At a previous job, we had a combined Solaris Jumpstart and RedHat Kickstart server to install new systems. Now that I’ve moved on from that position, I decided I needed to reproduce that functionality — with a few differences: Support…
Tag: Solaris
IPsec, Solaris 10 and non-global zones
I have been working on joining a data-center-only VPN to be able to talk to another data-center-only VPN other by creating a IPsec tunnel between a server in each data center. I chose to use the Sun Fire V490s that…
Solaris package repository
A Solaris package repository is similar to a yum repository: a place to get Solaris SVR4 packages in datastream format. It is mostly a straightforward process to setup a repository, but I have found a few gotchas. All these examples…
xsysstats and rpc.rstatd
What is xsysstats? xsysstats is a rpc.rstatd client which graphically displays near real time performance statistics of the running unix kernel. The following statistics are available: cpu packets ipackets (packets in) opackets (packets out) pagei (page in) pageo (page out)…