Well, i didn't know that rstatd can be used to obtain a remote's server performance counters....

It is usually disabled for security purposes.

Just make sure it is configured at /etc/inetd.conf, by uncommenting the proper line

bash-2.05# grep rstat /etc/services

bash-2.05# grep rstat /etc/inetd.conf

rstatd/2-4 tli rpc/datagram_v wait root /usr/lib/netsvc/rstat/rpc.rstatd rpc.rstatd

Then restart inetd

bash-2.05# ps -ef | grep inetd
root 355 1 0 Apr 26 ? 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd -s -t
bash-2.05# kill -HUP 355

It will be running

bash-2.05# ps -ef | grep rstat
root 23620 23616 0 18:01:48 pts/1 0:00 grep rstat
root 21694 355 0 17:39:37 ? 0:01 rpc.rstatd

You can use a fine rstatd client called java perfmeter: http://jperfmeter.sourceforge.net/

If you have CDE you can use sdtperfmeter

bash-3.00$ /usr/dt/bin/sdtperfmeter othermachine

If you have gnome, you might as well use gnome-perfmeter

# gnome-perfmeter othermachine

You might get a problem when using a gnome session on Solaris with vnc where keyboard is unresponsive....

According to http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-81175-1  :

To work around this issue, touch the following file:

/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/apps/gnome_settings_daemon/keybindings/%gconf.xml

and edit the file with:

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<gconf>

<entry name="volume_up" mtime="1110896708" type="string">

<stringvalue></stringvalue>

</entry>

<entry name="volume_mute" mtime="1110896705" type="string">

<stringvalue></stringvalue>

</entry>

<entry name="volume_down" mtime="1110896702" type="string">

<stringvalue></stringvalue>

</entry>

<entry name="help" mtime="1110896698" type="string">

<stringvalue></stringvalue>

</entry>

</gconf>

This is only how the install looks on solaris 9, not much options. It looks as it can be used only on qfe, ce and ge interfaces. We'll later see how to configure it

Docs          License       Solaris_7     Solaris_9     remove

bash-2.05# ./install

if you're bad at transforming hex to dec or viceversa

http://www.softwareeffect.com/tools/netmask.html

- rdircio

If your vold is fsck'ed up:

# mount -F hsfs -o nomaplcase,ro /dev/sr0 /CDROM

Thanks to Hiram Ruiz

- rdircio

1. Solaris 2.6 / 7
   
   1. /usr/bin/truss /usr/bin/date 2>&1 | /usr/bin/awk '/^time/ {print $NF}'
      
   
   
2. Solaris 8 / 9 / 10
   
   1. /usr/bin/perl -e 'printf "%d\n", time;'