When i use inetadm m command to set the tcp tracing true, the command accepts. Target audience this document is intended for use by nagios administrators who wish to monitor solaris servers with nagios xi. Jun 11, 2008 solaris 10 ships openssl as part of the os distribution, in usrsfw. I was able to use the truss command to finally capture one of the incidents where the ls al command took over 1 minute. Solaris 10 sparc security technical implementation guide. This article documents installing the 606 june 2006 release of solaris 10 from cdrom. Dtrace is designed to quickly identify the root cause of system performance problems.
Reverse dependencies are solaris packages that depends on libreadline6. Then add the following line to the end of etcinetnf. Solaris 10 operating system product library documentation. This tutorial uses dtrace to analyze several applications. Besides the actual dtrace executable, thousands of probes were placed into the kernel. Heres a great list of whats new in solaris 10 102009. Pdf for security, management and accounting, network administrators benefit from. Nwam mode is fine for workstations, but it has limited configurability and allows only one network interface to be active at a time. Oracle how to guidehow to use oracle solaris dtrace from oracle solaris and opensolaris system 2 introduction to oracle solaris dtrace oracle solaris dtrace is a comprehensive dynamic telemetry facility that is built into oracle solaris and can be used by administrators and developers to examine the behavior of both user programs and. Can anyone point me to specific references as to what problems, if any, arise with using file locking under nfs on solaris 10.
For information about configuring resource controls, see project4, and chapter 6, resource controls overview, in system administration guide. I found the opening description of kelvins descent to solaris station too long. The basic features of the dtrace framework are introduced. This book serves as an introduction to the dynamic tracing capabilities introduced in solaris 10. This section describes significant tuning enhancements in the oracle solaris 10 release. Aziz on december 29, 2009 the network time protocol ntp is a protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over packetswitched, variablelatency data networks. Dtrace and mdb techniques for solaris 10 and solaris internalstm. Thankfully, we can convert inetd entires into the smf repository with the inetconv command. Im both surprised and glad that it made its way into many other operating systems.
Dtrace, or dynamic tracing, is a powerful diagnostic tool introduced in the solaris 10 os. The adventaje is that server reboot is no longer necessary and you can use projects withouth affecting other processes. Transitioning from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11 doc. This paper illustrates how the new security features and. Release notes rayventory portal rayventory portal 11.
Apr 30, 2014 additionally, those sockets owned by the kernel are also listed. Dynamic tracing in oracle solaris, mac os x, and freebsd oracle solaris series pdf, epub, docx and torrent then this site is not for you. In 2008, his blog pointed out that with solaris 9 and earlier, an rc3 script would be used to specify ndd parameters at boot up. Introducing solaris dynamic tracing dtrace with the solaris 10 operating system os, sun introduces dynamic tracing dtrace. See more on wikipedia pages how to configure ntp server on solaris 10. With solaris 10, we dont use either inetd or xinetd, but smf. Dtrace is available for mac os x, freebsd, and the solaris family of operating systems. To configure the ports, enter each of the following commands.
Installing the agent log onto the solaris server you wish to monitor as root and download the solaris nrpe agent to the tmp directory by executing the following commands. The following parameters for the nfsv4 protocol are included in the oracle solaris 10 release. In oracle solaris 10, you use the ndd command to customize network parameters tunables and some driverspecific properties. Solaris 10, oracle solaris 11, smartos, omnios, and anything else based on the illumos kernel. How to configure solaris 10 probe based ipmp the geek diary. How to reset the aa3x00 configuration if you have been swapping disks with other as or have the orange light on wo any hardware. Oracle solaris system tuning in the solaris 10 release. Sun, sun microsystems, le logo sun, le logo solaris, le logo java coffee cup. Sun blade 150 ultrasparciie 650mhz, no keyboard, openboot 4. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading dtrace. New security features in solaris 10 and dtrace chandan b. How to configure link based ipmp in solaris 11 the geek.
