solaris

What problem does it solve?

Provides concise, operational guidance and actionable commands to administer and troubleshoot Solaris 9/10/11 systems so engineers can reliably manage services, storage, networking, virtualization, and hardware on SPARC and x86 platforms.

Core Features & Use Cases

• Service Management (SMF): Inspect service states, manage service manifests, and recover services from maintenance for production recovery.
• ZFS Administration: Create and maintain pools and datasets, perform snapshots, send/receive replication, tune properties, and manage scrubs and replacements during migrations.
• Zones & LDoms: Configure, install, and lifecycle-manage Solaris Zones (sparse/whole-root/branded) and T-series LDoms, including resource allocation and live migration procedures.
• Observability & Diagnostics: Use DTrace for live performance tracing and FMA/OBP/cfgadm/luxadm/prtdiag tooling for hardware and fault diagnosis.
• Use Case: Triage a degraded SPARC host by validating ZFS pool health, clearing SMF maintenance, collecting DTrace I/O latency samples, and producing a remediation checklist for an on-call operator.

Quick Start

Ask the solaris skill to audit a SPARC host for ZFS health, SMF service states, pending FMA faults, and recommended remediation steps.