I've been working with a support engineer on replacing an SC battery in one of T2000 servers recently, and noticed that immediately upon rebooting a server it may not be possible to get battery and fans stats because prtdiag command wouldn't work … [Continue reading] about Using Service Controller to confirm battery status
prstat – a great tool for process monitoring
Solaris administrators with solid Linux experience are usually installing top on their systems because of convenience. Quite a few administrators are aware of prstat but don't see benefits of using its format which somewhat differs from top. And … [Continue reading] about prstat – a great tool for process monitoring
Welcome to 2012!
Hi all, happy New Year! Just thought I'll take a few minutes to welcome you to the new year and to thank you once again for staying with the Solaris Blog for so long! My plans for this blog are quite humble in the view of Solaris not being a … [Continue reading] about Welcome to 2012!
Oracle Sends a Strong Message about Sun Microsystems
Really glad to see the address Larry Ellison gave to all the Sun customers on the Oracle website: more money to develop SPARC more money to develop Solaris dramatic improvement in Sun's hardware performance through tight integration with … [Continue reading] about Oracle Sends a Strong Message about Sun Microsystems
Share your Solaris OS experience and win a prize!
Just got an email from the Frontline Systems representative about a competition they're running at the moment. … [Continue reading] about Share your Solaris OS experience and win a prize!