For all of you, who have to use the old style Legato NetWorker Motif Gui
on Sun Solaris for years, there are good news. EMC NetWorker® 7.3 has a really good new GUI. The new NetWorker Management GUI ist Java Web Start (JWS) based, so you won’t have any trouble to use the new GUI from your home office, administering your NetWorker backup server using DSL over a VPN to your company. For all of you, who missed reporting, this comes with the new version, as you can see in the screenhot of EMC Networker 7.3 below.
There are a lot of new features within Legato 7.3 (not only the GUI…) and you can run it on Sun Solaris 10!.
If your’ re thinking about running the Sun Fire T2000 Server (Pictures) as Web Server with apache, you might be interested in reading the article Niagara vs ftp.heanet.ie Showdown written by Colm MacCárthaigh.
There’s a new Sun Blueprint available, which explains how to use the Sun UltraSparc T1 modular aritmic units (MAUs) for hardware SSL acceleration. Ther are examples for Apache, Sun Java System Web Server, Java Applications and the Sun Solaris Kernel SSL Proxy (KSSL).
Really interessting are also the benchmarks for RSA Performance, SPECweb99_SSL and SPECweb2005.
Today, I tried to install Solaris 10 / OpenSolaris on my Dell Dimension 5000, and everything went fine, except Ethernet connectivity. Dell uses the Broadcom BCM4401 Chip for onboard Ethernet in the Dell Dimension 5000, but unfortunately, there’s no Solaris 10 Driver for the the Broadcom BCM4401 Chip .
What nexxt, using VMWare or bying another NIC?
No, there’s a Version of a Solaris 10 bcf driver for bcm4401 fast ethernet chipset.
Install it, for DHCP usage, create two empty files, “/etc/ dhcp.bcf0″ and “/etc/hostname.bcf0″, reboot and everything is fine!
I also submitted a HCL to Sun.
