Solaris 10 basic commands

useful OS information gathering commands

1. cat /etc/release
2. showrev
3. uname -a

Determine configured memory (includes physical memory)

1. prtconf

Determine installed processor (includes physical/virtual)

1. psrinfo
2. psrinfo -v (list virtual processors and info)
3. psrinfo -pv (list physical and accosiated virtual processors)

Determine processor platform arch and bits

1. isainfo
2. isainfo -bv (more info about processor flags)
3. isalist (list feature of processors)

Determine and change system timestamp

1. date (to reveal current timestamp)
2. date '+DateTime: %m.%d.%y @ %H.%M.%S'
3. date mmddHHMMccYY
i.e : date 050817252009 ( change system time to May 8 17:25:00 EDT 2009)

Determine current running process on system

1. ps, ps -ef
2. pgrep (search process list for matching program i.e pgrep sshd)
3. pkill (searching matching program and kill them unless a different signal is sent : i.e 'HUP')
4. pwdx (list the working directory of specified process)

Nagios 3.0 Enterprise Monitoring.

Nagios is the industry standard in enterprise-class monitoring for good reason. It allows you to gain insight into your network and fix problems before customers know they even exist. It's stable, scalable, supported, and extensible. Most importantly, it works.

I have installed nagios 3.0 and i was monitoring following services.

1.) Sendmail & mail queue
2.) Apache web servers
3.) Bind DNS servers
4.) Netbackup master and media servers
5.) VMware ESX
6.) Dell poweredge server hardware monitoring. (OpenManger plugin)
7.) APC PDU (power unit)
8.) Routers & switches
10.) CPU, Memory & Disk utilization.
11.) NTP servers

This is my first nagios 3.0 implementation nagios status map picture.










Second picture of 3D map of infrastructure.

DimDim Open Source Video Conf. and Presentation

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Dimdim is a very simple to use browser-based web conferencing service. You can show presentations, collaborate via whiteboards, chat, talk and broadcast via webcam with absolutely no download required to host, attend or even record meetings*.

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EMC Self Study materials

Powerpath Foundations Impact\impact.exe
Replication Manager Foundations Impact\impact.exe
SAN Foundations Impact\impact.exe
SnapView Foundations Impact\impact.exe
SRDF Foundations Impact\impact.exe
SRDF Foundations Impact\Thumbs.db
Symmetrix Foundations Impact\impact.exe
TimeFinder Foundations Impact\impact.exe
VisualSAN and VisualSRM Foundations Impact\impact.exe
playerPRO.zip
Centera Foundations Impact\impact.exe
Centera Foundations Impact\Thumbs.db
CLARiiON Foundations Impact\clariion impact.exe
ControlCenter Foundations Impact\impact.exe
EMC Legato NetWorker Foundations Impact\impact.exe
Mirrorview and SAN Copy Impact\impact.exe
NAS Foundations Impact\impact.exe

Download following files to get CBT

hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/90442494/UP.part1.rar.html
hxxp://rapidshare.com/files/90456600/UP.part2.rar.html

NFS with ACL ignore Umask

NFS share at client side user umask is 0022 and i want to change file and folder creation permission on share folder but without touching umask variable.

Solution:

After lots of digging i found umask is not working for NFS and NFS share so i found there is support of ACL on NFS share so i have used ACL for NFS file and folder permissions here i am not going to explain in detail but i show you my example and further you can read ACL manual for advance knowledge. I have set few permission on NFS share folder so anybody on client side create file permission will be according to ACL it will ignore UMASK Variable of Linux thats sound like great. here we go

/share <-NFS share folder where i am going to put ACL rules.

setfacl --set u::rwx,g::rwx,o::rwx /share

setfacl -d --set u::rwx,g::rwx,g:mygroup:rw,o::x- /share

Second option "-d" will set permission default for all folders and files which will newly create.

after putting permission you can verify it by "getfacl" command and "ls -l" command will mark files and directories with "+" sign.

I need your comment on this please give your input.

Good Luck!!!