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Setting up LDAP for Solaris 11

Some time ago i was asked to provide a walktrough for the configuration of LDAP in Solaris 11. It’s a walkthrough how to set up LDAP name services for Solari...

Telegrafing data to MQTT

On Friday i wrote an article describing how i configured Telegraf to gather monitoring data from my Technische Alternative CMI. In this article i wrote that...

Out of ID

Recently a customer observed on one of their systems, that the number n of databases started quite nicely on a system. However when they tried to start data...

Virtualbox via IPS .p5p

Darren Moffat just pointed to this in his Twitter feed about an package for Solaris that would make installation of this great tool really comfortable. Virtu...

Using the Technische Alternative CMI with Telegraf

My heating system is controlled by an UVR1611 from Technische Alternative as i have to control a wood pellets heater and solar thermal collectors on the roof...

IPMP and additional IP addresses

Recently i had a customer with a problem: The customer configured an IPMP group with a number of additional IPs. They had a number of application servers run...

Common Criteria certification for Oracle Solaris 11.4

Darren Moffat just wrote in the Solaris blog on blog.oracle.com about an important news for Oracle Solaris 11.4: Solaris just got its Common Criteria cerfica...