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Open Source Software : MariaDB foundation

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:20:00 +0000

About MariaDB :

MariaDB is based on MySQL and is available under the terms of the GPL v2 license.It's developed by the MariaDB community with Monty Program Ab as its main steward.MariaDB is kept up to date with the latest MySQL release from the same branch.In most respects MariaDB will work exactly as MySQL: all commands, interfaces, libraries and APIs that exist in MySQL also exist in MariaDB. There is no need to convert databases to switch to MariaDB. MariaDB is a true drop in replacement of MySQL.Additionally, MariaDB has a lot of nice new features that you can take advantage of.Below are download link for MariaDB, the stable released is 5.5.28a and latest alpha released 10.0.0.

Download link : Click here to open link

Open Source Software : IPFire Linux firewall appliance software

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:55:00 +0000

IPFire is a hardened Linux appliance distribution designed for use as a firewall.It offers corporate-level network protection for anyone who needs it, from home users all the way up to large corporations, school networks and authorities.It focusses on security, stability and ease of use. A variety of add-ons can be installed with a single click, to add more features to the base system. IPFire was designed with both modularity and a high-level of flexibility in mind. You can easily deploy many variations of it, such as a firewall, a proxy server or a VPN gateway. The modular design ensures that it runs exactly what you've configured it for and nothing more. Everything is simple to manage and update through the package manager, making maintenance a breeze.The fact that IPFire is modular and flexible make it perfect for integrating into any existing security architecture. It's comes with great default settings out-of-the-box, meaning it's a snap to get going quickly.Get and try it now. Below are link to download the image file. The stable released now is IPFire 2.11 - Core Update 64.

Download link : Click to here to open link

Open Source Software : OpenNebula virtualization data centre and private cloud

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 22:22:00 +0000

What is OpenNebula ?

OpenNebula is the open-source industry standard for data center virtualization, offering the most feature-rich, flexible solution for the comprehensive management of virtualized data centers to enable on-premise IaaS clouds. OpenNebula interoperability makes cloud an evolution by leveraging existing IT assets, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in.

OpenNebula can be primarily used as a virtualization tool to manage your virtualized infrastructure in the data center or cluster, which is usually referred as Private Cloud. OpenNebula supports Hybrid Cloud to combine local infrastructure with public cloud-based infrastructure, enabling highly scalable hosting environments. OpenNebula also supports Public Clouds by providing Cloud interfaces to expose its functionality for virtual machine, storage and network management.

Benefit for using OpenNebula :

Powerful and Innovative: Most advanced and innovative enterprise-class functionality for the management of virtualized data centers to build private, public and hybrid clouds
Infrastructure Agnostic: Fully platform independent with broad support for commodity and enterprise-grade hypervisor, storage and networking resources, allowing to leverage existing IT infrastructure, protecting your investments, and avoiding vendor lock-in
Adaptable, Extensible and Integrable: Open, adaptable and extensible architecture, interfaces and components to build your customized cloud service or product
Interoperable: Cloud interoperability and portability providing cloud consumers with choice across standards and most popular cloud interfaces
Fully Open Source: OpenNebula is not a feature or performance limited edition of an Enterprise version, OpenNebula is truly open-source code, not open core, distributed under Apache license
Very Light Solution: Despite its technical sophistication and advanced functionality, OpenNebula is easy to download, install and update
Stable and Proven: Rigorously tested through an internal quality assurance process and by a large community with scalability, reliability and performance tested on many massive scalable production deployments
Mature: Development driven by user needs and matured through many release cycles
Enterprise-class Product: OpenNebula comprises all key functionalities for enterprise cloud computing, storage and networking in a single install, and ensures its long term stability and performance through a single integrated patching and updating process
One-stop Support: Wide variety of community and commercial support from the developers of OpenNebula

Open Source Software : BURG new bootloader from GRUB

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:51:00 +0000

Definition :

Burg is brand-new universal loader from GRUB, is an alternative boot loader forked from GRUB2. It uses a new object format which allows it to be built in a wider range of OS's, including Linux/Windows/OSX/Solaris/FreeBSD, etc. Burg features superior theming and has a highly configurable menu system which works at boot time in both text and graphical mode.

