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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By : Alexandre Borges
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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By: Alexandre Borges

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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook
Alexandre Borges
Oct, 2014 | 478 pages
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Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook
Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
Free Chapter
1
IPS and Boot Environments
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
ZFS
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
Networking
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
Zones
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
Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services
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
Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server
Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server
Introduction
Configuring an AI server and installing a system from it
References
7
Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges
Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges
Introduction
Configuring and using RBAC
Playing with least privileges
References
8
Administering and Monitoring Processes
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
Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance
Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance
Introduction
Configuring the syslog
Monitoring the performance on Oracle Solaris 11
References
Index
Index

Changing the URI and enabling and disabling a publisher

Another requirement can be to change the URI of a publisher and point it to a new repository. For example, we copied all the Oracle Solaris 11 packages to the repo directory under /repo_pool/repoimage/.

Getting ready

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

How to do it…

We alter a publisher to point to a different URI by typing the following commands:

root@solaris11:~# pkg set-publisher -g http://localhost:9999 -G http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/ solaris
root@solaris11:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
solaris                     origin   online F http://localhost:9999/
training                    origin   online F http://localhost:8888/
solarisstudio               origin   online F https://pkg.oracle.com/solarisstudio/release/
Symantec                    origin   online F file:///root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p/

Remember that the URI, http://localhost:9999, points to the repository, /repo_pool/repoimage/repo. To revert it, we execute the following command:

root@solaris11:~# pkg set-publisher -g http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/  -G http://localhost:9999 solaris

We list the publishers again by executing the following command:

root@solaris11:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
solaris                     origin   online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/
training                    origin   online F http://localhost:8888/
solarisstudio               origin   online F https://pkg.oracle.com/solarisstudio/release/
Symantec                    origin   online F file:///root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p/

Sometimes, we might be forced to disable a publisher; this task can be executed according to the following example:

root@solaris11:~# pkg set-publisher -d training
root@solaris11:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
solaris                     origin   online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/
training       (disabled)   origin   online F http://localhost:8888/
solarisstudio               origin   online F https://pkg.oracle.com/solarisstudio/release/
Symantec                    origin   online F file:///root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p/

To re-enable it, we run the following command:

root@solaris11:~# pkg set-publisher -e training

An overview of the recipe

The handling of publishers is a very common task in Oracle Solaris 11, and we're probably going to be enabling and disabling publishers very often using the pkg set-publisher command.

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