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Fun with Reboot!

Contributed by Dave on October 26, 2003 under Solaris system administration

Need to reconfiure boot a system, but can’t (or don’t want to) get to the console? Jumpstart a client without physically having to reboot and then Stop-A from the console? No problem! Let ‘reboot’ take care of it for you!

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Disable a CPU in Solaris using psradm

Contributed by Dave on October 12, 2003 under Solaris system administration

On supported Enterprise systems such as the E4500, individual CPUs and memory boards can be disabled at will. If, for instance, /var/adm/messages is filled with errors regarding CPU1 then it can be taken offline until a replacement CPU arrives.

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