This entry was posted in uncategorized and tagged patches, release, solaris, table, updates. The advantage is the change dynamic and realtime and the change persist across reboot unlike the ndd command. Jan 20, 2011 solaris ntp is used to allow for time sycnhronisation on a network between 2 or more hosts either solaris, windows or linux. But when i do a ps ef grep inetd, it still shows inetd start. Oracles solaris releases oracles linux releases best systeme. Dtrace system administrators, integrators, and devel opers can use the dynamic instrumentation and tracing capabilities in the solaris os to see whats really going on in the system. Although the ndd command is still functional in oracle solaris 11, the dladm command is the preferred command for managing these properties the nf file is also used in oracle. Recently, our sysadmins switched our main application partition from being a local disk to an nfs partition. Any person using solaris in any capacitywould be remiss not to include these two new volumes in their personal library. Every once in a while, a simple os command like ls al in a directory with 10 20 files will hang for more than 1 minute. One of the local zone atlantis is for oracle instance. Solaris 10s resource management and shell limitulimit.
Module 10 dtrace mentality 2 references some topics presented are based on the book. Solaris performance features top features solaris solaris 10 solaris performance observability bylayer strategy 3metric strategy system components. June 2005 a secure and robust operating system plays a key role in keeping a computing environment safe and secure. Obviously someone at oracle is updating the toolkit, even though theres no attribution in the files since brendan gregg, and the official product version is still 0. Apr 09, 2008 hi team, could you please let us know how we can check if server is running in slew or step mode in solaris 10 oe. Solaris 10s resource management one of the best known features in solaris is resource management. If anything, ill be sharing occasional tips on dtrace in mac osx. Brendans blog solaris 11 dtrace syscall provider changes. If youre looking for a free download links of dtrace. Heres a great list of whats new in solaris 10 10 2009. Solaris dtrace can be safely used on production systems without modifying applications. Comparing the ndd command and nf configuration to the dladm command. The package creates the nagios usergroup, installs files to usrlocalnagios, creates the solaris service, registers the existing ssl libraries which ship by default in solaris 10 and starts the service. Comments or proposed revisions to this document should be sent via email to the following address.
Backporting that to earlier systems would be very expensive. Solaris dtrace, an introduction linkedin slideshare. Observability infrastructure chapter the new second edition, with the companion performance and debugging book, is an indispensable reference set, containing many useful and practical explanations of solaris and its underlying subsystems, including tools and methods for observing and analyzing any system running solaris 10 or opensolaris. Note that this guide does not provide information about every new feature in oracle solaris 11, nor does it mention every. Pdf a new approach for detection of host identity in ipv6 networks. How to upgrade and patch with oracle solaris live upgrade. Hello, as i understand dtrace is available from solaris 10. This script is designed to highlight processes that are causing the most disk io. The advanced maryland automatic network disk archiver asymptote. These packages should be part of your default install whether you use jumpstart solaris 10, ips solaris 11 or something else. Here is some sample output, partially hidden by how we format blogs so, install solaris 11. Solaris is a proprietary unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems.
There are many sections that are just fine, but there are others that could be better. Theres really no reason not to install them by default. This mechanism allows controlling resource for each and every process which is big advantage in system administration. The solaris 10 sparc security technical implementation guide stig is published as a tool to improve the security of department of defense dod information systems. For the current list of available resource controls, see rctladm1m. How to configure ntp server and ntp client on solaris 10. Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10. Solaris dynamic tracing guide sun microsystems, inc. The network time protocol ntp is a protocol for synchronizing the clocks of computer systems over packetswitched, variablelatency data networks. It appears that they have removed some of the ciphers in order to be compliant with export restrictions. Solaris 10 includes suns java desktop system jds, which is based on gnome and comes with a large set of applications, including staroffice, suns. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets.