Information Sources : wiki.archlinux.org

News and Update : MySQL founders launch MariaDB Foundation at Oracle

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:21:00 +0000

MySQL’s co-founders are combining forces against Oracle with an independent organization to further the MariaDB fork started by Monty Widenius.The MariaDB Foundation has been announced by David Axmark, Allan Larsson and Widenius with founding members also including SkySQL chief executive Patrik Sallner, the co-founder of MySQL support specialist Percona Peter Zaitsev, and Dan Shearer of the OpenChange and Samba teams.

The Foundation, which has applied for non-profit status in the US, has received €1m in initial backing. The founders will appoint a board and confirm bylaws next February.Axmark said in a statement that MariaDB continues the work the trio started 18 years ago with MySQL, with code maintained by the same dedicated core team.“The time is right for an independent organization to safeguard the interests of MariaDB users and developers,” he said.The Foundation will review, merge, test and release changes to MariaDB and provide and infrastructure for the project and developer communities.The Foundation described its mission to:“Improve database technology, including standards implementation, interoperability with other databases, and building bridges to other types of database such as transactional and NoSQL.”

The Foundation didn’t mention Oracle specifically or in a competitive way, but it didn’t need to. Widenius has been a vocal critic of Oracle’s ownership of MySQL, speaking out against proprietary extensions that aren’t being added to the free code base, critical of what he claims is poor-quality MySQL code emanating from Oracle, and warning that Oracle will break promises it made to European regulators in 2009 over the future licensing and development of the database he helped start.

In an interview with The Reg last week, Widenius said he feared for the future of MySQL and for forks like MariaDB that he said are getting cut off by Oracle from the main code base. He fears a permanent, damaging split.Widenius left MySQL's previous owner Sun Microsystems in 2009 before the Oracle deal to buy the struggling server maker was closed. He founded MariaDB the same year and since then his MySQL has been largely maintained by his own company Widenius’ Monty Program, with companies like SkySQL supporting customers use of MariaDB and MySQL. Both hired large numbers of the MySQL engineering team who left Oracle after the Sun acquisition.

Now, however, there seems to be a determined effort to spin up MariaDB into something along the lines of an independent and broadly supported project that builds the kind of critical mass that can turn MariaDB into the new MySQL.Its path is well trodden in the open-source world against Oracle. Both the Jenkins project and the Document Foundation were created to run – respectively – forks of the Hudson continuous integration tool and the Open Office suite – Libre Office - after their new owner Oracle had claimed total ownership over their names and their development.

Oracle’s decision forced the majority of the Hudson community and Open Office members to walk out and to create their new projects, that were mirrors of the existing projects with different names and most of the same members.Stung by this, Oracle has since passed Hudson to Eclipse and Open Office to Apache. Both Jenkins and Libre Office, though, have continued to thrive, draining support and use from the original efforts.

Information Sources : www.theregister.co.uk

Open Source Software : Trixbox CE telephony system, Asterisk based platform.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:17:00 +0000

Beginning in 2004 as Asterisk@Home, the trixbox® Community Edition (CE) telephony application platform is the open source software that has quickly become the most popular Asterisk®-based distribution in the world. trixbox CE combines the best of the open source telephony tools into one easy-to-install package, along with the trixbox dashboard which provides a web-based interface to configure and manage a complete IP-PBX system. The most flexible and customizable communications platform available, trixbox CE averages over 65,000 downloads a month.

Why use trixbox CE?

Trixbox CE is the most flexible PBX system available today. If you need a highly customized solution and the trixbox Pro hybrid-hosted architecture is unfitting, use trixbox CE. Not only does trixbox CE allow you to build your own custom features and modules, but you can rely upon the community to help as well. The trixbox community is one of the largest and most active communities of trixbox and Asterisk users in the world. The members of this community work every day to help each other answer questions, resolve issues, fix bugs, make enhancements, and develop projects. trixbox CE has all the benefits of open source plus a commercial company standing behind it.

