You're reading from Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook Over 50 advanced recipes to help you configure and administer Oracle Solaris systems

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781849688260

Length 478 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Oracle Solaris

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Alexandre Borges

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. IPS and Boot Environments

2. ZFS FREE CHAPTER

3. Networking

4. Zones

5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services

6. Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server

7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges

8. Administering and Monitoring Processes

9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance

Index

Changing the URI and enabling and disabling a publisher

Another requirement can be to change the URI of a publisher and point it to a new repository. For example, we copied all the Oracle Solaris 11 packages to the repo directory under /repo_pool/repoimage/.

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, it's necessary that we have a system (physical or virtual) running Oracle Solaris 11; we log in to the system as the root user and open a terminal. Access to the Internet is recommended.

How to do it…

We alter a publisher to point to a different URI by typing the following commands:

root@solaris11:~# pkg set-publisher -g http://localhost:9999 -G http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/ solaris
root@solaris11:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
solaris                     origin   online F http://localhost:9999/
training                    origin   online F http://localhost:8888/
solarisstudio               origin   online F https://pkg.oracle.com/solarisstudio/release/
Symantec                    origin   online F file:///root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p/

Remember that the URI, http://localhost:9999, points to the repository, /repo_pool/repoimage/repo. To revert it, we execute the following command:

root@solaris11:~# pkg set-publisher -g http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/  -G http://localhost:9999 solaris

We list the publishers again by executing the following command:

root@solaris11:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
solaris                     origin   online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/
training                    origin   online F http://localhost:8888/
solarisstudio               origin   online F https://pkg.oracle.com/solarisstudio/release/
Symantec                    origin   online F file:///root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p/

Sometimes, we might be forced to disable a publisher; this task can be executed according to the following example:

root@solaris11:~# pkg set-publisher -d training
root@solaris11:~# pkg publisher
PUBLISHER                   TYPE     STATUS P LOCATION
solaris                     origin   online F http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/
training       (disabled)   origin   online F http://localhost:8888/
solarisstudio               origin   online F https://pkg.oracle.com/solarisstudio/release/
Symantec                    origin   online F file:///root/SFHA601/dvd2-sol_x64/sol11_x64/pkgs/VRTSpkgs.p5p/

To re-enable it, we run the following command:

root@solaris11:~# pkg set-publisher -e training

An overview of the recipe

The handling of publishers is a very common task in Oracle Solaris 11, and we're probably going to be enabling and disabling publishers very often using the pkg set-publisher command.