Sysadmin

So the other day i was doing some consulting a problem occur  in a network, causing a failure of inaccessibility to a server created by an application, in other words a client could not connect error type of thing, the client pays a consulter to actually tell him the solution of his problem, so whit that been said, i power on my laptop find some wire to plug in, open a terminal and start the digging (The real values of Ips address have been modified).

First i drop a traceroute to the IP address the client was trying to connect to and found this:

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OK  so a friend of OA ask me to write  an article about SmartOS, seriously i try but i don’t know what its up whit the  ISO file of that project that wont boot up! i mean i download from this server a file call “latest.iso” it didn’t boot… later on i download another ISO file, an older version this time, the version was (20120726T184637Z). and it didn’t boot up either, so i decided to not leave the things like that and went to a similar project named OpenIndiana, is almost the same thing. BTW i am guessing that my friend want an article about this… because first there is like ahhhhh ZERO documentation, second he has to be focusing on Visualization technology. We are going to make some articles about that but not with SmartOS. Fare well lets start this installation walk trough.

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