Resources for Sun Server Hardware Management Using SNMP

A blog entry, The New Sun SNMP Hardware Monitoring Agent, talks about the host-based (in-band) SNMP hardware monitoring agent for Sun servers, part of the Sun Server Hardware Management Pack.

You can download the Sun Server Hardware Management Pack 1.0 from sun.com.

For more information, see the PDF documentation, Sun Server Hardware Management Using SNMP. You can use the Sun Server Hardware Management Pack 1.0, which consists of Sun Server Hardware Management Agents and associated Sun Server Hardware SNMP Plugins, to monitor Sun x64 server and blade module hardware.

Posted at 08:00AM Jul 03, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Get a Free Sony PlayStation Portable With Sun Training

This offer is hot, so we just extended it to September 30th. Don't put off enrolling in that training class or pursuing that certification you've been considering. Order by September 30, 2009, and you will get a Sony PSP 3000. Work hard. Play harder. Learn more.

Posted at 09:19AM Jul 02, 2009 by GD in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Configuring the DHCP Server for the Solaris OS or OpenSolaris OS

This community-submitted Tech Tip shows how to configure a DHCP server by using the bundled DHCP server in the Solaris OS or the SUNWdhcs package for the OpenSolaris OS.

Posted at 08:00AM Jul 02, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[1]

From Sun BluePrints: Sun Business Ready HPC for MD Nastran

This Sun BluePrints article (registration required) provides performance tuning recommendations and guidelines to allow an IT administrator or experienced MD Nastran user to configure MD Nastran and the hardware platform for optimum performance (reduced elapsed times).

Posted at 08:00AM Jul 01, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Blog: History of BigAdmin (Part One)

This BigAdmin blog entry comes from Robert Weeks, a BigAdmin founder, master craftsman webmeister, and the engineer who builds our apps like the HCL. See how BigAdmin began as a user kiosk for the Solaris 8 OS.

Posted at 08:00AM Jun 30, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[1]

News About SunSolve and Sun's Online Support Center

The SunSolve wiki shows plans to return to SunSolve's roots as a service for contracted customers (see Changes coming in FY10).

The SunSolve blog discusses enabling users to access SunSolve restricted content.

The Online Support Center (OSC) is transitioning to the Member Support Center. Time to use this legacy application is limited; see the wiki for information on migration and instructions for applying for the Member Support Center. Details on upcoming changes here.

Posted at 08:00AM Jun 29, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

NetBeans IDE 6.7 Is Here!

The focus of NetBeans IDE 6.7 is connectivity -- helping developers to connect to the latest technologies and to each other: Project Kenai, native Maven support, and Hudson integration are just the beginning. Learn more.

Posted at 07:45AM Jun 29, 2009 by GD in NetBeans  |  Comments[1]

JavaOne Online Technical Sessions: View the Slides (PDF)

If you missed this year's JavaOne conference or want to get details of sessions you attended, you can review the slides from technical sessions on the JavaOne Online site.

Posted at 07:30AM Jun 29, 2009 by GD in JavaOne  |  Comments[1]

Blog: Using Oracle Technology With Solaris Cluster Software

Oracle on Solaris Cluster: Stuff you might have missed is an update in the Sun Availability Engineering group's Sun Cluster Oasis blog. This aggregation of good information includes the Sun Reference Architecture for Oracle 11g Grid white paper.

Posted at 08:00AM Jun 26, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

New Book by c0t0d0s0: New Less Known Solaris Features

Joerg Moellenkamp (also known as c0t0d0s0) has recently published his PDF book, Less Known Solaris Features.

Posted at 02:23PM Jun 25, 2009 by GD in Solaris-SunStudio  |  Comments[0]

Sun Forums Shine a Spotlight on cotton.m

On Sun Forums, read about Max Stocker, a regular contributor who is perhaps better known as cotton.m. Stocker has published about 15,000 posts since he began using the Sun Forums in 2005. Learn more.

Posted at 11:41AM Jun 25, 2009 by GD in Sun  |  Comments[0]

JavaOne Podcast: Java Tools SQE Roundtable

The java.net team has posted the first of its JavaOne podcasts: Java Tools SQE Roundtable, in which community leaders Toni Epple and Fabiane Nardone speak with members of the software quality environment (SQE) project team. Listen in.

More podcasts will be added to the java.net JavaOne Community Corner Podcasts in the coming weeks.

Posted at 10:49AM Jun 25, 2009 by GD in JavaOne  |  Comments[0]

The Zones 'Update on Attach' Feature and Patching in the Solaris 10 OS

Enda O'Connor's latest article on patching describes the functionality of the 'update on attach' command (the -u argument to the zoneadm attach command). This feature has been available since the Solaris 10 10/08 release. Topics discussed include: Criteria for Determining Which Packages Are Updated, Update on Attach Versus Regular Upgrade, Patching and Zone Update on Attach, Whole Root Zone Versus Sparse Root Zone, Presence of Interim Diagnostic Relief (IDR) Patches and Special Patches, and Steps for Running Update on Attach.

Posted at 08:00AM Jun 25, 2009 by CM and KP in BigAdmin  |  Comments[0]

Register Now for Kernel Conference Australia (July 15-17, Univ. of Queensland)

Register for the Kernel Conference Australia, to be held July 15-17 at the University of Queensland. Get the agenda. Learn more about the speakers, including Brendan Gregg, inventor of the DTraceToolkit; Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore, inventors of ZFS; Max Alt, open-source community manager at Intel; and James Morris, project lead for SELinux.

Posted at 07:37AM Jun 25, 2009 by GD in Events  |  Comments[0]

JavaOne Conference Round-up

Angad Singh, a tech lead in Sun's Campus Ambassador program, has posted nine blog entries related to his week at the 2009 JavaOne conference in San Francisco. With dozens of links and more than 6000 photos and videos to capture his and his colleagues' impressions of the city and the Conference, he may yet win an award for most enthusiastic attendee response. Go, Angad!

Posted at 02:52PM Jun 24, 2009 by GD in Students  |  Comments[0]