According to Oracle’s documentation, if you want to use SUNWjet to jumpstart a server with a ZFS Root pool and a slice 7 to put metadb on, you must first parition your drives and then launch the jumpstart.
This is particularly annoying as two opera…
This is an useful summary:
http://dtrace.org/blogs/dap/2012/08/04/illumos-tools-for-observing-processes/
It's written for illumos/solaris/smartos users but most of the tools are also available on linux.
While trying to configure the ISC DHCP server on Solaris 11 to serve my local VLANs, I wanted to restrict its usage to only three interfaces, I then issued the following setprop command:
# svccfg -s svc:/network/dhcp/server:ipv4 config/listen_ifnam…
If you wish to install solaris on multiple machines, consider the installation of an Automated Installer!
I just created a documentation that explain everything from start to finish 
Comments are welcome!
Solaris 11 Automated Installer
UPDATE: L…
More than one year ago, the WeSunSolve website has been launched publicly to address the lack of information available for the Solaris operating system.
Facing it’s success, a lot of improvements, features and stuff were added.. and visitors keeps …
New Features
Added wiki to hold the documentation;
Added the monitoring of multiple IPS Repositories;
User list now allows the user to load multiple patches at once;
Added patch timeline
Added CVE list affecting Solaris packages
Added patch link t…
Today at work, we migrated the first box to Solaris 11 and we experienced the first bug as soon as we needed to log in onto the server.
As theses delays are quite common when the SSHd is configured by default, I quickly added theses lines to remove…
Situation
Today at work, I needed to prepare the patching of a two-nodes cluster. Not only I should patch this cluster, but I should also mimic the same patching level as the currently used prod server. Well Well. Instead of making a diff of the …
A few ago, I’ve found the sfpC.pl script from Glenn Brunette which was used to check the fingerprint of any Solaris file against the SunSolve Fingerprint Database.
I’ve managed to port this script to be used against WeSunSolve fingerprint databas…
I was wondering since some times how I could authenticate on MOS using CLI.
Now I got my answer: By reversing the whole SSO auth process in a python script that generate a cookies.txt file, usable with wget.
I know that a simpler method exists us…
