Among the many extraordinary features in Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11, blogs Rob Johnston is a new service smtp-notify, that can be configured to send email notifications in response to various Fault Management events, such as when a hardware component has been diagnosed as faulty. These notifications can be configured for such FMA event types as problem-diagnosed; problem-updated; problem-repaired; and problem-resolved. The smtp-notify service is enabled out-of-the-box. Further, the blog continues, the smtp-notify service can also be configured to generate notifications for SMF service state transitions.
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Service Management Facility (SMF) is one of the many new features to be found in Solaris. In one of his recent blogs Joerg Moellenkamp writes about how to configure SMF to send mail when a state transition occurs. Moellenkamp reviews the notification framework and lists the several states that SMF is able to send notifications about when transitions occur. He also goes over the installation of the daemon SMF requires in order to send mail, as well as covering the management of notifications, including notifications for a single service.
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Oracle VM Manager [23338] Sizing and Installation Directives Provided by The Underground Oracle VM Manual
Roddy Rodstein's underground manual on Oracle's server virtualization software, Oracle VM, has a few additions since we last covered it in February. The most recent chapter update is the Oracle VM Manager Sizing and Installation where Rodstein introduces the stand-alone management solution and details its resource requirements, installation prerequisites, and installation instructions.
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According to SPEC (Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation), "The SPECmail2009 benchmark measures the ability of corporate e-mail systems to meet today's demanding e-mail users over fast corporate local area networks (LAN). The SPECmail2009 benchmark simulates corporate mail server workloads that range from 250 to 10,000 or more users, using industry standard SMTP and IMAP4 protocols."
Sun has published SPECmail2009 results for the Sun Java Messaging server 7.2, which achieved a world record.
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Thanks to Sun's Project Crossbow, which enables full virtualization of the Solaris network stack, network interface cards (NICs) can now be virtualized into one or more virtual NICs (VNICs). These VNICs can then be individually configured and tuned to take advantage of the physical NIC's in-hardware capabilities and workload needs. So writes Ben Rockwood in his article for Search DataCenter.com, "Solaris Project Crossbow Offers Virtualized Network Management."
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