Oracle Solaris 11 Cheat Sheet

Create an install service from a downloaded ISO file, specifying x86 based DHCP client starting at address 192.168.1.210 with a total count of 10 addresses:

# installadm create-service -n s11x86 -i 192.168.1.210 -c 10 –s /path/to/solaris-11-1111-ai-x86.iso

List all enabled services:

# installadm list

List any installation manifests associated with the install services:

# installadm list -m

Export the default installation manifest associated with the  s11x86 service:

# installadm export -n s11x86 -m orig_default > manifest.xml

Import a manifest to be associated with the s11x86 service:

# installadm update-manifest -n s11x86 -m orig_default -f manifest.xml

List any system configuration profiles associated with the install services:

# installadm list -p

Create a system configuration profile interactively, saving the contents to a file:

# sysconfig create-profile -o profile.xml

Validate a system configuration profile against the default x86 install service:

# installadm validate -n default-i386 -P profile.xml

Associate a system configuration profile with the deafult x86 install service and give it a name sc-profile:

# installadm create-profile -n default-i386 -f profile.xml -p sc-profile

Apply a criteria that all clients must have 4096MB memory or greater to the manifest s11manifest of s11x86 service:

# installadm set-criteria -m s11manifest -n s11x86 -a MEM="4096-unbounded"

Configuring nodename:

# svccfg –s svc:/system/identity:node setprop config/nodename = “myhost”

# svcadm refresh svc:/system/identity:node

# svcadm restart svc:/system/identity:node

Configuring console keyboard layout:

# svccfg –s keymap:default setprop keymap/layout = UK-English

# svcadm refresh keymap

# svcadm restart keymap

 

Configuring system locale:

# svccfg –s timezone:default setprop timezone/localtime = astring: US/Mountain

# svcadm refresh timezone:default

Unconfigure a system and start an interactive configuration tool on reboot:

# sysconfig configure -s

Create a system configuration profile:

#sysconfig create-profile -o sc-profile.xml

Configure a system according to a system configuration profile:

#sysconfig configure -c sc-profile.xml

Create a boot environment:

# beadm create solaris-05032012

Activate a boot environment:

# beadm activate solaris-05032012

Delete a boot environment:

#beadm destroy solaris-05032012

Show boot environments from SPARC boot PROM:

ok boot -L

Boot into a boot environment from SPARC boot PROM:

ok boot -Z rpool/ROOT/solaris-05032012

Install a package called diagnostic/wireshark:

# pkg install diagnostic/wireshark

Install a group package to provide a desktop environment:

# pkg install solaris-desktop

Update all possible packages to the newest version, including any zones:

# pkg update

Do a dry run of a system update to understand what packages may change:

# pkg update -nv

Uninstall a package called diagnostic/wireshark:

# pkg uninstall wireshark

List all packages installed on a system:

# pkg list

Get more information about an installed package called diagnostic/wireshark:

# pkg info wireshark

List the contents of an installed package called diagnostic/wireshark:

# pkg contents wireshark

Search all packages in the configured repositories for a file called math.h:

# pkg search math.h

Search for all packages installed on a system that have a dependency on library/libxml2

# pkg search -l -o pkg.name 'depend::library/libxml2'

List currently associated package publishers:

# pkg publisher

Connect to the Oracle support repository and update the system

# pkg set-publisher -g https://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/support -G http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release -k /path/to/ssl_key -c /path/to/ssl_cert solaris

# pkg update

List all running zones verbosely:

# zoneadm list -v

List all configured zones:

# zoneadm list -c

List all installed zones:

# zoneadm list -i

Install a zone:

#zoneadm -z testzone install

Boot a zone:

#zoneadm -z testzone boot

List configuration about a zone:

#zoneadm -z testzone list

Login to a zone:

# zlogin -C testzone

Halt a zone

# zoneadm -z testzone halt

Shutdown a zone

# zoneadm -z testzone shutdown

Monitor a zone for CPU, memory and network utilization every 10 seconds:

# zonestat -z testzone 10

List processes associated with the network/netcfg service:

# svcs -p network/netcfg

Show why services that are enabled but are not running, or preventing other services from running:

# svcs -xv

Enable a service called network/dns/client:

# svcadm enable network/dns/client

Restart a service called network/nfs/server using an abbreviated FMRI:

