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PCP script to find open TCP ports and PIDs related in Solaris
PCP is a very useful security and adminitration script that can help you quickly find Processes (PIDs) having particular TCP Port(s) open, TCP ports open by specific PIDs or even list all the TCP Ports...
View ArticleFind Chasis Serial Number using sneep
sneep (Serial Number in EEPROM) is a cool utility for Solaris that can retreive the Chasis Serial Number (CSN) or the Product Serial Number (PSN). This comes real handy when taking inventory or when...
View Articledladm – Display Link status,speed,duplex,statistics,MTU
In the past we have to mess around with the NDD commands and stats tools like kstat to find the network link status, speed, duplex information in Sun Solaris. With Solaris 10, this has become much...
View ArticleOBP Error: FATAL: system is not bootable, boot command is disabled
When you run any boot command like “boot net” or “boot -s” from the OK prompt (OBP), you may end up with the error FATAL: system is not bootable, boot command is disabled Don’t panic!!! This error...
View ArticleInstall Sybase Perl module in Solaris 10
Installing Perl modules in Sun Solaris is not as straight forward but is not very difficult as well. Perl module installations in Sun Solaris needs GNU Make rather than the default make tool...
View ArticleHow to find System Serial Number in x86 using ipmitool
As we discussed earlier here, you can find the serial number of a Sun Hardware using the utility “sneep”. However, in Sun X86 systems, you can use the pre-installed tool “ipmitool” to find the system...
View ArticleFix errors in commands in Sun ILOM
There has been more than one instance when the Sun ILOM was not responsive to commands or were throwing errors. For instance, when you try to run the following command to reset the ILOM -> reset /SP...
View ArticleError ‘shmget’ call failed with error number 22 (Invalid argument)
The following error on the Sybase ASE intalled on Sun Solaris can occur if the Maximum shared memory allocated is max’d out or if none is allocated, it takes the default value which is “Total Physical...
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tcpdrop – Drop TCP connections in Solaris
tcpdrop is a free utility to drop an established TCP connection in Sun solaris. It is a port of the tcpdrop utility from FreeBSD and openBSD. tcpdrop doesn’t do what it says on the tin and nothing more...
View ArticleGNU Tools out of the box in Solaris 11
Leaving aside the performance improvements and re-engineering and architectural changes in Solaris 11, one of the significant and noticeable changes that comes along with Solaris 11 is the...
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