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	<description>Solaris Administration secrets and programming</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>SCSA Assessment</title>
		<link>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/03/administration/scsa-assessment.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamagna Walter</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serversolaris.com/?p=111</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today i have certified as Sun Solaris Administrator for Solaris 10.  I am very happy and would like to share with all of you my good day.  Here is a link for people that is in the way to certifying to measure they knowledge and to see if they are prepared, this on line assessments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Solaris Flash Installation</title>
		<link>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/03/administration/solaris-flash-installation.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/03/administration/solaris-flash-installation.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 11:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamagna Walter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serversolaris.com/?p=110</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Flash Archive is basically a package with all the operating system configuration in a certain point of time (some kind of snapshot of the operating system) this package can be used to recover a system, to restore a backup, basicaly disaster recovery.  This Flash Archive can be stored in any storage media (CD,DVD,Tape) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAID Read / Write policies</title>
		<link>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/03/administration/raid-read-write-policies.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/03/administration/raid-read-write-policies.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamagna Walter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serversolaris.com/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You can create a RAID 0, 1, 5 and 1+0 in Solaris by using SVM.  You may also want to create a RAID-Z with ZFS which is highly recommended, it surprised me this advanced filesystem with its simplicity and power.

Read policies on Mirrors:
Round Robin : This is the default policy, reads are distributed across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NFS Commands, Daemons and Files</title>
		<link>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/02/unix-solaris-security/nfs-commands-daemons-and-files.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/02/unix-solaris-security/nfs-commands-daemons-and-files.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2009 16:09:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamagna Walter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serversolaris.com/?p=108</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This seems like the title of a novel from Dan Brown :-)  I would like to explain how NFS is composed:
Commands:

share [-F &#60;fs&#62;] [-o opts] [-d description] &#60;path&#62;
dfshares &#60;hostname&#62;
mount [-F &#60;fs&#62;] [-o opts] serverName:path mountPoint

Daemons:

nfsd : Handles filesystem exporting and file access (svc:/network/nfs/server:default)
mountd : Handles mount requests (svc:/network/nfs/server:default). Not used in NFSv4
lockd : Provides file [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Failover with NFS</title>
		<link>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/02/general/failover-with-nfs.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/02/general/failover-with-nfs.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamagna Walter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serversolaris.com/?p=107</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This time i would like to explain how to setup a failover solution for critical non-stop sites.
Suppose you have a website, its applications and static content is replicated in two machines, lets call them &#8220;content1&#8243; and &#8220;content2&#8243;.  These machines export their content directory with NFS:
To do this you edit the /etc/dfs/sharetab file and enter something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Error while setting up a NIS Server</title>
		<link>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/02/unix-solaris-security/error-while-setting-up-a-nis-server.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/02/unix-solaris-security/error-while-setting-up-a-nis-server.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamagna Walter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serversolaris.com/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have not written yet an example of how to setup a NIS Server, it has no magic at all, trust me, but sometime little error could make you loose important amount of time, like this one:
You are happily setting the nis server:
cd /var/yp/
ypinit -m

And then, after answering two questions you get:

updated audit_user
make: Warning: Target [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Propagate the disk layout in Solaris</title>
		<link>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/02/administration/propagate-the-disk-layout-in-solaris.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/02/administration/propagate-the-disk-layout-in-solaris.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 22:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamagna Walter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serversolaris.com/?p=104</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you setup multiple disks, for example to create a RAID 1 in Solaris, you may want to create one disk and copy exactly the same layout in another disk, you could do it with the format utility or you could create just the partitions in one disk and propagate it to another:

fmthard -s /tmp/disk1.txt [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adding swap space on Solaris 10</title>
		<link>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/02/administration/adding-swap-space-on-solaris-10.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2009/02/administration/adding-swap-space-on-solaris-10.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 13:27:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamagna Walter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serversolaris.com/?p=102</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Swap space management would need a large space to explain, because it envolves monitoring, troubleshooting, sizing swapspace and it usually is very close to every part of your systems.  When you need more swap space you could do two thinghs:
* Use some free space on your disk (Create a slice with format and add it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setup DHCP a Solaris DHCP client</title>
		<link>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2008/12/networking/setup-dhcp-a-solaris-dhcp-client.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2008/12/networking/setup-dhcp-a-solaris-dhcp-client.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:26:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamagna Walter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serversolaris.com/?p=101</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In my network i have setup a Linux DHCP Server and multiple Solaris machines who obtain all their network information though dhcp.  First in the Solaris machine i enable the dhcp client:

ifconfig pcn0 dhcp start

To release the IP and obtain a new one:

ifconfig pcn0 dhcp release
ifconfig pcn0 dhcp start

This is going to obtain the IP, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Solaris Management Console</title>
		<link>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2008/10/administration/using-solaris-management-console.html</link>
		<comments>http://blog.serversolaris.com/2008/10/administration/using-solaris-management-console.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lamagna Walter</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Administration]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Networking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.serversolaris.com/?p=99</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Solaris Management Console is known as a graphical user interface (GUI) that provides administration tools and the possibility to manage computers remotely inside a network.  But it is not only a nice graphical interface, it is a powerfull set of commands and a server application.
How to start SMC ?
/etc/init.d/init.wbem start
Solaris Management Console server [...]]]></description>
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