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Archived Sun SysAdmin Articles
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08 Aug 2012
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Basic and Advanced System Services Administration in Oracle Solaris 11 [27166]
The Service Management Facility (SMF)
Rick Ramsey provides links to two articles by Glynn Foster on the Service Management Facility (SMF) in Oracle Solaris 11. In the first article Foster explains what the SMF does, and how to perform basic services administration with it in managing your system services. Foster devotes the second article to a description of service bundles and to SMF profiles, which modify services to suit a particular installation. He also discusses the use of layers, and of site profiles to manage them, to track vendor-supplied customizations and administrative customizations for services and instances of services in four discrete layers.
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31 Jul 2012
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Installing sar on Your System: A Getting-started Guide [27050]
Includes Information on Running sar in Solaris 11
Users concerned about system performance data will find Sandra Henry-Stocker's post on "Getting started with sar" a helpful guide. She shares her experience of using yum install sysstat to install sysstat on a Fedora 17 system. (She recommends apt-get install sysstat as an alternative.) With sar installed, Henry-Stocker's Fedora 17 is enabled to collect performance data every ten minutes with daily summaries available shortly before midnight. Other components that are part of the sar package include sadc, sa1, and sa2. Henry-Stocker also writes about how users can get sar (installed by default) up and running on Solaris.
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12 Jul 2012
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Delegation of Solaris Zone Administration [26855]
Enabling Management of Distinct Zones by Particular Admins
In Delegation of Solaris Zone Administration, Darren Moffat blogs that, with the Zone Delegation feature built in to Solaris 11, users delegate management of distinct zones. Moffat uses the example of zones named zoneA through zoneF and three admins to each of whom it is necessary to grant a subset of the zone management. One can either add the admin resource to the appropriate zones via zonecfg(1M) or store data directly in the RBAC database, showing all three admins and zones. One can also create an RBAC profile that then assigns the appropriate degree of administrative responsibility to each admin.
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26 Jun 2012
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Putting Together a Patching Strategy for Oracle E-Business Suite [26729]
The Right Strategy Makes Things Easy
A powerful enterprise solution is at its best only if it is kept current with a patching strategy. Oracle E-Business Suite users can find some useful suggestions toward the implementation of such a strategy in the post "Having a Proactive patch Plan in Place is the way to Go." Readers are referred from that post to another, "Patching & Maintenance Advisor: E-Business Suite 11i and R12," which covers such aspects as how to plan ahead for system downtime; patching tools in E-Business Suite; how to identify patches; and how to properly test your patching plan and move to production.
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20 Jun 2012
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z/Scope Anywhere v7.0 Delivers Secure Web Access to IBM Mainframes, AS/400, and Unix Systems [26656]
Cybele Software's Cross-Device, Cross-OS Terminal Emulator Connects Through any Browser, OS or Device
WSJ's Market Watch announces the Beta release of z/Scope Anywhere v7.0 that provides secure access to IBM Mainframes, AS/400, and UNIX systems through any browser, operating system, or device. This new cross-device, cross-OS terminal emulator from Cybele Software Inc. enables HTML5-based terminal emulation, providing secure host access from any OS or device, including PCs, MACs, Chromebooks, smart phones, and tablets, Market Watch reports. Because z/Scope Anywhere is a pure HTML5/Javascript client there is no ActiveX or Java applet to install, making z/Scope Anywhere native-firewall friendly.
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11 Jun 2012
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Three Recommended Methods for Moving Files Between Unix and Windows Systems [26530]
Secure Copy; Shared Drives; Rsync
The methods of moving files between Unix and Windows fall into three categories, writes Sandra Henry-Stocker in ITWorld. These are secure copy; shared drives; and file synchronization. She focuses on scpl and sftp commands; Samba; and Rsync, respectively. In the secure copy category, Henry-Stocker prefers pscp, which she says "works like a charm." In the category of shared drives, the writer recommends Samba, an implementation of the SMB/CIFS networking protocols. Rsync appears to be a favorite of hers for its ability to copy only the changes to a particular file, working equally well in Unix and Windows, she reports.
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