Who use trixbox CE?

Companies around the world, from two-station law firms to mid-size corporations with hundreds of users, rely on trixbox CE-based systems to run their business.

Early adopters such as eHobbies.com quickly realized the cost savings potential of a trixbox CE PBX system. eHobbies now enjoys features normally found only on systems costing tens of thousands of dollars more.

A Carl's Jr. franchise in Southern California has deployed a trixbox CE system and Linksys phones in its headquarters office, which provides phone service to 66 Carl's Jr. Restaurants.

ProMax Systems in Irvine, CA is running more than 75 stations in a very busy sales office on a trixbox CE system and Polycom phones.

Genius Products in Santa Monica, CA is now running multiple PRI connections to over 100 users using a combination of Linksys and Polycom phones for both local and remote users.

Information Sources : www.trixbox.com/products/trixbox-ce

News and Update : Japanese team targets 24Tbps optical fiber by 2014

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 11 Dec 2012 11:29:00 +0000

Three of Japan's tech giants will work together to increase data transmission speeds over optical fiber, aiming for 400Gbps per channel by 2014.Fujitsu, NTT and NEC said Tuesday they will aim to combine 60 channels using the new technology, to achieve a total data transmission rate of around 24Tbps over a single optical fiber. The companies said they will advance current techniques for multiplexing and modulation of signals, and tackle the degradation of optic signals over large distances.

In addition to brute speed, an obvious requirement as more data is exchanged online, the companies said they would try to make the new network technology as adaptable as possible to handle sudden fluctuations and changes in the network. The earthquakes that regularly rock Japan are a major test for its networks, both because of the physical damage they cause and the sudden spikes in traffic that follow as the population tries to connect and get the latest news.

A major goal of the project will be to slash power consumption to less than half of that of technologies in use today, mainly by cutting down on the amount of hardware required, the companies said in a joint news release. They will also aim to develop a single device that can both modulate and demodulate traffic, for more overall network flexibility.

Faster fiber speeds have been achieved in the past under research conditions. NTT announced it set a world record in September when it hit one petabyte per second in transfers over a single 50-kilometer fiber, which it said is the equivalent of sending 5,000 two-hour high-definition videos per second.

The same companies previously teamed up, starting in 2009, to develop transmission technology that can yield 100Gbps per channel. A product based on that research went on sale earlier this year, and the companies said their chip implementation for converting signals at those speeds is the global market leader.

The new research will be sponsored by Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications as part of a larger project to promote Japanese network technology. The government's "Research and Development Project for the Ultra-high Speed and Green Photonic Networks" is partly aimed at establishing networks that are fast and flexible enough to quickly recover when base stations are knocked out by large-scale natural disasters.

Information Sources : www.itnews.com

RHEL Linux : How to reset mysql root password

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:56:00 +0000

Notes :

This step has been tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Using the below simple steps, you can reset your mysql root password.

1.Stop mysql server:
# service mysqld stop

2.Start mysql server in safe mode. Now you have to start the mysql in safe mode with the following option
# mysqld_safe --user=mysql --skip-grant-tables --skip-networking &

3. Login to mysql server without password.Now you have to log in to mysql server without password using mysql root password.
#mysql -u root mysqlReading table information for completion of table and column names
You can turn off this feature to get a quicker startup with -A
Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 1
Server version: 5.1.47 Source distribution
Copyright (c) 2000, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software,
and you are welcome to modify and redistribute it under the GPL v2 license
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
#mysql>

4. Reset mysql root password. Run the below command without any mistake ( semicolon is a must )
# mysql> UPDATE user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘newrootpassword’) WHERE User=’root’;
# mysql> flush privileges;
# mysql> exit

5.Restart mysql server:
# service mysqld restart

6. Login to MySQL with the new password:
# root@server ]# mysql -u root -p
Enter password:
Type 'help;' or '\h' for help. Type '\c' to clear the current input statement.
mysql>

RHEL Linux : Using GRUB to change root password

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 18:35:00 +0000

Notes :

This step has been performed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

1. Log in to the console on the machine and type "reboot" or "shutdown -r," etc, if you have an account with privileges to initiate such an action. If you don't have an account with suitable privilege, try control-alt-delete (and power off) or hard power-down your machine

2. Power on the server and wait for the grub boot screen to come up. You'll may not need the GUI for this to work, but it's the only way I've done it. When the grub boot menu comes up, hit the up or down arrow key at least once to stop the automatic boot countdown timer. If you have multiple boot options, choose the one you know (or believe) is the one currently in use (actually, this shouldn't matter, but loading up an older kernel might cause issues) and press the "e" key to enter edit mode.

