New to Solaris - need a few basics

[mjschroed]

I am fairly new to Solaris. I support an app that runs on it. I have two basic questions.

First, in HP UNIX there is a command "top" that will show you what is processing and what kind of system resources it is utilizing. Is there something similar in Solaris? I have jobs that are taking a long time to process and I would like to know how much of the system resources they are actually using.

Secondly, how do I tell how much memory my server has?

Thanks!
Melissa

 

[KenCunningham]

Hi Melissa,

welcome to Solaris!

http://www.sunfreeware.com

has some downloadable top packages for use with Solaris. Issuing a prtconf | pg command will tell you how much memory your server has (see the second line of output).

Hope this helps and good luck.

 

[mjschroed]

Thanks Ken for your help! So far so good!

On another note - can you recommend a good book to help me learn? I have some experience with HPUX but not solaris.

Thanks!
Melissa

 

[KenCunningham]

Melissa, personally I don't have a paper manual - I get most of the info. I need from sites like these, and this one in particular. Useful, if a little dry, is the official Sun site at

http://www.docs.sun.com.

Perhaps another contributor knows of a 'hard copy' book they could recommend?

 

[jaSun]

I second the welcome to Solaris!

A few more Solaris commands that may be helpful are:
prtdiag - usually in /usr/platform/`uname -i`/sbin. Use this with the -v option to get some quick and valuable info about the system

pkginfo - lists all of the installed software packages

showrev -p - lists all patches and revisions. (get used to patching in solaris!)

 

[jaSun]

Ken's suggestion of docs.sun.com is a good one. THe best Solaris book, outside of the Sys Admin 1 and 2 class texts is this:

http://www.sun.com/books/catalog/Winsor2/index.html

 

[NavinB]

Hi Melissa,
The best book acc. to me is
Sun Solaris Administrator Certification Training Guide (Part I & II) -by Bill Callins
U can also refer to the following sites:

http://www.introcomp.co.uk/unixadmin.html

http://docs.sun.com/

---From this site u can also download the various .pdf files

 

[mjschroed]

Thanks for the help! I will check into those docs!

Thanks!
Melissa