Chris Beal
Senior Principal Software Engineer
Recent Blogs
Introducing Oracle Solaris ACT Service
We are happy to announce Solaris ACT Service to make lives of administrators and engineers slightly easier. We hope this little feature helps administrators, partners, and developers to save their time.
More serviceability enhancements in SRU33 of Oracle Solaris 11.4
A couple more minor things that have been added to Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 33, which may become obvious. Fault proxying from all LDoms on T4 systems Previously this was disabled, however testing has proven this works well, so we have now enabled it. Enhanced signal information in COREDIAG-8000-1V FM...
More Enterprise Health Checks on Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 33
On the 18th of May we released SRU 33 for Oracle Solaris 11.4, for more information on what it contains, have a read of Albert's blog post. In addition to what Albert writes about there are some additional checks added to the the Enterprise Health Check compliance(8) benchmark. The Enterprise Health...
Enterprise Health Checks in Oracle Solaris
I'm blogging about this now because I realise I didn't when Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU27 came out. So it's a little bit late, but hopefully useful. Oracle Solaris 11.1 introduced the compliance(8) tool and framework. This is designed as a security audit capability, to keep your security auditor happy i...
Proxied faults defects and alerts, with more information
One thing we've been trying to do in Oracle Solaris over the last few years is make it easier for our customer to engage with support should a problem occur. And make that engagement easier for all involved. Getting the right information about the system that the problem occurred on to support earli...