Check DNS

* (A) Check whether DNS is configured on your client by verifying that a non-empty /etc/resolv.conf file exists.

* (F) If /etc/resolv.conf does not exist or is empty, check that your DHCP server is providing DNS server information to the client:

# /sbin/dhcpinfo DNSserv

If this command returns nothing, the DHCP server is not set up to provide DNS server information to the client. Contact your DHCP administrator to correct this problem.

* (B) If an /etc/resolv.conf file exists and is properly configured, check for the following possible problems and contact your system administrator for resolution:

** The DNS server might not be resolving your IPS repository server name.

** No default route to reach the DNS server exists.

A: ZFS can automatically share file systems by setting the sharenfs property. Using this property, you do not have to modify the /etc/dfs/dfstab file when a new file system is shared. The sharenfs property is a comma-separated list of options to pass to the share command. The value on is an alias for the default share options, which provides read/write permissions to anyone. The value off indicates that the file system is not managed by ZFS and can be shared through traditional means, such as the /etc/dfs/dfstab file. All file systems whose sharenfs property is not off are shared during boot.

Oracle Solaris 10 branded zones – Oracle Solaris 10 Zones provide an Oracle Solaris 10 environment on Oracle Solaris 11. You can migrate an Oracle Solaris 10 system or zone to a solaris10 zone on an Oracle Solaris 11 system in the following ways:

* Create a zone archive and use the archive to create an s10zone on the Oracle Solaris 11 system.

This option applies in the current scenario.

Example of command to Install the Oracle Solaris 10 non-global zone.

s11sysB# zoneadm -z s10zone install -u -a /pond/s10archive/s10.flar

* Detach the zone from the Oracle Solaris 10 system and attach the zone on the Oracle Solaris 11 zone. The zone is halted and detached from its current host. The zonepath is moved to the target host, where it is attached.

Note:

install [-x nodataset] [brand-specific options]

A subcommand of the zoneadm.

Install the specified zone on the system. This subcommand automatically attempts to verify first. It refuses to install if the verify step fails.

-u uuid-match

Unique identifier for a zone, as assigned by libuuid(3LIB). If this option is present and the argument is a non-empty string, then the zone matching the UUID is selected instead of the one named by the -z option, if such a zone is present.

How to Create an iSCSI LUN

The following steps are completed on the system that is providing the storage device.

• 1.Create a ZFS storage pool.

Example: target# zpool create sanpool mirror c2t3d0 c2t4d0

(C)2. Create a ZFS volume to be used as a SCSI LUN.

(D)3. Create a LUN for the ZFS volume.

Example:

target# stmfadm create-lu /dev/zvol/rdsk/sanpool/vol1

Logical unit created: 600144F0B5418B0000004DDAC7C10001

4. Confirm that the LUN has been created.

Example

target# stmfadm list-lu

LU Name: 600144F0B5418B0000004DDAC7C10001

(F) 5. Add the LUN view.

This command makes the LUN accessible to all systems.

target# stmfadm add-view 600144F0B5418B0000004DDAC7C10001

How to Create the iSCSI Target

This procedure assumes that you are logged in to the local system will contains the iSCSI target.

Note: The stmfadm command manages SCSI LUNs. Rather than setting a special iSCSI property on the ZFS volume, create the volume and use stmfadm to create the LUN.

(H) 1. Enable the iSCSI target service.

target# svcadm enable -r svc:/network/iscsi/target:default

(I) 2. Create the iSCSI target.

target# itadm create-target

A: In contrast to the SVR4 packaging model used in earlier Oracle Solaris releases, IPS eliminates the need for patching.

The framework enables providers of cryptographic services to have their services used by many consumers in the Oracle Solaris operating system. Another name for providers is plugins. The framework allows three types of plugins:

* User-level plugins - Shared objects that provide services by using PKCS #11 libraries, such as pkcs11_softtoken.so.1.

* Kernel-level plugins - Kernel modules that provide implementations of cryptographic algorithms in software, such as AES.

Many of the algorithms in the framework are optimized for x86 with the SSE2 instruction set and for SPARC hardware.

* Hardware plugins - Device drivers and their associated hardware accelerators. The Niagara chips, the ncp and n2cp device drivers, are one example. A hardware accelerator offloads expensive cryptographic functions from the operating system. The Sun Crypto Accelerator 6000 board is one example.

Use the installadm set-criteria command to update the client criteria associated with an AI manifest that you already added to a service using installadm add-manifest.

Use the installadm add-manifest command to add a custom AI manifest to an install service.

The value of manifest is a full path and file name with .xml extension. The manifest file contains an AI manifest (installation instructions). The manifest file can also reference or embed an SC manifest (system configuration instructions).

B: Set the correct permissions.

Serving a Local Repository Using SMF

• First, create a ZFS file system to hold the repository.
• Next, make a local copy of the IPS repository file.
• Make the contents of the repository file available to the pkg.depotd(1M) server, using the lofiadm command to mount the ISO image. 

4. (A) Copy the repository files to the ZFS file system you created. This will increase the performance of repository accesses and avoid the need to remount the .iso image each time the system restarts. (Be sure to use /mnt/repo, not /mnt/repo/, so that you copy the repo directory and not just the files and subdirectories in the repo directory.)

# rsync -aP /mnt/repo /export/repo2010_11

You can use the df command to confirm the copy:

5. Once the files are copied, unmount the image and deallocate the block device.

6. Now that your local copy is ready, use the svccfg command to configure the repository server service, specifying the location of your local repository and setting readonly to true:

(D)# svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/inst_root=/export/repo2010_11/repo

(E)# svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/readonly=true

7. Start the pkg.depotd repository service:

(G) # svcadm refresh application/pkg/server

(I) # svcadm enable application/pkg/server

A: Conditional and system locations can be manually

activated, which means that the location remains active until explicitly disabled.

D: A location comprises certain elements of a network configuration, for example a name service

and firewall settings, that are applied together, when required. You can create multiple locations

for various uses. For example, one location can be used when you are connected at the office by

using the company intranet. Another location can be used at home when you are connected to

the public Internet by using a wireless access point. Locations can be activated manually or

automatically, according to environmental conditions, such as the IP address that is obtained

by a network connection.

 In this Solaris release, you can use the zpool split command to split a mirrored storage pool, which detaches a disk or disks in the original mirrored pool to create another identical pool.

After the split operation, import the new pool.