How to create and install whole root zone on Solaris10

A whole root zone contains a read/write copy of the file system . When a whole root zone is created, from GLOBAL all packages are copied onto the whole root zone, it will create a dedicated copy of all files. Steps to create Whole root zone with exclusive IP-address: Some of the pre-request tasks. 1). Collect global server network details.  2). Decide zone name what you want to create it  3). Create zone directory with absolute path  4)....

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How to Add / Change / Delete route in solaris10 on different methods

This article will explain about to add type of routes in Solaris10 . Static and Dynamic routes: The static routes are added by using the route command either by a script or by using command line. Dynamic routes are added by default routing daemons.These are the deamons /usr/sbin/in.routed (Routing Information Protocol(RIP) and /usr/sbin/in.rdisc (Router Network Discovery Protocol) which are responsible for adding dynamic routes that...

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Solaris 10 OS patching using LU (Live upgrade method)

Using Solaris Live Upgrade (LU) to patch CPU patch cluster. Generally CPU OS patch cluster will take more time to complete the patching activity dependence on the running kernel patch level. Coz this server might patch very long back so it will increase server maintenance downtime. To avoid this situation SUN / Oracle has released new feature, that is called  "LIVE UPGRADE (LU)" from Solaris 10 onward. The main advantages of Live upgrade...

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Basic Solaris interview questions and answers for L1 level

Basically this article will help you to make confident in solaris basic level,which will help you in the L1 interview panel. Below I have given some of basic solaris interview question with answer,  these question generally will ask in L1 interview panel for solaris in all the IT company's. Some of the commands are common  for all the UNIX platform . Later I will update some more L1 questions . 1. List the files...

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Basic Linux interview questions

Here some of the basic Linux interview question which will help us to pass L1 interview also will help to improve our basic skill in Linux. 1. How to know which ports are listening from your IP address? # nmap -sT -O your-ip-address 2. How to grep an exact match? # grep -w infrafile.txt 3. How to reverse grep matches? # grep -v infrafile.txt 4. How to know which service name is what port? Assuming port 443 # cat /etc/services | grep -w 443 5....

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