Category: Unix Administration

  • How To Configure Hardware Mirroring on Sun T2000

    How To Configure Hardware Mirroring on Sun T2000 You need a boot server or boot of a CDrom boot net -s After the client has booted, run the following command: bash; export NOINUSE_CHECK=1 Run the following command to create the RAID volumes: raidctl -c c0t0d0 c0t1d0 Answer “yes” to the prompt. Wait for the disks…

  • Recovering T2000 ALOM Passwords

    Procedure as below for reseting the T2000 ALOM password due to no scadm command available for the sun4v architecture in Solaris 10. Recovering T2000 ALOM Passwords For security reasons, this procedure is available only while accessing the system directly through the serial port. The procedure resets all ALOM NVRAM settings. To Recover Your ALOM Passwords:…

  • Enable Syslog Logging Of SSH Access

    These are the steps to enable logging of sshd on Solaris 8 Will probably work on 9 and 10, though the restart of syslog in 10 is different. Add one line to syslog configuration file vi /etc/syslog.conf auth.info /var/log/sshd.log Create the log file touch /var/log/sshd.log Enable syslog in the sshd_config (uncomment line) vi /etc/ssh/sshd_config SyslogFacility…

  • Creating ZFS filesystem on Solaris 10, x86

    Redid the installation of Solaris 10 on the X4200 patched everything Here is the process for creating the filesystem (It will be expanded when I get more disks) bash-3.00# zpool create pool c0t0d0s7 c0t1d0s7 invalid vdev specification use ‘-f’ to override the following errors: /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s7 is currently mounted on /export/home. Please see umount(1M). bash-3.00# zpool…

  • Installing ZFS on Solaris 10, x86

    The web has many entries on how to install ZFS and here is the commands I have used. The machine is a X4200 with (for now) two internal disks. I need to use this server for Perforce (versioning control) software and need a lot more diskspace. Create first a pool of all available diskspace. In…