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OIT Help Desk These pages have been updated for Solaris 10. While some information is
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written), some information for older versions of Solaris has been discarded to
avoid confusion. The focus of these pages is on Solaris 8-10.

The purpose of these pages is to provide a summary of tools and techniques

for troubleshooting problems on the Solaris platform.

The content on these pages is maintained by Scott Cromar (and used with
permission.) The information is also collected in Scott's book, The Solaris
Troubleshooting Handbook. More information can be found, and comments
on the contents of this page may be logged, at The Solaris Troubleshooting
Blog. Thank you to the people who have pointed out erroneous or poorly
presented information.

General Troubleshooting Software

Methodology Boot Sequence

Root Cause Analysis
Intermittent Problems
Files
Configuration Files
Header Files
inittab
Hardware
Attaching Devices to a Live
System
Boot Sequence
Error Messages
Fault Management Facility
Hard Drive Connectivity
PROM Environment
PROM Monitor Navigation
PROM Key Sequences
Sun Hardware Diagnostics
System Buses
tip Console
Watchdog Resets
CDROM Troubleshooting
Crash Dump Analysis
Changing a Hostname
Error Messages
File Descriptors
hme Modes
IPC Issues
Kernel Memory Allocation
Kernel Modules
kstat Structures
Multipathing
NFS Debugging
Priority Scheduling
Processes
Process Virtual Memory
savecore Debugging
Service Management Facility
Sun Cluster
truss
UFS File Systems
ZFS File Systems
System Monitoring
Commands

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Performance

CPU Load adb

Disk I/O dtrace
IPC Parameters iostat
Kernel Tuning mdb
Lock Contention kmdb
Memory and Swap [PDF] mpstat
Name Service Tuning netstat
NFS Tuning nfsstat
Network Debugging p-commands
Process Accounting sar
Resource Management vmstat
Resource Pools
Scheduling
Zones

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Content © 2011 by Scott Cromar, from The Solaris Troubleshooting Handbook. Used with
permission.
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