3. After you enter edit mode, you'll be presented with a few lines of text (dependent on how you have your grub.conf populated). Using your arrow key again, navigate to the line that starts with "kernel." Press the "e" key again, and your cursor should show up at the end of the "kernel"

4. Now that you're in edit mode, and your cursor is in the correct position, type a "space" character followed by "single." So if your boot command line was:
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELsmp ro root=/dev/sda1
it would now be:
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELsmp ro root=/dev/sda1 single

5. Now type "b" to continue the boot process and you'll be dumped into a limited shell, as root, passwordlessly. Sometimes this has seemed not to work for me if I changed my edit-focus to a line other than the "kernel" line before typing "b" .

6. The rest is gravy. You're root, so all you have to do is type "passwd", set the root password to whatever you like and reboot using your preferred method (reboot, shutdown -r, init 6, whatever works, etc). Since you're in a single-user shell, you can also instantiate a reboot by just typing "exit."

Linux : Ubuntu 13.04 daily build now available

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:57:00 +0000

Development marches on for Canonical, and not a few weeks after the release of Ubuntu 12.10, the first live daily builds for 13.04 are already being made available. The ISOs will currently work on x86, x86_64, PowerPC, Power5, and OMAP4 systems.Of course, as a pre-beta build, this is for development purposes only. Canonical recently announced that they will be dropping the Alpha releases from Ubuntu, so these will also be the only versions of Raring Ringtail until the beta is released in a few months time.

You can grab the ISOs from the : http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

Information Sources : http://www.linuxuser.co.uk

Open Source Software : Dreamworks studio animation using open sources

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:50:00 +0000

Announced nearly four months ago, 3D animation house Dreamworks, best known for movies like Shrek and How To Train Your Dragon, have finally released some of their code and tools in open source. OpenVDB is the result of this, and contains technology used in their latest film Rise of the Guardians.Announced nearly four months ago, 3D animation house Dreamworks, best known for movies like Shrek and How To Train Your Dragon, have finally released some of their code and tools in open source.OpenVDB is the result of this, and contains technology used in their latest film Rise of the Guardians.

OpenVDB is an open source C++ library comprising a novel hierarchical data structure and a suite of tools for the efficient storage and manipulation of sparse volumetric data discretized on three-dimensional grids. It is developed and maintained by DreamWorks Animation for use in volumetric applications typically encountered in feature film production. Apparently, in Laymen’s terms, this means it handles smoke and other environmental features to make sure they properly fill the space.

Information sources : http://www.linuxuser.co.uk

Open Sources Software : Puppet server management made easy

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:26:00 +0000

What is puppet?

Puppet is IT automation software that helps system administrators manage infrastructure throughout its lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to patch management and compliance. Using Puppet, you can easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage change, scaling from 10s of servers to 1000s, on-premise or in the cloud.Puppet is available as both open source and commercial software. You can see the differences here and decide which is right for your organization.

How Puppet Works?

Puppet uses a declarative, model-based approach to IT automation.

