If you're like me you like new info on how you can do things better, or on features of newly released product versions. So I try to keep up with blogs other...
If you're like me you like new info on how you can do things better, or on features of newly released product versions. So I try to keep up with blogs other folks write and new versions of related products that get released and there are a few things I'd like to share. Firstly, I'd like to highlight a series of blogs by Joerg Moellenkamp on his c0t0d0s0 blog on how to use Oracle Solaris 11.4 features. Lately he's been on fire! He has released a blog nearly every day and it...
If you're like me you like new info on how you can do things better, or on features of newly released product versions. So I try to keep up with blogs other folks write and new versions of...
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...
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 it generates reports against certain benchmarks. The two main security ones are the solaris recommended security benchmark, and the pci-dss one. When 11.4 was coming out we...
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...
Oracle Solaris 11.4 has recently been certified against the Common Criteria Operating Systems Protection Profile (v4.2.1) with the SSH extension package. Many...
Oracle Solaris 11.4 has recently been certified against the Common Criteria Operating Systems Protection Profile (v4.2.1) with the SSH extension package. Many thanks to the hard work of the Oracle SecEval team and our external evaluators for making this one of the smoothest evaluations we have done. Particularly in light of the current global pandemic, some things had to be done differently but they found a way to make it work. This is the latest security validation in a...
Oracle Solaris 11.4 has recently been certified against the Common Criteria Operating Systems Protection Profile (v4.2.1) with the SSH extension package. Many thanks to the hard work of the Oracle...
As you've seen in previous blogs we've been correcting the accidental deletion of older blogs that hold still useful knowledge. After bringing back blogs by...
As you've seen in previous blogs we've been correcting the accidental deletion of older blogs that hold still useful knowledge. After bringing back blogs by James McPherson and Darryl Gove, we're now bringing back a set of blogs by one of our long time security engineers Glenn Faden. These posts he wrote under the handle Trusted Blogger cover various aspects of Oracle Solaris in the security space and how to use and configure its often unique features. Some of the older...
As you've seen in previous blogs we've been correcting the accidental deletion of older blogs that hold still useful knowledge. After bringing back blogs by James McPherson and Darryl Gove, we're now...
When migrating/evacuating a zone for the first time, the zone configuration from the source host is copied over to the target host and is never overwritten...
When migrating/evacuating a zone for the first time, the zone configuration from the source host is copied over to the target host and is never overwritten there after that. That is by design to allow for tailoring the remote configuration to fit the target HW which might be different from the source host HW. For example, your target might be CPU constrained so the zone configuration there needs the pool resource. For that reason, we chose to never overwrite an existing...
When migrating/evacuating a zone for the first time, the zone configuration from the source host is copied over to the target host and is never overwritten there after that. That is by design to allow...
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....
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 earlier really helps our support team to give you the right assistance. There's no point in sending you information on how to solve an IPS problem if the problem occurs on Solaris 10...
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...
Last year, while debugging a GNOME issue, one of our engineers filed a bug report that stated: When running gnome-tweak-tool from console and trying to add a...
Last year, while debugging a GNOME issue, one of our engineers filed a bug report that stated: When running gnome-tweak-tool from console and trying to add a new Startup Application, the following error is dumped into the console: ps: illegal option -- w ps: illegal option -- w ps: unknown output format: -o cmd usage: ps [ -aAdefHlcjLPWyZ ] [ -o format ] [ -O format ] [ -t termlist ] [ -u userlist ] [ -U userlist ] [ -G grouplist ] [ -h lgrplist ] [ -p proclist ] [ -g...
Last year, while debugging a GNOME issue, one of our engineers filed a bug report that stated: When running gnome-tweak-tool from console and trying to add a new Startup Application, the...
In previous blogs, we have discussed the great improvements available in Oracle Solaris 11.4, and how important it is for customers to plan for a move to Oracle...
In previous blogs, we have discussed the great improvements available in Oracle Solaris 11.4, and how important it is for customers to plan for a move to Oracle Solaris 11.4 as quickly as they can. We’re announcing that after January 2021 Oracle will only offer new fixes for Oracle Solaris 11.3 through Extended Support. Typically Oracle stops releasing Support Readiness Updates (SRUs) for one Oracle Solaris 11 update shortly after the next one is released, we've done this...
In previous blogs, we have discussed the great improvements available in Oracle Solaris 11.4, and how important it is for customers to plan for a move to Oracle Solaris 11.4 as quickly as they can....
Oracle Servers Forum 2020 Coming Soon Writing another short blog to give a heads-up on an upcoming online event on Oracle Solaris and Systems. The Oracle...
Oracle Servers Forum 2020 Coming Soon Writing another short blog to give a heads-up on an upcoming online event on Oracle Solaris and Systems. The Oracle Servers Forum 2020 will be held on September 29, starting at 9 AM PT, and registration is available here. We’ll talk about Oracle Solaris, SPARC, and x86 compute platforms for on-prem deployments, and how they are consistent, secure, and innovative. Customers are invited to directly engage with Oracle engineers to learn...
Oracle Servers Forum 2020 Coming Soon Writing another short blog to give a heads-up on an upcoming online event on Oracle Solaris and Systems. The Oracle Servers Forum 2020 will be held on September...
