Jonathan Hawkins Sun's Unified Communications Architect

Solaris Container Trick #1 : Monitoring Users Processes

Here is a simple little trick that will give Solaris 10 Admins a bit
more control over monitoring their system processes in each zone. 

One
"feature" of Solaris Containers is that the namespace seems to be
consistant globally across all zones.  This means that the userid #
which gets assigned when you create a user with the "-u" option is
visible on the Global Zone.  Keep in mind in the non-global zones,
these users are not visible from peer zones.

To set this up, make sure that you have consistant user id# across all zones (incl. the Global zone).

# useradd -u 101 -g jes -d /opt jeszone1
# useradd -u 102 -g jes -d /opt jeszone2
# useradd -u 103 -g jes -d /opt jeszone3
# useradd -u 104 -g jes -d /opt jeszone4

# prstat -Z 
   PID USERNAME  SIZE &
    
 28007 root      612M   41M sleep   59    0   0:00:03 0.1% java/43
 27265 root      114M   56M sleep   59    0   0:00:28 0.0% java/53
 27906 jeszone2  220M  205M sleep   59    0   0:00:09 0.0% ns-slapd/45
 28003 root     4976K 4968K cpu4    49    0   0:00:00 0.0% prstat/1
 15021 root      150M   87M sleep   59    0   0:01:57 0.0% java/57
 25458 jeszone1  300M  128M sleep   59    0   0:00:37 0.0% webservd/73
 21426 root     2488K 2128K sleep   59    0   0:01:09 0.0% rpc.rstatd/1
 23387 root      158M   87M sleep   59    0   0:51:28 0.0% java/57
 23280 jeszone1  241M  225M sleep   59    0   0:00:29 0.0% ns-slapd/45
   200 root     2112K 1624K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% sac/1
   189 root     2616K 2032K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% keyserv/3
   111 root     6720K 6376K sleep   59    0   0:00:27 0.0% nscd/26
   199 daemon   2456K 2160K sleep   60  -20   0:00:00 0.0% lockd/2
 21502 root     1376K 1344K sle5ep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% sh/1
   108 root     4888K 4208K sleep   59    0   0:00:00 0.0% picld/5
ZONEID    NPROC  SIZE   RSS MEMORY      TIME  CPU ZONE
                            10       36 1081M  402M   1.2%   0:01:10 0.2% zone2                       
     0       57  427M  289M   0.8%   0:55:47 0.0% global                      
     8       34  862M  565M   1.7%   0:03:38 0.0% zone1