Many of our customers use golden images of Solaris with fully installed and configured applications to deploy their production systems. They create a golden...
Many of our customers use golden images of Solaris with fully installed and configured applications to deploy their production systems. They create a golden image by capturing a snapshot of their staging system's files in a Solaris Unified Archive. Solaris normally clears the staging system's network configuration during golden image installation. This makes sense given that each production system will have a different IP address and often resides in a different site with...
Many of our customers use golden images of Solaris with fully installed and configured applications to deploy their production systems. They create a golden image by capturing a snapshot of their...
The first item in Solaris 11.4’s list of new networking features was "Migration of persistent network configuration to SMF". Does it really matter where the...
The first item in Solaris 11.4’s list of new networking features was "Migration of persistent network configuration to SMF". Does it really matter where the network configuration is stored? Absolutely! Solaris is often installed in large data centers where manual installation and configuration of each individual system is not practical. Solaris 11's Automated Installer along with Solaris' System Management Facility (SMF) were developed to make installation and configuration...
The first item in Solaris 11.4’s list of new networking features was "Migration of persistent network configuration to SMF". Does it really matter where the network configuration is...
Oracle Open World is coming to San Francisco October 22-25! With it being less than a month away, I wanted to preview Oracle Solaris this year. With the release...
Oracle Open World is coming to San Francisco October 22-25! With it being less than a month away, I wanted to preview Oracle Solaris this year. With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 on August 28, 2018, we have much to talk about. For information about the future of Oracle Solaris and SPARC, Bill Nesheim, Senior Vice President of Oracle Solaris Development is joined by Massod Heydari, Senior Vice President of Hardware Development, and Brian Bream, Chief Technology Officer of...
Oracle Open World is coming to San Francisco October 22-25! With it being less than a month away, I wanted to preview Oracle Solaris this year. With the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4 on August...
Contributed by: Pavel Heimlich and Ales Cernosek Oracle Solaris 11.4 delivers a modern and extensible enterprise desktop environment. The desktop environment...
Contributed by: Pavel Heimlich and Ales Cernosek Oracle Solaris 11.4 delivers a modern and extensible enterprise desktop environment. The desktop environment supports and delivers an IBus (Intelligent Input Bus) runtime environment and libraries that enable customers to easily customize and build Open Source IBus Input Method Engines to suit their preference. This article explores the step-by-step process of building one of the available IBus input methods - KKC, a Japanese...
Contributed by: Pavel Heimlich and Ales Cernosek Oracle Solaris 11.4 delivers a modern and extensible enterprise desktop environment. The desktop environment supports and delivers an IBus (Intelligent...
The examples shown in this blog post were created and executed on a Solaris system. Some of these tips and examples are applicable to all *nix systems. Digest...
The examples shown in this blog post were created and executed on a Solaris system. Some of these tips and examples are applicable to all *nix systems. Digest of a File One of the typical uses of computed digest is to check if a file has been compromised or tampered. The digest utility can be used to calculate the digest of files. On Solaris, -l option lists out all cryptographic hash algorithms available on the system. eg., % digest -l sha1 md5 sha224 sha256 .. sha3_224...
The examples shown in this blog post were created and executed on a Solaris system. Some of these tips and examples are applicable to all *nix systems. Digest of a File One of the typical uses...
Oracle Solaris 11.4: The trusted business platform. I'm pleased to announce the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4. Of the four releases of Oracle Solaris that I've...
Oracle Solaris 11.4: The trusted business platform. I'm pleased to announce the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4. Of the four releases of Oracle Solaris that I've been involved in, this is the best one yet! Oracle Solaris is the trusted business platform that you depend on. Oracle Solaris 11 gives you consistent compatibility, is simple to use and is designed to always be secure. Some fun facts about Oracle Solaris 11.4 There have been 175 development builds to get us to Oracle...
Oracle Solaris 11.4: The trusted business platform. I'm pleased to announce the release of Oracle Solaris 11.4. Of the four releases of Oracle Solaris that I've been involved in, this is the best...
Help! I am trapped by my Old Application Which Cannot Change. I need to update my Oracle Solaris 11 system to a later Update and/or Support Repository Update...
Help! I am trapped by my Old Application Which Cannot Change. I need to update my Oracle Solaris 11 system to a later Update and/or Support Repository Update (SRU) but I find upon the update my favourite FOSS component has been removed. My Old Application Which Cannot Change has a dependency upon it and so no longer starts. Help! Oracle Solaris, by default, will ensure that the software installed on the system is up to date. This includes the removal (uninstall) of software...
Help! I am trapped by my Old Application Which Cannot Change. I need to update my Oracle Solaris 11 system to a later Update and/or Support Repository Update (SRU) but I find upon the update...
Keywords: Solaris package IPS+Repository pkg 1 Work on Directory Structure Start with organizing the package contents (files) into the same directory...
Keywords: Solaris package IPS+Repository pkg 1 Work on Directory Structure Start with organizing the package contents (files) into the same directory structure that you want on the installed system. In the following example the directory was organized in such a manner that when the package was installed, it results in software being copied to /opt/myutils directory. eg., # tree opt opt `-- myutils |-- docs | |-- README.txt | `-- util_description.html |-- mylib.py |--...
Keywords: Solaris package IPS+Repository pkg 1 Work on Directory Structure Start with organizing the package contents (files) into the same directory structure that you want on the installed...