1. Define the desired state of the infrastructure’s configuration using Puppet’s declarative configuration language.

2. Simulate configuration changes before enforcing them.

3. Enforce the deployed desired state automatically, correcting any configuration drift.

4. Report on the differences between actual and desired states and any changes made enforcing the desired state.

For more explanation on Puppet system, please visit their official website : http://puppetlabs.com/

RHEV Linux : Closer to vSphere and Hyper-V

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:40:00 +0000

Open source software application provider Red Hat has released an update to its Enterprise Virtualization platform, bringing it to version 3.1. This is the first major refresh to the platform since the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 3.0 release back in January of this year.With the announcement of RHEV 3.1, Red Hat moves up a few more rungs on the enterprise-ready virtualization ladder and narrows the gap with key competitor virtualization platforms from VMware and Microsoft. According to Red Hat's statement, the 3.1 release brings with it a series of compelling new features to enhance its scalability, user administration and management interface, networking, storage, and virtual desktop functionality.

Red Hat is positioning its virtualization offering as the "only mission-critical end-to-end, open source virtualization infrastructure designed for enterprise users that is available today." To show off its raw power, Red Hat points to the fact that the platform's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor currently holds 19 of the 27 published SPECvirt_sc2010 performance benchmarks. That includes the best 2- and 4-socket scores, perhaps the most common host server type, as well as the only published 8-socket scores, showing off enterprise readiness for large organizations.

Red Hat also claims that its virtualization platform pricing is 50 to 70 percent less than alternative solutions currently on the market, giving RHEV a significant economic advantage over other players. It seems Microsoft isn't the only virtualization vendor playing the pricing card against the competition.Some of the features found in Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 include a new and improved user interface, an improved cross-platform Web administration portal, an updated reporting dashboard, and new networking capabilities.RHEV 3.1 also continues to improve on the hypervisor platform's scalability by increasing the total number of guest virtual machines each host server can run. With this latest release, RHEV can support up to 160 logical CPUs, up from 64 in the previous release. It also increases support for up to 2TB of memory per virtual machine. The KVM hypervisor has also been updated to support the latest industry-standard x86 processors such as Intel Core i3, i5, and i7 CPUs, as well as AMD 15h or Opteron G4 CPUs.

The new release expands its localization enablement with support for English, French, Spanish, simplified Chinese, and Japanese, enabling the platform to be used even more widely around the globe.Without taking anything away from these updates, Red Hat has really moved the needle on RHEV 3.1 with the addition of two other key features that makes the platform more enterprise-ready and brings it closer to feature parity with the virtualization giant, VMware.

The first feature is an updated and hardened ability that allows administrators to make snapshots and clones of running virtual machines. With snapshots, RHEV can save a copy of the running virtual machine for record-keeping purposes. These snapshots can now be created without first having to stop the virtual machine, thus maintaining environment uptime. With cloning, RHEV can now make a copy of a running virtual machine, or it can create a virual machine from a snapshot. This allows users to create copies of the state of a virtual machine at the moment the snapshot was taken. This is particularly valuable in software development environments where frequent testing takes place.

The second feature, live storage migration, may be most important addition in the new release in spite of the fact that it is currently being offered as a tech preview. Live storage migration was a huge feather in VMware's cap when it introduced the technology into vSphere. It quickly became an enterprise checklist item that customers have come to expect in a server virtualization platform.With live storage migration, users can dynamically migrate VM storage across different storage arrays without first shutting down the virtual machine(s) in question. Red Hat notes that its live storage migration will work better once it updates the underlying Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) platform on which RHEV runs. The full availability of the live storage migration feature will likely appear in a RHEV 3.1.1 update sometime early next year.Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.1 is globally available to subscribing Red Hat customers today.

Information sources : www.infoworld.com

RHEL Linux : Increase RAID speed

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:28:00 +0000

Notes :

This step applied on RHEL which running "mdadm" utility to manage Linux software RAID. Below step will optimize the disk synchronization time. Refer the step below :

Temporary Method :

1. Check current RAID minimum and maximum speed limit on system. Run below syntax.
# sysctl dev.raid.speed_limit_min
# sysctl dev.raid.speed_limit_max

2. If the minimum speed below than 50000 and maximum speed below than 200000 this will delay on disk synchronization.

3. Perform RAID speed optimization. Run below syntax. This will not permanent configuration on system.
# sysctl -w dev.raid.speed_limit_min=50000
# sysctl -w dev.raid.speed_limit_max=200000

4. Verify back the "mdstat", there should some improvement will showing up after adding below configuration.
# cat /proc/mdstat

Permanent Method :

1. To make the configuration as permanent to system, add 2 line below in "/etc/sysctl.conf". Refer below.
# cp -pr /etc/sysctl.conf /etc/sysctl.conf.bk
# vi /etc/sysctl.conf
dev.raid.speed_limit_min = 50000
dev.raid.speed_limit_max = 200000

2. Save the configuration file and perform server reboot. The changes will be made by system once server booting up. Verify on the speed improvement after applying the configuration.