At the command prompt, type logout and press enter. This is mostly a repost of laotsaos weblog, with some tweaks and additions. Download the latest solaris 10 patches using patchfinder and find updated support content using the sunsolve knowledgebase. Trussing a process throttles that process to your display speed. How to use oracle solaris dtrace from oracle solaris and. Truss is used to trace the systemlibrary calls not user calls and signals madereceived by a new or existing process. All the following commands are to be run from the obp and not the os. Rvp206 it is now possible to customize the parameters passed to ndtrack. Dynamic tracing in oracle solaris, mac os x, and freebsd oracle solaris series. Gathering flexnet inventory flexera product documentation. Dtrace tips still my favorite from solaris 10 times, dtrace is truly amazing.
Additionally, those sockets owned by the kernel are also listed. Oracle solaris containersresource management and oracle solaris zones nfsv4 parameters. So if the failure detection time is 10 seconds, then the repaire detection time would be 20 seconds with 10 probes. Oracle solaris 11 dropped many commonly used probes from the dtrace syscall provider, a disappointing sideeffect of some code refactoring in the system call trap table psarc 2010441 delete obsolete system call traps. The book contains extensive examples of basic dtrace functions. Our sever is running solaris 10 0910 with four local zones. However if you are still stuck on solaris 10 then you can obtain the packages from the solaris companion disk. Dtrace and mdb techniques for solaris 10 and opensolaris informit introduction to observability jdb 3 1. For a limited time sunsolve will provide access to all solaris 10 patches. With solaris 10 and later, it is more elegant to to smf. Solaris networking can run in traditional mode or in network automagic nwam mode, where networking is managed autonomously by the nwamd daemon. For the purpose of this example, i will be installing solaris 10 on a sun blade 150 with the following configuration. Since its introduction, it has been implemented in other operating systems, the most noteworthy being freebsd and mac os x. I dident find any command and also checked nf file for disable pll entry but could not come to the actual result that if system running in slew or step.
Hi team, could you please let us know how we can check if server is running in slew or step mode in solaris 10 oe. Solaris default install user tools ask question asked 7 years, 2 months ago. The above tools will take up a few hundred k of disk space. How to configure link based ipmp in solaris 11 the geek diary. Dynamic tracing in oracle solaris, mac os x and freebsd gregg, brendan, mauro, jim on. This works in the global zone, nonglobal zones, kernel zones and even in solaris 10 branded zones. Adapters and connectors reference pdf file, available through the title page of online. List of solaris 10 updates and their respective calendar dates gerry has a list of new packages in each solaris 10 update. With the release of oracle solaris 10 1008, it is possible to configure the system to boot from oracle solaris zfs which simplifies this requirement. Many of the dtrace scripts on this page were originally written for solaris 10. Every once in a while, a simple os command like ls al in a directory with 1020 files will hang for more than 1 minute. Building nrpe on solaris 10 with ssl support the lone sysadmin. Dynamic tracing in oracle solaris, mac os x, and freebsd oracle solaris series kindle edition by gregg, brendan, mauro, jim.
Unfortunately, that throws a wrench in things when you want your solaris nagios server to use the nagios remote plugin executor nrpe to securely talk. Dec 29, 2009 how to configure ntp server and ntp client on solaris 10 posted by s. Jul 02, 2012 solaris 10s resource management one of the best known features in solaris is resource management. Solaris ntp is used to allow for time sycnhronisation on a network between 2 or more hosts either solaris, windows or linux. This was previously distributed by sun itself but is nowadays distributed by sunfreeware. Dec 09, 2011 8 replies i am having sporadic problems with a solaris 10 database server running on a zfs file system. How to set ndd values at local zone only in solaris 10 showing 19 of 9 messages. Fujitsu m10 and sparc m10 systems are identical products. How to set ndd values at local zone only in solaris 10. Jun 07, 2012 in 2008, his blog pointed out that with solaris 9 and earlier, an rc3 script would be used to specify ndd parameters at boot up. A number of useful d scripts are included in oracle solaris 10, and more can be found on oracle technology network. Introduction this presentation is an introduction to the field of solaris performance. Containers on one oracle solaris10 system or guest domain, and the long support life all.