When discussing availability of a service, it is common to hear the term “Five Nines” referring to a service being available 99.999% of the time but “Five Nines” are relative.
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In reality, none of those calculations are relevant because no one cares if a service is unavailable for 10 hours, as long as they…

A friend asked me how he could see the network utilization in Solaris. It seems like a fairly simple request but for some reason this is not a simple command line away.
In Linux I would instinctively go straight to iptraf. I don’t know if iptraf is the tool of choice these days but I’m…

Recently, I was asked to give some advice on an integration project involving some Solaris web servers . One of the sides requested to install the top command.Now I know and love top for Linux but using top on Solaris is a waste in my opinion. Solaris comes with the prstat command built in-…