrative-authority   smf=platform, current=platform
suspend/suspend-enable                     smf=false, current=false
active_config/time-to-full-capacity        platform=250, current=250
active_config/time-to-minimum-responsiveness  platform=0, current=0
disabled                                      platform=false

Paraphrasing a little, the preceding output shows that "the system does not have power management disabled". It also shows that "the system does not have suspend/resume capabilities", if it has not been changed. By default, if the machine hardware is capable of suspend/resume, the value will be set to true.

The other values can be...