# svcadm restart nfs/server

Disable a service called network/ssh:

# svcadm disable network/ssh

Display all properties and values in the SMF configuration repository for the service network/ssh:

# svcprop network/ssh

Interactively display the general/enabled property within the SMF configuration repository for the service network/ssh:

# svccfg

svc:> select ssh:default

svc:/network/ssh:default> listprop general/enabled

svc:/network/ssh:default> exit

Set the port number of the application/pkg/server service to 10000:

# svccfg -s application/pkg/server setprop pkg/port=10000

# svcadm refresh application/pkg/server

Configure email notifications for all services that drop from online to maintenance state

# svccfg setnotify -g from-online,to-maintenance \

mailto:admin@myhost.org

List all configuration changes that have been made in the SMF configuration

repository to the

name-service/switch service:

# svccfg -s name-service/switch listcust -L

File systems – Basic ZFS Administration

Oracle Solaris ZFS is the default root file system on Oracle Solaris 11. ZFS has integrated

volume management, preserves the highest levels of data integrity and includes a wide

variety of data services such as data deduplication, RAID and data encryption.

Create a ZFS pool with a single disk:

# zpool create testpool c3t2d0

Create a ZFS pool with 3 disks in RAID0 configuration:

# zpool create testpool c3t2d0 c3t3d0 c3t4d0

Create a ZFS pool with 3 disks in RAID1 configuration:

# zpool create testpool mirror c3t2d0 c3t3d0 c3t4d0

Create a ZFS pool with 3 disks in a RAIDZ configuration (single parity):

# zpool create testpool raidz c2t2d0 c3t3d0 c3t4d0

Create a ZFS pool with 1 disk and 1 disk as seperate ZIL (ZFS Intent Log):

# zpool create testpool c3t2d0 log c3t3d0

Create a ZFS pool with 1 disk and 1 disk as L2ARC (Level 2 storage cache):

# zpool create testpool c3t2d0 cache c3t3d0

Share a filesystem via NFS:

# zfs create zpool/fs1

# zfs set share=name=fs1,path=/rpool/fs1,prot=nfs rpool/fs1

# zfs set sharenfs=on rpool/fs1

Share a filesystem via CIFS:

# pkg install service/filesystem/smb

# svcadm enable -r smb/server

# echo "other password required pam_smb_passwd.so.1 nowarn" >> /etc/pam.conf

# smbadm enable-user joerg

# zfs set share=name=sh1,path=/rpool/fs1,prot=smb rpool/fs1

# zfs set sharesmb=on rpool/fs1

Use shadow migration: pkg install shadow-migration

# svcadm enable shadowd

 

# zfs set readonly=on path/to/data

 

# zfs create -o shadoow=file:///path/to/data \

target/new/path/to/data

Disk Devices

Show all disks on a system:

# cfgadm -s "select=type(disk)"

 

Configure a disk to be used via iSCSI

# svcadm enable svc:/network/iscsi/initiator

# iscsiadm modify initiator-node -A myclient

# iscsiadm add discovery-address 10.211.55.200

# iscsiadm discovery -t enable

# devfsadm -c iscsi

Replace a faulty disk

c1t1d0 from ZFS pool testpool:

# zpool offline testpool c1t1d0

# cfgadm -c unconfigure c1::dsk/c1t1d0

# cfgadm -c configure c1::dsk/c1t1d0

# zpool replace testpool c1t1d0

# zpool online testpool c1t1d0

Mirror existing boot disk c3t0d0s0 with disk c3t2d0s0

 

# fdisk -B c3t2d0s0

# prvtoc /dev/rdsk/c3t0d0s0 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c3t2d0s0

On x86 systems:

# installgrub /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/rdsk/c3t2d0s0

On SPARC systems:
#installboot -F zfs \

/usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk/dev/rdsk/c3t2d0s0


Networking

– Manual Administration

Switch to manual network configuration:

# netadm enable –p ncp defaultfixed

Show physical network interfaces:

# dladm show-phys

Create interface with static IPv4 configuration:

# ipadm create-ip net0

# ipadm create-addr –T static –a local=10.9.8.7/24 net0/addr
# ipadm show-addr

Create interface with DHCP configuration:

# ipadm create-ip net0

# ipadm create-addr –T dhcp net0/addr

Create interface with auto-generated IPv6 configuration:

 

