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Unix SysAdmin Archives: August 2011
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Donation will make us pay more time on the project:. Wednesday, 31 August 2011. Sun Hardware Diagnosis at OBP level. It is so common that servers encounter issues related to hardware and those errors cannot be diagnosed by Operating system level utilities. To perform preliminary diagnosis and to pin point the hardware trouble, system admins have to rely on OBP (Open Boot PROM) diagnosis options. At OBP level, system admin have three options to investigate the issue. Displays the ethernet address. You can...
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Unix SysAdmin Archives: July 2010
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Donation will make us pay more time on the project:. Tuesday, 6 July 2010. The information on this site is for information purposes only. The Unix SysAdmin Archives assumes no liability for any inaccurate, delayed or incomplete information, nor for any actions taken in reliance thereon. Monday, 5 July 2010. Welcome to Unix SysAdmin Archives! This blog is intended for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running any unix operating system. Hope you find this archive helpful!
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Unix SysAdmin Archives: November 2011
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Donation will make us pay more time on the project:. Sunday, 20 November 2011. Just in-case you encounter a large file /var/adm/exacct/zstat-process. Here is work-around to reclaim the space. Filesystem Size Used Available Capacity Mounted on. Dev/md/dsk/d3 4.9G 4.4G 529M 90% /var. Find /var -xdev -type f -size 100000 -ls -exec du -sk {} ;. 273 2740992 -rw- - - - 1 root root 2805391217 Nov 20 06:32 /var/adm/exacct/zstat-process. Svcs -a grep zstat. Online Apr 05 svc:/application/xvm/zstat:default.
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Unix SysAdmin Archives: June 2011
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Donation will make us pay more time on the project:. Thursday, 30 June 2011. Where is the mac address located physically? Here is a quick hint. For SPARC systems, it is in the NVRAM or the Non Volatile Random Access Memory. The banner command read it from here. There are times you will find values like ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff. This could probably mean that there is a problem reading it from the NVRAM. Perhaps the NVRAM can be defective. Tuesday, 28 June 2011. How to change timeout value on GRUB. Menu timeout i...
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Unix SysAdmin Archives: man powercf
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Donation will make us pay more time on the project:. Sunday, 5 October 2014. Powercf - PowerPath Configuration Utility. After PowerPath is installed, you need to run powercf only when the physical configuration of the storage system or the host changes. Configuration changes that require you to reconfigure PowerPath devices include:. Adding or removing HBAs. Adding, removing, or changing storage system logical devices. Changing the cabling routes between HBAs and storage system ports. Powercf -q runs aut...
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Unix SysAdmin Archives: July 2011
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Donation will make us pay more time on the project:. Sunday, 10 July 2011. Error occurred during initialization of VM. Error occurred during initialization of VM. Could not reserve enough space for object heap. This is an unusual case of Java heap size. At first, we thought that Java is eating up a lot of memory but is not. According to the application owner the problem happen all the time time, and they had to open up a ticket once in a few month. Error occurred during initialization of VM. And I found ...
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Unix SysAdmin Archives: December 2011
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Donation will make us pay more time on the project:. Sunday, 25 December 2011. Ten Points when joining into a new team. So, during initial stage of new job keep your focus to understand the historical information about current environment , from the existing team, whenever you get a chance to discuss about it. 1 Know job scope of your team. 2 Know about Technical architecture of environment. Technical Architecture of Environment talks about below points :. Eg Production , Testing or Developement. A Break...
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Unix SysAdmin Archives: September 2011
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Donation will make us pay more time on the project:. Thursday, 29 September 2011. Most of us already know that Cloud Computing is a new Buzz word in the industry and it is very true that everyone want to learn about it as much as possible. For myself, I have been reading and observing cloud computing evolution for past one year, and recently I had an opportunity to attend for IBM’s SmartCloudCamp session which has given me some insight on current state of cloud computing evolution. 1 Reduced Capital Cost...
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Unix SysAdmin Archives: July 2013
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Donation will make us pay more time on the project:. Monday, 8 July 2013. How to support AIX (part1). 8226; Effective problem determination starts with a good understanding of the system and its components. 8226; The more information you have about the normal operation of a system, the better. 8211; System configuration. 8211; Operating system level. 8211; Applications installed. 8211; Baseline performance. 8211; Installation, configuration, and service manuals. A few good commands. 3 Collect system data.
