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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By : Borges
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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

4.7 (7)
By: Borges
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Overview of this book

If you are a Solaris administrator who wants to learn more about administering an Oracle Solaris system and want to go a level higher in utilizing the advanced features of Oracle Solaris, then this book is for you. A working knowledge of Solaris Administration is assumed.
Table of Contents (11 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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1. IPS and Boot Environments
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1. IPS and Boot Environments
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Introduction
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Determining the current package publisher
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Listing and collecting the information and dependencies of a package
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Installing a package, verifying its content, and fixing the package corruption
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Managing the IPS history and freezing and uninstalling packages
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Discovering the IPS Package Manager interface
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Creating, activating, and destroying a boot environment
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Listing and renaming a boot environment
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Configuring an IPS local repository
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Configuring a secondary IPS local repository
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Publishing packages into a repository
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Adding big applications into a repository
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Creating your own package and publishing it
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Managing an IPS publisher on Solaris 11
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Pinning publishers
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Changing the URI and enabling and disabling a publisher
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Creating a mirror repository
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Removing a repository and changing the search order
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Listing and creating a boot environment
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Mounting, unmounting, installing, and uninstalling a package in an inactive boot environment
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Activating a boot environment
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Creating a boot environment from an existing one
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2. ZFS
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2. ZFS
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Introduction
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Creating ZFS storage pools and filesystems
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Playing with ZFS faults and properties
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Creating a ZFS snapshot and clone
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Performing a backup in a ZFS filesystem
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Handling logs and caches
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Managing devices in storage pools
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Configuring spare disks
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Handling ZFS snapshots and clones
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Playing with COMSTAR
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Mirroring the root pool
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ZFS shadowing
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Configuring ZFS sharing with the SMB share
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Setting and getting other ZFS properties
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Playing with the ZFS swap
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3. Networking
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3. Networking
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Introduction
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Playing with Reactive Network Configuration
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Internet Protocol Multipathing
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Setting the link aggregation
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Configuring network bridging
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Configuring link protection and the DNS Client service
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Configuring the DHCP server
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Configuring Integrated Load Balancer
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4. Zones
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4. Zones
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Introduction
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Creating, administering, and using a virtual network in a zone
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Managing a zone using the resource manager
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Implementing a flow control
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Working with migrations from physical Oracle Solaris 10 hosts to Oracle Solaris 11 Zones
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5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services
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5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services
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Introduction
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Reviewing SMF operations
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Handling manifests and profiles
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Creating SMF services
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Administering inetd-controlled network services
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Troubleshooting Oracle Solaris 11 services
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6. Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server
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6. Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server
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Configuring an AI server and installing a system from it
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7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges
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7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges
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Introduction
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Configuring and using RBAC
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Playing with least privileges
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8. Administering and Monitoring Processes
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8. Administering and Monitoring Processes
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Introduction
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Monitoring and handling process execution
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Managing processes' priority on Solaris 11
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Configuring FSS and applying it to projects
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9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance
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9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance
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Introduction
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Configuring the syslog
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Monitoring the performance on Oracle Solaris 11
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Index

Activating a boot environment

In a system with multiple BEs, situations might arise when it becomes necessary to activate a BE to test a patch or a new package without running the risk of losing the production environment. Therefore, a new BE will have to be created, changed, and finally, tested. However, it will have to be activated first. So, in all cases, the following recipes will be suitable.

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, it's necessary that we have a machine (physical or virtual) running Oracle Solaris 11; we log in to the system as the root user and open a terminal. Some extra disk space might be necessary.

How to do it…

First, let's activate the recently created BE:

root@solaris11:~# beadm activate solaris_test_1
root@solaris11:~# beadm list
BE               Active Mountpoint Space  Policy Created          
--               ------ ---------- -----  ------ -------          
solaris          N      /          37.96M static 2013-10-05 20:44 
solaris-backup-1 -      -          303.0K static 2013-10-26 22:49 
solaris-backup-a -      -          7.26G  static 2013-10-10 19:57 
solaris_test_1   R      -          26.06G static 2013-11-05 22:38

Now, let's reboot it:

root@solaris11:~# init 6

After rebooting, let's test the existing unrar package and command:

root@solaris11:~# beadm list
BE             Active Mountpoint Space  Policy Created          
--             ------ ---------- -----  ------ -------          
solaris        -      -          8.57M  static 2013-10-05 20:44 
solaris-backup-1 -      -          303.0K static 2013-10-26 22:49 
solaris-backup-a -      -          7.26G  static 2013-10-10 19:57 
solaris_test_1   NR      -          26.06G static 2013-11-05 22:38 

root@solaris11:~# pkg info unrar
          Name: archiver/unrar
       Summary: Rar archives extractor utility
      Category: Applications/System Utilities
         State: Installed
     Publisher: solaris
       Version: 4.1.4
 Build Release: 5.11
        Branch: 0.175.1.0.0.24.0
Packaging Date: September  4, 2012 05:05:49 PM 
          Size: 391.47 kB
          FMRI: pkg://solaris/archiver/[email protected],5.11-0.175.1.0.0.24.0:20120904T170549Z

Now, let's test our procedure by executing the following command:

root@solaris11:~# unrar
UNRAR 4.10 freeware      Copyright (c) 1993-2012 Alexander Roshal

Usage:     unrar <command> -<switch 1> -<switch N> <archive> <files...>
               <@listfiles...> <path_to_extract\>

<Commands>
  e             Extract files to current directory
  l[t,b]        List archive [technical, bare]
  p             Print file to stdout
  t             Test archive files
  v[t,b]        Verbosely list archive [technical,bare]
  x             Extract files with full path

<Switches>
  -             Stop switches scanning
  @[+]          Disable [enable] file lists

Wonderful! The unrar package has appeared on the system in the way that we planned.

An overview of the recipe

The act of activating and rebooting a BE are the final steps to be completed before we start using the BE. Likely, it's during this stage that we can test an installation package, an installation patch, or even an Oracle Solaris 11 upgrade without worrying about losing the whole system.

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