Recent Posts by Joost Pronk Van Hoogeveen

In my previous blog on the REST API in Oracle Solaris I showed how you can enable the remote REST interface on Oracle Solaris and connect to it. I also mentioned the REST API is layered on top of the Remote Administration Daemon (RAD) so it gives you access to all its modules. In this blog I wanted to highlight the IPS RAD module and how you can use it through the REST interface to do some common IPS tasks using it. Where in the previous blog I showed the initial REST...

One of the things that makes Oracle Solaris unique is how easily and transparently it can deal with different memory page sizes, officially Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS) introduced eons ago in Oracle Solaris 9. This to say the support for using larger memory pages than the standard page size (4KB on x86 and 8KB on SPARC). Anything larger than this smallest page size is seen as a "Large Page". The reason these large pages are important is for performance. As systems grew...

This blog is intended as an introduction to managing Oracle Solaris 11 through a REST interface, that is to say, managing it through http/https GET/PUT/POST/DELETE commands. Over the last few years the REST API has become a very popular way to talk to/manage services on the network. This is in part because pretty much anything can talk http/https — read: can talk over http/https and/or has an http/https server built in — so you can equally talk to and between applications,...

To make sure you're not missing out I'm giving a quick heads-up on some good technical content. So, over the last few months we held a few technical Oracle Solaris events, one virtual and two in person. (I had talked about this is a previous blog.) The first, a Virtual Seminar on Continuous Innovation in Oracle Solaris 11.4, was held on April 25th, and even though it was well attended in live form we wanted to make sure you know that the recording can still be viewed, even...

In the coming months we have some really nice in person events coming your way. First thing I wanted to mention is that we will be holding two Oracle Solaris TechDays in on April 29th in Dubai and on May 14th in Prague. These TechDays are all day events with in-depth presentations and demonstrations on various Oracle Solaris technologies and features, and how to use them. What also makes these TechDays special is that the presentations are given by Bill Nesheim -- the VP...

This post is in part tong-in-cheek, and in part serious. Last week someone told me that even the NSA (yes the National Security Agency of the USA) now advises to upgrade to Oracle Solaris 11.4 and my initial thought was "sure they do", but I was swiftly pointed to this very recent Cybersecurity Advisory they had put out (which also acts as guidance for the various government agencies). And sure enough, it states: "Upgrade to Solaris® 11.4 from earlier versions of Solaris® and...

  On another forum, the other day, Alan Coopersmith shared a nice list of recent blogs on Oracle Solaris and related topics and I thought that this would be good to share on this blog roll too. It has blogs from this blog roll as well as many others and it gives a nice insight into the recent activity in this area as well as the new features delivered via the "Continuous Innovation" process in the 11.4 SRU's. Here's the list: Update on Oracle Java on Oracle Solaris — https://blo...

As part of the Oracle Solaris 11.4 release we introduced the new StatsStore and Dashboard functionality allowing you to collect and analyze stats from all over the system that Oracle Solaris is running on. Some of these stats come from the Oracle Solaris kernel and some from userland applications. One of the interesting things about the design of the StatsStore and Dashboard however is that it also allows you to collect data from other sources like applications running on...

With the recent changes to the Oracle Java SE 8 licensing and support, which also effect the Oracle Java SE that is shipped with Oracle Solaris, we've been getting some questions. So to help clear things up we decided to write a short blog about this and other questions we get around running Java on Oracle Solaris. The key thing with regards to Oracle Java SE licensing and support is that starting in January 2019 any commercial/production use of Oracle Java will require a...