You have a production Solaris box handed to you and wanted to check on basic system information. Surprise!!! Surprise!!! Here are some tips that hopefully could help UNIX Admins and alike to keep up into their sleeves.
Determining Whether a System Has 32-Bit or 64-Bit Solaris Capabilities Enabled
root@solaris# isainfo -v
How to Display Solaris Release Information
root@solaris# cat /etc/release
Displaying General System Information
root@solaris# showrev -a
Display installed patches on the System
root@solaris# showrev -p
Displaying a System’s Host ID Number
root@solaris# hostid
Displaying a System’s Product Name
root@solaris# prtconf -vb
Displaying a System’s Installed Memory
root@solaris# prtconf | grep Memory
Displaying the Date and Time
root@solaris# date
Displaying a System’s Processor Type
root@solaris# psrinfo -v
Display the locales currently installed on your system
root@solaris# localeadm -l
Set a System’s Date and Time Manually
root@solaris# date 0121173404 (mmddHHMM[[cc]yy]) Thu Jan 21 17:34:34 MST 2004
Edit message of the day
root@solaris# vi /etc/motd
Get the Disk information as well as soft/hard/transport errors
root@solaris# iostat -En
Get the OBP environment variables
root@solaris# eeprom or ok> printenv
Well, if you don’t like the system information you gathered and want to reconfigure the system, here it is:
root@solaris# sys-unconfig
There you have it! Some simple tips on getting and re-configuring the System Information on Solaris. Will update this list as we go along.
See you on my next note!!!