RHEL Linux : Configure local repository server

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:10:00 +0000

Prerequisites:

Need the following packages on the server on which the repository will be configured:

HTTPD packages
YUM packages
Createrepo packages

Need the following package on the client that will fetch updates from the configured repository:

YUM packages

Step on repository server :

1. Copy Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5/6 DVD ISO RHELX-XXXX.iso (or the ISO of which you need to create the local repository) from Red Hat Network and create a local repository on the local Repository server. Below are step to create ISO file from RHEL DVD which contain package files.
# umount /mnt/cdrom
# dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/tmp/cdimg1.iso

2. Create the mount point for ISO file which need to mount later.
# mkdir -p /var/www/html/cdrom/iso

3. Mount the ISO file to target directory which created on step 2.
# mount -o loop /RHELX-XXXX.iso /var/www/html/cdrom/iso

4. Navigate to target parent directory.
# cd /var/www/html/cdrom

5. Run the createrepo tool to create local repository.
# createrepo .

6. Run yum to perform house keeping on yum temporary files.
# yum clean all

7. Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/file.repo which should have the contents as mentioned below.
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/file.repo
[RHEL-Repository]
name=RHEL repository
baseurl=file:///var/www/html/cdrom
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

8.Share with httpd by making sure you have lines as below in your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file.
ServerAdmin root@<ip_of_your_server> -- local repository servers IP address
DocumentRoot /var/www/html
ServerName <ip_of_your_server> -- local repository servers IP address

9. Verify the HTTPD configuration. If no issues, continue to start the services.
# httpd -t

10. Starting up HTTPD services.
# service httpd start

Step on client machine :

1. Create the repository file to point client to local server that configured. Refer below.
# vi /etc/yum.repos.d/my.repo
[RH51-Server]
name=RHEL X Server Repository
baseurl=http://<ip_of_your_server>/cdrom --local repository IP Address
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

2. Verify from client machine, test whether able to listing out the available packages file at local repository server or not.
# yum list

3. It's should listing out the available packages on server. If nothing came out, need to drill down on each of step that been done. Make sure the iptables services are stopped during this configuration.

Oracle Solaris 10 : Installing EIS security patch

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:36:00 +0000

Below are step to install full security patch on Solaris 10. The installation process will using EIS disc provided by Oracle which contain most of updated patch. Before perform the installation, please be aware to perform some of backup on system configuration files.

1. Insert the EIS disc one into machine disc drive.

2. Once disc detect by system, start shell terminal and navigate directory to installation directory. Refer below syntax.
# cd /cdrom/cdrom0/sun/install

3. Once there, execute the setup script to set the system environment. Run below syntax.
# ./setup-standard.sh

4. After that, navigate the directory to patch file location. Run below syntax.
# cd /cdrom/cdrom0/sun/patch

5. Load the EIS profile to unpack the patch file before execute it. Run below syntax.
# . /.profile

6. Make the temporary directory to unpack all the patch before installation process taking place. Run below syntax.
# mkdir /patch

7. Unpack all the system patch to directory that made on step 6. Run below syntax.
# unpack-patches /patch

8. Navigate to the patch directory, to execute the patch installation script. Run below syntax.
# cd /patch/10

9. Run patch installation script to install all the patch into system. Run below syntax.
# ./install_all_patches

10. The process will taking some time to finished. Once the process finished, the machine need to applied reboot to ensure the system made the changes on new patch. Verify the patch version once system boot up to ensure the update process success.

