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...
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 calls...
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...
I'm pleased to be able to announce progress on our latest FIPS 140 validation of the Cryptographic Framework in Oracle Solaris. The version of the...
I'm pleased to be able to announce progress on our latest FIPS 140 validation of the Cryptographic Framework in Oracle Solaris. The version of the Cryptographic Framework in Oracle Solaris 11.4 is now listed as an Implementation Under Test for FIPS 140-2. Previous releases of Oracle Solaris 11 have been validated to FIPS 140-2 on SPARC and x86 hardware. For Oracle Solaris 11.4 the implementation of the Cryptographic Framework in userspace, underwent a fairly significant...
I'm pleased to be able to announce progress on our latest FIPS 140 validation of the Cryptographic Framework in Oracle Solaris. The version of the Cryptographic Framework in Oracle Solaris 11.4 is...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 if...
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...
When we first updated the GNOME desktop in our Solaris development builds from 2.30 to 3.18, we started a wiki page for our internal test users and developers...
When we first updated the GNOME desktop in our Solaris development builds from 2.30 to 3.18, we started a wiki page for our internal test users and developers to share tips, tricks, and troubleshooting info with each other. We kept it up as we moved to GNOME 3.24 for the Oracle Solaris 11.4 release. Now that our customers have been using it for a while, we've seen some of the same issues come up, so I've published many of the items from that page to Oracle Support Document...
When we first updated the GNOME desktop in our Solaris development builds from 2.30 to 3.18, we started a wiki page for our internal test users and developers to share tips, tricks,...
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...
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 of...
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...
I love opensource software, I use it every day, but sometimes a component I need is either not present in or at the wrong version in Oracle Solaris. We often...
I love opensource software, I use it every day, but sometimes a component I need is either not present in or at the wrong version in Oracle Solaris. We often hear the same requests from our customers too. Please can I have version x.y of opensource software FOO on Oracle Solaris 11.4. Oracle Solaris depends heavily on opensource software and we try to keep them reasonably up to date, while being careful not to break anything. However we don't have every peice of opensource...
I love opensource software, I use it every day, but sometimes a component I need is either not present in or at the wrong version in Oracle Solaris. We often hear the same requests from our customers...
Guest Author: Petr Sumbera As you may know, a new OpenJDK 12 was released which you might want to try on Oracle Solaris. There are already some great blog posts...
Guest Author: Petr Sumbera As you may know, a new OpenJDK 12 was released which you might want to try on Oracle Solaris. There are already some great blog posts out by Martin Mueller and Andrew Watkins describing how to build recent OpenJDK versions from sources. But there is an issue. To build OpenJDK you will always need previous version as a boot JDK. Basically to build OpenJDK 12 you will need OpenJDK 11 and so on. For SPARC it's rather easy as you can download Java SE...
Guest Author: Petr Sumbera As you may know, a new OpenJDK 12 was released which you might want to try on Oracle Solaris. There are already some great blog posts out by Martin Mueller and...
