I’ve talked about ipmitool a couple of times in the past, and have grown to love this super useful tool. My good friend and fellow blogging partner Mike Svoboda mentioned a few weeks back that ipmitool had a bootdev option, which can be used to tell the machine what to do the next time the [...]
I have previously written about the Solaris smbios utility, and how the utility can be used to discover various items about the hardware platform you are running on. While reviewing one of my mailing lists over the weekend, I came across a post that describes the SMB_TYPE_BASEBOARD and SMB_TYPE_SYSTEM properties. In most cases these two [...]
There are a bunch of utilities available to monitor bandwidth utilization on Linux hosts, and I’ve touched on a few in previous posts. I recently came across bwm-ng while perusing the Debian package repository, and decided to try it out. When bwm-ng is executed without any arguments, it provides a relatively simple curses interface with [...]
I periodically need to take input data from various utilities and convert it to columnar data. There are a million ways to do this, but I have come to rely on the paste utility to perform this task:
$ ls
1 11 13 15 17 19 20 4 6 9
10 12 14 16 18 2 3 5 78
$ ls | paste – – -
1 10 11
12 13 14
15 16 17
18 19 2
20 3 4
5 6 78
9
In the output above, paste will take the input given to [...]
I’m really glad to see the OpenSolaris IPS repositories growing with the amount of available packages. Large network repositories of thousands of software packages make Fedora and Ubuntu the great, easy to use Linux distributions that they are. Extending the amount of packages available to OpenSolaris just builds upon this usability!
A graph explaining the IPS [...]
In a SAN environment when dealing with external storage concepts such as EMC BCV’s, you’ll often have a request to create volumes on two different machines that are identical so replication on the back-end can occur.
When you look at a LUN presented to Solaris, it’ll appear with a cryptic name like the following:
103. c20t60060480000190100665533030393836d0 <EMC-SYMMETRIX-5771 [...]