Oracle Solaris 10 : Installing Solaris Explorer Data Collector

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:17:00 +0000

Solaris Explorer Data Collection 3.6 (SUNWexplo) : Click here to open link

1. Refer to the link provide above for Solaris Explorer Data Collection packages. The version of package is quiet old but have test it on Solaris 10 is able to working as usual.

2. Download the Solaris explorer package (SUNWexplo.tar) at shared link provided above and transfer that file to target machine by using FTP or SFTP connection. May locate that file on your working directory.

3. Once done, extract the SUNWexplo.tar archive file. Run below syntax :
# tar -xvf SUNWexplo.tar

4. After the extraction file finished, run below syntax to start the packages installation.
# pkgadd -d . SUNWexplo

5. May fill up each of required information prompting out during installation process. This is optional step.

6. Once everything done, go to the packages directory to start stage 2 explorer packages configuration.
# cd /opt/SUNWexplo/bin

7. Execute below syntax to start stage 2 explorer packages configuration.
# ./explorer -g

8. May fill up each of required information prompting out during installation process. This is optional step.

9. Once finished on explorer packages configuration, meaning that the package installation is finished. Run below syntax to start the explorer data collection.
# ./explorer -k

General : Check product serial number on multi cross platform

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:19:00 +0000

Below are a few step to check the servers or product serial number by using command line on multi cross operating system.

Microsoft Windows :
Open windows command prompt and type below syntax to check product serial number.
# wmic bios get serialnumber
# wmic csproduct get name, identifyingnumber

Linux Ubuntu and Debian :
Open the shell terminal with root authentication and type below syntax to check product serial number.
# sudo dmidecode -s system-serial-number

Linux Red Hat, CentOS and Fedora :
Open the shell terminal with root authentication and type below syntax to check product serial number.
# sudo dmidecode -t 1 | egrep -i "serial|product"

UNIX AIX and HP-UX :
Open the shell terminal with root authentication and type below syntax to check product serial number.
# sudo echo "selclass qualifier system;info;wait;infolog" | /usr/sbin/cstm | grep -i "System serial"

Oracle Solaris 10 :
Open the shell terminal with root authentication and type below syntax to check product serial number.
# sudo /usr/sbin/prtdiag -v | egrep "Chassis Serial Number"
# sneep

Oracle SUN : XSCF command sheet

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 08:03:00 +0000

Definition of SUN XSCF :
XSCF is a combination of hardware and software management system that is attached to each server cabinet. XSCF operates independently with its own processors, memory and controllers. It can access, monitor and control a server even when the server is shut down, turned off, malfunctioning or has crashed.

XSCF Function :
XSCF monitors the server's central processing unit, RAM, attached drives, power supply, cooling system function and operating temperatures, network configurations and network access. Administrators can also remotely reset or turn servers on or off, kill network connections and produce operating system dumps to record the server's operating state. XSCF maintains logs of all its monitoring activity and can be configured to send email alerts out to network administrators.XSCF monitors can be accessed through the telnet virtual terminal protocol or via SSH – Secure Shell. XSCF can also be accessed through an ASCII terminal or Solaris and Windows workstations by using an RS232 serial connection. The network administrator can monitor server status, turn the server on and off, configure the server or configure XSCF itself by entering commands at the XSCF shell prompt.Access to XSCF is password-protected and has two levels of authority. Users with "root" authorization have full XSCF access and command privileges. The "others" group has a more restricted command set.Below are link that been shared for XSCF command sheet and user's guide. XSCF most probably using on SUN SPARC M-Series servers such like M3000, M4000, M5000, M8000 and M9000.

XSCF command sheet : Click here to open link

XSCF user's guide : Click here to open link

Oracle Solaris 10 : Solaris installation guide for x86 system

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:32:00 +0000

Below are link that been shared for step by step Solaris 10 installation guide for x86 system. You may download it for personal references in furthers.

Solaris 10 x86 installation guide : Click here to open link

Oracle Solaris 10 : Disabled system log messenges deamon

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:15:00 +0000

Below are step to temporary stop real time system messenger keep prompting on Solaris terminal screen. Most of issues, this real time messengers disturbing the troubleshooting task on terminal server.