# ipadm create-ip net0

# ipadm create-addr –T addrconf net0/addr

Configure default route:

 

# route –p add default 192.168.1.1

Activate DNS configuration:

 

# svccfg –s dns/client setprop config/nameserver = net_address: 192.168.1.1

# svccfg –s dns/client setprop config/domain = astring: “myhost.org”

#vccfg –s name-service/switch setprop config/host = astring: \“files dns\”
# svcadm refresh name-service/switch
# svcadm refresh dns/client

Activate DNS configuration (alternate approach by editing /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf and then importing these modifications into SMF)

 

# nscfg import –f svc:/system/name-service/switch:default

 

# nscfg import –f svc:/network/dns/client:default

# svcadm refresh dns/client

Create a network configuration profile:

 

# netcfg create ncp datacenter

 

# netcfg

netcfg> select ncp datacenter
netcfg:ncp:datacenter> create ncu phys net0
Created ncu ‘net0’. Walking properties ...
ip-version (ipv4,ipv6) [ipv4|ipv6]> ipv4
ipv4-addsrc (dhcp) [dhcp|static]> static
ipv4-addr> 192.168.1.27
ipv4-default-route> 192.168.1.1
netcfg:ncp:datacenter:ncu:net0> end
Committed changes
netcfg:ncp:datacenter> exit

Create a network location profile:

 

# netcfg

netcfg> create loc datacenter
Created loc 'datacenter'. Walking properties ...
activation-mode (manual) [manual|conditional-any|conditionalall]>
conditional-any
conditions> ip-address is 192.168.1.27
nameservices (dns) [dns|files|nis|ldap] dns
nameservices-config-file ("/etc/nsswitch.dns")>
dns-nameservice-configsrc (dhcp) [manual|dhcp]> manual
dns-nameservice-domain> datacenter.myhost.org
dns-nameservice-servers> 192.168.1.1
dns-nameservice-search>
dns-nameservice-sortlist>
dns-nameservice-options>
nfsv4-domain>
ipfilter-config-file>
ipfilter-v6-config-file>
ipnat-config-file>
ippool-config-file>
ike-config-file>
ipsecpolicy-config-file>
netcfg:loc:datacenter>
netcfg:loc:datacenter> exit
Committed changes

Activate a network configuration profile:

# netadm enable -p ncp datacenter

Create a virtual network interface over existing physical interface net0 with address 192.168.0.80:

# dladm create-vnic -l net0 vnic0

# ipadm create-ip vnic0

# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.0.80 vnic0/v4

Create two virtual network interfaces over a virtual switch (without a physical network interface):

# dladm create-etherstub stub0

# dladm create-vnic -l stub0 vnic0

# dladm create-vnic -l stub0 vnic1

Reduce the bandwidth of the virtual network interface vnic0 to 100Mbps:

# dladm set-linkprop -p maxbw=100 vnic0

Restrict the bandwidth going to IP address 192.168.0.30 by creating a flow on virtual

 

network interface

vnic0, then restrict its bandwidth to 50Mbps:

# flowadm add-flow -l vnic0 -a remote_ip=192.168.0.30 flow0

# flowadm set-flowprop -p maxbw=50 flow0

Restrict network traffic to TCP for a local port 443 for network interface net0:

# flowadm add-flow -l net0 -a transport=TCP,local_port=433 flow0

Activating Jumbo Frames (ethernet packets greater than 1500 bytes):

# dladm set-linkprop -p mtu=9000 net0

Configure Link Aggregation:

# dladm create-aggr -l net0 -l net1 aggr0

# ipadm create-ip aggr0

# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 10.1.1.2/24 aggr0/v4

Configure VLANS:

# dladm create-vlan -l net0 -v 100 administration1

# dladm create-vlan -l net0 -v 2 production1

# ipadm create-ip administration1

# ipadm create-ip production1

# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.2.2/24 administration1/v4static

 

# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.1.2/24production1/v4static


Configure an IPMP group:

# ipadm create-ip net0

# ipadm create-ip net1

# ipadm create-ip net2

# ipadm create-ipmp ipmp0

#ipadm add-ipmp -i net0 -i net1 -i net2 ipmp0

# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.1.27/24 ipmp0/v4

# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.1.50/24 net0/test

# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.1.51/24 net1/test

# ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.1.52/24 net2/test