I just saw that the opensolaris net-snmp software was updated to version 5.4.1: Author: Vijay HN Repository: /hg/onnv/onnv-gate Latest revision: 739325d040fb9f332a2ae9e196de38e06f1ec81b Total changesets: 1 Log message: LSARC 2008/355 System Management Agent (SMA1.0) migration to Net-SNMP 5.4.1 6848323 ON package changes required for SMA to net-snmp migration This is a welcome addition, and will provide admins [...]
While reviewing the cron logs on one of my Solaris hosts, I noticed a number of entries similar to the following: CMD: /opt/software/bin/arrecord -backup > arr 20359 c Thu Sep 3 23:45:00 2009 ! bad user (arr) Thu Sep 3 23:45:00 2009 < arr 20359 c Thu Sep 3 23:45:00 2009 rc=1 These errors are [...]
The PCI and PCI express interconnect technologies have become the defacto standard for connecting peripherals to most motherboards. 64-bit 66 MHZ PCI interconnects run with speeds up to 528MB/s, and share the available bandwidth between devices on the PCI bus. PCI express x32 runs with speeds up to 8 GB/s, and provides dedicated “lanes” to [...]
I attempted to upgrade my ISC DHCP installation to dhcp-4.1.1b1 this past weekend, and ran into the following configure error: $ ./configure –prefix=/bits/software/dhcp-4.1.1b1 checking for a BSD-compatible install… /bin/ginstall -c checking whether build environment is sane… yes checking for gawk… gawk checking whether make sets $(MAKE)… no checking for gcc… gcc checking for C compiler [...]
I mentioned previously that I built out some new hardware. When I was spec’ing out the hardware, I made sure to get “green” components that supported advanced power management features. Solaris is able to take advantage of the CPU power states, and can lower the processor operating frequency when a server is idle. Power managementis [...]
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 [...]
