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

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.

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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