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Less known Solaris Features: About crashes and cores - Part 5: Conclusion

Friday, May 9. 2008

The Solaris Operating Environment has several functions to enable the user or the support engineer in the case something went wrong. Crash and core dumps are an invaluable resource to find the root cause of a problem. Don´t throw them away without looking at them.

Do you want to learn more?

Documentation
coreadm(1M)
dumpadm(1M)
uadmin(1M)
mdb(1)
Solaris Modular Debugger Guide

Books
Solaris Internals: Solaris 10 and Open Solaris Kernel Architecture - Richard McDougall and Jim Mauro
Solaris Performance and Tools: DTrace and MDB Techniques for Solaris 10 and OpenSolaris - Richard McDougall , Jim Mauro and Brendan Gregg

Posted by Joerg Moellenkamp in English, Solaris at 13:39 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)

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Less known Solaris Features: About crashes and cores
It´s getting warmer, so this tutorial is a little bit shorter. It´s about the a really hated topic: Panics, crash dumps, core dumps and the tools to manage and leverage this the informations resulting from this functions: Part 1: Introduction Part 2:

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