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Unix geek by profession and a part time trainer by passion. I have completed my AMIE ( Computer Engineering) from Institution of Engineers ( India) and currently working as Unix technology Integration specialist in a Multinational Financial Firm, Singapore. As a system administrator my typical day life involves anything from a simple password reset to entire Data center Recovery operation. And as an Integration engineer, I do work on solutions that requires integration of different technologies on Unix platform . As an Unix administrator, for past 10 years, I had very good opportunity to work with various platform technologies like Solaris, Linux, AIX, Shell Scripting and Veritas Products.And my knowledge area partially covers Oracle DBA, Cisco Networking and Windows Administration.

Solaris Troubleshooting NIS : Adding user to NIS, when passwd file is not in /etc

This entry was posted on 7 March, 2011

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The NIS directory is /etc/nisdir, where all the NIS maps reside. Create a user in the /etc/passwd file.

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Solaris10 : SMF Troubleshooting Guide

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This item was filled under [ Blog for Unix Admin, Solaris 10 Zones & LDOMs, Solaris Admin ]

SMF logfiles can be found in the following locations: /var/svc/log & /etc/svc/volatile The SMF manifests and methods may be found here: /var/svc/manifest/* /lib/svc/method/* To see the log file location for a given service use: #svcs -l <FMRI> | grep logfile (<FMRI> – Fault Management Resource Identifier)

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Solaris 10 : Fault Management Daemon Services

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The most important aspect of FMA to understand is the distinction between errors and faults. Errors are no longer simply written to the /var/adm/messages files for a human to diagnose, instead errors are used by the fmd (fault management daemon) to diagnose faults. Only the faults are recorded in the /var/adm/messages files. In certain cases where [...]

Solaris 8 & 9 : SAN Configuration Steps

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Steps to configure Fibre Channel (FC) storage devices on Solaris 8 & 9 servers. After reboot Oracle/Sun HBA Driver will bind to all Oracle/Sun Branded HBA Hardware, as well as, NON-Oracle/Sun Branded HBA Hardware, assuming NON-Oracle/Sun Branded HBA Driver have been properly removed.