1. Checking the "system-log" services running or not. Run syntax "svcs -a | grep system-log" to confirmed the services online or not.

2. If online, then we need to stop the services for temporary. Run syntax "svcadm disable system-log" to temporary stop the services.

3. Once troubleshooting task done, enable back the "system-log" services. Run syntax "svcadm enable system-log".

4. Ensure the services are running and online status. Run syntax "svcs -a | grep system-log" to verify.

Oracle Solaris 10 : Checking system memory size

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:09:00 +0000

Below are method to perform system memory checking. Most of below step applied on X series server which some times "prtdiag -v" not showing up full information.

1. Log in into Solaris terminal shell and switch to root authentication.

2. After that, run syntax "prtconf | head -3 |grep Mem". This syntax will prompt the memory size in MB.

3. There are most on x86 architecture will using this method, since the the "prtdiag -v" in x86 environment not showing up full hardware information.

Oracle Solaris 10 : Adding users account into the system

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 07:02:00 +0000

Notes :

All the command that using below are required to use root user authentication.

1. Log in into the system, switch to root authentication and run below syntax to create user account.
#useradd -c ‘Full Name’ -d /export/home/username -m -s /bin/bash username

2. Once done without facing up any issues. Run below to set the password for new system users.
#passwd <username>

3. Log out from the system, and try to log in back to the system using new created user id.There should be no issues if above step follow properly.

Oracle SUN : Reset ALOM user password

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 06:52:00 +0000

Notes :

This step was applied and tested on SUN SPARC T1000. Physical access to the system so that the power cables can be accessed and a serial connection can be made to the system is required for this procedure.

1. Make a connection to the ALOM serial management port.

2.Power cycle the system by unplugging the server's power supplies, waiting several seconds and then plugging the power supplies back in.

3. You should see the ALOM booting on the serial management console. Hit "Esc" (the Escape key) during the ALOM boot, before or at the point: "Return to Boot Monitor for Handshake".This will cause the system to produce the message: "Return to Boot Monitor for Handshake ESC keypress detected."

4. ALOM will now enter the "ALOM boot escape menu" and the following will be displayed:

ALOM <ESC> Menu
e - Erase ALOM NVRAM.
m - Run POST Menu.
R - Reset ALOM.
r - Return to bootmon.
Your selection:

5. To clear out the existing password you must choose 'e' to erase the ALOM NVRAM. After using the 'e' option to erase the NVRAM choose the 'r' option to resume the ALOM boot. You will automatically be logged in as user 'admin' with no password and no permissions. The NVRAM settings will be reset to their factory defaults. Note that since this procedure resets the NVRAM settings to their defaults any customization (such as the ALOM network settings) will need to be recreated.

Oracle Solaris 10 : Reset root password using fail-safe mode.

noreply@blogger.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 06:44:00 +0000

If you encountered the issues forgotten the root password. Below are the solution for the issues.

Notes :
This step has been applied and tested on SPARC T-Series machine.

1. On Solaris OK prompt, run syntax : "boot -F failsafe". The system will boot up into Solaris fail-safe mode.

2. Once in fail-safe mode, mount the root disk into /a. Run syntax : "mount <root-disk> /a"

3. After that, perform file system checking to ensure no file system issues before editing the related password file. This step also to avoid you facing up password file corruption. Run syntax : "fsck -y <root-disk>".

4. Once done, perform backup on related password files. Run syntax : "cp /a/etc/passwd /a/etc/passwd.bk" and "cp /a/etc/shadow /a/etc/shadow.bk"

5. After that, verify each of line on the file. This to ensure the both of password files indicate the same line. Run syntax: "cat /a/etc/passwd | wc -l" and "cat /a/etc/shadow | wc -l".

6. Before editing the shadow file. Load the terminal shell mode to run vi editor as usual.
#TERM=vt100
#export TERM

7. Once done, edit the shadow file, run syntax "vi /a/etc/shadow" and delete the encrypted password in root user line.

8. Once finished, boot the machine into single user mode and set the root password back as usual.