smtp-notify is a small, lightweight daemon that is fully managed by the Service Management Facility (SMF). It uses the interfaces delivered in libfmevent to subscribe to both software and FMA problem lifecycle events. Upon receipt of an event, it produces an email notification based on a set of notification preferences which are stored in the SMF service configuration repository.

snmp-notify will generate one of two types of SNMP traps, based on the event class. For FMA events (list.* events), snmp-notify will generate the existing sunFmProblemTrap trap as defined in /etc/net-snmp/snmp/mibs/SUN-FM-MIB.mib. For software events (swevent.*), snmp-notify will generate a sunSweventTrap trap as defined in /etc/net-snmp/snmp/mibs/SUN-SWEVENT-MIB.mib.

This RFE will enable fmd and associated SMF services in a non-global Solaris zone. The set of fmd plugins delivered into a zone will be restricted to those that are relevant - the hardware-oriented modules, particularly, will not be delivered in a non-global zone.

The first consumer of the fmd service in a non-global Solaris zone will be SMF; this will work with fmd to achieve snmp and email notifications of instance state transitions.

• Albeit the recent announcement just talked about HP and Dell, this offer is valid for all certified systems on the HCL. There are 508 server systems right now on the HCL. You will find the HCL here. If the systems isn't on the HCL, ask your vendor to certify it. So you are able to buy support and for Fujitsu Systems as well as for IBM systems for example.
• Pricing is socket-based. You pay $1000 for Oracle Premier Support for Operating Systems per year per socket for systems with one to four sockets and $2000 per socket per year for systems with more than five sockets.
• As most of my readers are interested in Solaris, i think i know the next question: As you may know, the Software License Agreement for Solaris for example just allows you to use Solaris 10 up to 90 days in production use without entitlement. This support offering provides you a non-perpetual entitlement to run Solaris 10 on a non-Oracle HW. To say it simple: It's a subscription. This entitlement is valid for the same period as your support. When you don't renew the support, you don't have an entitlement to use Solaris in production after your support expires.
• The support is provided directly from Oracle.
• The rules with Sun servers are different: You get a bundled perpetual license with your server and pay only 8% (SW) or 12% (SW+HW) of the net systems price for support.
• Albeit you have now the choice to run Solaris on non-Oracle x86 servers, i see several advantages to use Solaris on Sun equipment. Those advantages range from "Same vendor of OS and HW" to "Better integration of the system into the Fault Management Architecture of Solaris"

• Oracle today announced Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their respective x86 platforms.
• Customers will have full access to Oracle’s Premier Support for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM running on Dell and HP servers. This will enable fast and accurate issue resolution and reduced risk in a company’s operating environment

Our net take is that while it may still be hard to convince a new customer to jump on board the SPARC bandwagon, existing customers have no reason to make an abrupt migration, and can wait and see if Sun delivers on the milestones that they will reveal over the remainder of 2010 and into 2011. As these milestones are disclosed we will have further analysis.

On a related topic which we will address in more depth in future posts, Solaris on x86 will remain a solid enterprise choice for both current and new users. Customer issues with Sun were centered around SPARC and the strategic future of the company as opposed to technical issues with Solaris functionality, performance or stability. The continued availability of this proven operating environment, with an anticipation of continued investment and improvement by Oracle, is a strong positive for any customer looking for an enterprise-class Unix environment on an x86 platform.

31 libraries for Automated Cartridge System Library Software (ACSLS) connection, connected through PTPs, containing over 320,000 cartridge slots and 1,984 tape drives.

A new smf service svc:/system/zones-monitoring:default will execute a zones monitoring daemon. This daemon will implement monitoring the system configuration, managing extended accounting, and computing memory utilization on behalf of clients.

# zonestat 5 1
    SUMMARY
                        -----CPU------------- ----PHYSICAL--- ----VIRTUAL----
                   ZONE USED %PART %CAP %SHRU USED  PCT  %CAP  USED  PCT %CAP
                [total] 9.74   30%    -     - 7576M  23%    - 11.6G  24%    -
               [system] 0.28  0.8%    -     - 6535M  19%    - 10.4G  21%    -
                 global 9.10   28%    -     -  272M 0.8%    -  366M 0.7%    -
              kodiak-ab 0.32  1.0%    -     -  256M 0.7%    -  265M 0.5%    -
             kodiak-rie 0.00  0.0%    -     - 22.7M 0.0%    - 49.4M 0.1%    -

# zonestat -p -r memory -q -R average,high 30s 24h 1h

As others have pointed out, checking the facts or contacting the developers to find out the story is less juicy than it seems doesn't play well with that business model (and that's not just true for Phoronix - look at any number of the columnists for other web-based "trade publications" that generate traffic via controversial posts, and the more outraged the community gets over them and angrily passes them around to denounce, the better their numbers are - you can just imagine how many of their articles are designed to bait Groklaw or Slashdot readers).

This case adds exclusive IP stack support to Solaris 10 containers.The initial Solaris 10 container case only added support for the shared IP stack model (see PSARC/2009/253)

The proposed changes are needed to support an NFS server in a non-global zone; however, the changes are not specific to NFS. They would also be used when enabling any file sharing protocol (ie. CIFS) server for non-global zones.

jmoekamp@solsystem:~$ uname -a 
SunOS solsystem 5.11 snv_134 i86pc i386 i86pc Solaris
jmoekamp@solsystem:~$ lgrpinfo 
lgroup 0 (root):
        Children: none
        CPUs: 0-7
        Memory: installed 8.0G, allocated 3.5G, free 4.5G
        Lgroup resources: 0 (CPU); 0 (memory)
        Load: 0.0784
        Latency: 0
jmoekamp@solsystem:~$ psrinfo  -v
Status of virtual processor 0 as of: 07/22/2010 15:33:50
  on-line since 07/21/2010 20:24:00.
  The i386 processor operates at 2667 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 1 as of: 07/22/2010 15:33:50
  on-line since 07/21/2010 20:24:04.
  The i386 processor operates at 2667 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 2 as of: 07/22/2010 15:33:50
  on-line since 07/21/2010 20:24:04.
  The i386 processor operates at 2667 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 3 as of: 07/22/2010 15:33:50
  on-line since 07/21/2010 20:24:04.
  The i386 processor operates at 2667 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 4 as of: 07/22/2010 15:33:50
  on-line since 07/21/2010 20:24:04.
  The i386 processor operates at 2667 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 5 as of: 07/22/2010 15:33:50
  on-line since 07/21/2010 20:24:05.
  The i386 processor operates at 2667 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 6 as of: 07/22/2010 15:33:50
  on-line since 07/21/2010 20:24:05.
  The i386 processor operates at 2667 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.
Status of virtual processor 7 as of: 07/22/2010 15:33:50
  on-line since 07/21/2010 20:24:05.
  The i386 processor operates at 2667 MHz,
        and has an i387 compatible floating point processor.

That is a complete mis-quote, never said anything of the sort about removal of
technology. Sadly, journo's look for soundbytes.

Thanks for the link, I will follow up.

President of the UK Oracle User Group Ronan Miles told silicon.com that Oracle has achieved much more on the hardware side of things than many expected through the rationalisation of the Sun business, including the removal of technology such as X86 servers.

President of the UK Oracle User Group Ronan Miles told silicon.com that Oracle has achieved much more on the hardware side of things than many expected through the rationalisation of the Sun business.