In my previous write up here, I wrote a brief description of the Sun VTS (Validation and Test Suite) which can help one to run tests on any Sun Supported hardware and hardware components and report the health status and identify faulty devices. Now, lets get installing and run Sun VTS in Solaris 10.
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SunVTS, Sun Validation Test Suite, tests and validates Sun hardware by verifying the configuration and functionality of hardware controllers, devices, and platforms. SunVTS is used to ensure a “clean bill of health” of the overall system under test and its underlying hardware. Several diagnosability features incorporated in the latest release makes SunVTS an effective online/offline
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The nscd daemon is a caching daemon in Sun Solaris. It provides caching services for hosts,passwd,group,ipnodes databases using various nameservice lookups like hosts file, DNS, NIS,NIS+ and more. Each cache has a separate time-to-live for its data and modifying the local database like /etc/hosts invalidates that cache within ten seconds. nscd doesn’t cache /etc/shadow (contains
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Network File System (NFS) security in Sun Solaris can be enhanced by restricting the source ports for the client connections for NFS to be only privileged ports. The privileged port range is from 512 to 1023. Enabling this security feature for NFS in solaris, checks if the source ports from the clients from privilege ports.
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When you install Patches on Solaris, you will find quite often see error codes or Exit/Return codes when the patch installation fails. These are the return codes that indicate the cause of the failure to install the specified patch and are very helpful as point to start with in troubleshooting.
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I discussed here about resetting the password on Sun Solaris Operating system in SPARC platform. While the procedure is almost the same wherein you boot with the CD into single user mode and mount the root partition, here we discuss the procedure to reset the password for the root user on the x86 platform. It is recommeded that
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There is every little chance that one loses or rather forgets the root password of his Sun Solaris servers. In the event, this happens, there is a way out of it. Well the way and infact the only way is to reset the password as there is no way to recover it. Recovering/restting the password
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As you are aware of, every Operating System has a Hardware Compatibility List (HCL). The Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) identifies hardware that is compatible with the Operating System and provides information about available software support. Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) for Solaris 10 OS: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/ There are totally 906 system which includes OEM & System Vendor
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The Sun Device Detection Tool can help you to determine if the Devices on the system is detected by the Sun Solaris Operating System. If your device or system is already on the Hardware Compatibility List (HCL) then this may not be necessary. Click here for the HCL in Sun Solaris. However, there is no
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Solaris Operating System for x86 Installation Check Tool checks the system on which you try to install the operating system and report if the system can run the Sun solaris OS properly. The download is a simple ISO file which then needs to burnt onto a CD to create a boot CD. Once created, start
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