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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
Using the command eeprom (1m) while in the Solaris O/S on SPARC platforms has been a useful way to view and set OBP parameters without bringing the entire machine offline and down to the ok prompt. Unfortunately, eeprom does not show nvalias definitions. These are most often used to specify root and mirror O/S boot [...]
