A Minimalist Solaris 10 Install/<title> </head>  <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#000080" alink="#FF0000"> <h1 class="SECT1">A Minimalist Solaris 10 Install that supports Oracle DB and PeopleSoft</h1> <pre align="left"><small> Mark Saad May 06 2009 mark dot saad at ymail dot com </small> </pre> <div class="SECT3"> <h3 class="SECT3">Overview</h3> <pre> This document describes the basic setup for a Minimalist Solaris 10 setup using a ZFS Root disk. It should be noted that using SVM ( Solstice Software RAID ) and UFS root disks could also be done here. The major change would be in the disk layout. I would use a 10G / 8G SWAP 8G /var and REST in /opt . </pre> <h3 class="SECT3">1. Lets Begin:</h3> <pre> Preform a Solaris install as you normally would. When prompted for the install sets select Core System and then select Customize Package Selection </pre> <h3 class="SECT4">2. Here is the list of packages required to make the install work.</h3> <hr /> <pre> SUNWbinutils SUNWarc SUNWbash SUNWbtool SUNWdoc SUNWgcc SUNWgccruntime SUNWgcmn SUNWggrp SUNWgpch SUNWgzip SUNWhea SUNWlibm SUNWlibmr SUNWscpr SUNWscpu SUNWsprot SUNWsshcu SUNWsshdr SUNWsshdu SUNWsshr SUNWsshu SUNWtoo SUNWxcu4 SUNWbash SUNWbashS SUNWless SUNWlessS SUNWwgetu SUNWwgetr SUNWwgetS SUNWperl584core SUNWperl584man SUNWperl584usr SUNWperl-xml-parser SUNWvolr SUNWvolu SUNWuiu8 SUNWpool SUNWpoolr SUNWipc SUNWi1cs SUNWi15cs SUNWi1of SUNWulcf SUNWmfrun SUNWxwrtl SUNWxwice SUNWxwfnt SUNWxwplt SUNWxwplr SUNWctpls SUNWj5rt SUNWj6rt SUNWj6man SUNWj6cfg </pre> <h3 class="SECT3">3. Disk layout</h3> <pre> Next I then selected a ZFS Root opting to use all 4 drives in the system in a mirrored Raid setup. More or less a raid 10 . I used the default disk layout which gives me a 4G Zvol for SWAP and a 8G zvol for /var the rest is in one large zvol . </pre> <h3 class="SECT3">4. Extra Packages</h3> <pre> Once the install was done i then installed the following packages from SunFreeWare </pre> <h3 class="SECT3">4.1 Packages from Sun Freeware.com</h3> <hr /> <pre> SMCgrep SMClgcc346 SMCliconv SMClintl SMClpcap SMCossl SMCpcre SMCrcs SMCsudo SMCtcpd SMCtop SMCzlib </pre> <h3 class="SECT3">5. Clean-up </h3> <pre> Originally I had opted to disable the auto mounter and setup /home as the home directory of choice. I create the following ZFS file systems /opt No Quota /opt/Storage 10G </pre> <h3 class="SECT3">6. Security</h3> <pre> The next goal of the box was to pass a security scan. I decided to change the /etc/security/policy.conf to use more secure password formats I edited /etc/security/policy.conf I changed CRYPT_ALGORITHMS_ALLOW=1,2a,md5,5,6 to CRYPT_ALGORITHMS_ALLOW=2a and I added CRYPT_DEFAULT=2a CRYPT_ALGORITHMS_DEPRECATE=__unix_ After this I changed roots password and added accounts for admin,psoft,tuxedo </pre> <h3 class="SECT3">6. Tunings </h3> <pre> Next I created a project for the psoft user and setup the following options in /etc/project user.psoft:100::::process.max-sem-ids=(priv,16384,deny);process.max-sem-nsems=(priv,1024,deny);process.max-sem-ops=(priv,1024,deny);project.max-shm-ids=(priv,256,deny);project.max-shm-memory=(priv,8589934592,deny) Next I added the following options to /etc/system to further tune the system and to make the ZFS Arc Cache play nice with BEAs broken malloc system. * PeopleTools Parms set rlim_fd_cur=8192 set rlim_fd_max=65535 set noexec_user_stack=1 set ip:ip_squeue_fanout=1 set ip:ip_soft_rings_cnt=8 * suggested settings for weblogic set autoup=900 set tune_t_fsflushr=1 set slowscan=900 *Lower the total ARC Cache Size to 5G set zfs:zfs_arc_max = 5368709120 </pre> <h3 class="SECT3">7. Shell bits</h3> <pre> Lastly I setup the following .bash_profile for admin root psoft tuxedo and I copied it to /etc/skell # Marks Solaris Friendly bash profile # If not running interactively, don do anything [ -z "$PS1" ] && return export HISTCONTROL=ignoreboth # check the window size after each command and, if necessary, # update the values of LINES and COLUMNS. shopt -s checkwinsize # A Fancy Bash Prompt PS1="\u@\h: \w :> " export PS1 # Setup a Sun Friendly path PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/ccs/bin:/usr/sfw/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/perl5/5.8.4/bin:$HOME/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin" export PATH export PAGER=less export EDITOR=vi export BLOCKSIZE=K alias ll=ls -alsh </pre> <h3 class="SECT3">Conclusion</h3> <pre> This is the basic install guide. This was based off a email from from Eric Boutilier Eric.Boutilier@Sun.com to the netbsd pkgsrc-tech mailing describing how to make a minimalist solaris 10 install that was like a basic netbsd install so that you would be able to buiuld you userland from netbsds pkgsrc . </pre> Mark <small> Posted in Solaris. Tagged with Oracle, People Soft, Solaris 10. No comments By admin May 12, 2009 * May 2009 Tags Oracle People Soft Solaris 10 </small> </div> <div align="center"><img src="apache