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ActivePerl project is the complete, quality-assured and ready-to-install Perl distribution for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows.
Whats included:
- Perl core
- Perl Package Manager
- Installers
- Complete online documentation
Enhancements:
- Release version of 64-bit ActivePerl for Linux, Solaris and Windows.
- Rewritten PPM client. The command line shell has been replaced by a graphical user interface.
- Bundles the Tcl and Tkx modules, plus a significant subset of the latest Tcl/Tk widgets.

Software::Packager::Solaris is the Software::Packager extension for Solaris 2.5.1 and above.

SYNOPSIS

use Software::Packager;
my $packager = new Software::Packager(solaris);

This module is used to create software packages in a format suitable for installation with pkgadd. The process of creating packages is baised upon the document Application Packaging Developers Guide. Which can be found at http://docs.sun.com/ab2/@LegacyPageView?toc=SUNWab_42_2:/safedir/space3/coll1/SUNWasup/toc/PACKINSTALL:Contents;bt=Application+Packaging+Developer%27s+Guide;ps=ps/SUNWab_42_2/PACKINSTALL/Contents

FUNCTIONS

new()

This method creates and returns a new Software::Packager::Solaris object.

add_item()
$packager->add_item(%object_data);

This method overrides the add_item function in the Software::Packager module.

This method adds a new object to the package.

package()

$packager->packager(); This method overrides the base API in Software::Packager, it controls the process if package creation.

package_name()

This method is used to specify the abbreviated package name.

Sun say: (Application Packaging Developers Guide. Page 32) A valid package abbreviation must the criteria defined below:

It must start with a letter. Additional charaters may be alphanumeric and can be the two special charaters + and -.

It must be nine or fewer charaters.

Reserved names are install, new, and all.

For more details see the pkginfo(4) man page.

program_name()

This is used to specify the full package name.

The program name must be less that 256 charaters.

For more details see the pkginfo(4) man page.

architecture()

The architecture must be a comma seperated list of alphanumeric tokens that indicate the architecture associated with the package. The maximum length of a token is 16 charaters. A token should be in the format "instruction set"."platform group" where: instruction set is the output of `uname -p` platform group is the output of `uname -m`
If the architecture is not set then the current instruction set is used.

For more details see the pkginfo(4) man page.

version()

This method is used to check the format of the version and return it in the format required for Solaris.

The version must be 256 charaters or less.

The first charater cannot be a left parenthesis.

The recommended format isi an arbitrary string of numbers in Dewey-decimal format. For more datails see the pkginfo(4) man page.

install_dir()
$packager->install_dir(/usr/local);
my $base_dir = $packager->install_dir();

This method sets the base directory for the software to be installed. The installation directory must start with a "/".

compatible_version()

$packager->compatible_version(/some/path/file);
or
$packager->compatible_version($compver_stored_in_string);

my $compatible_version = $packager->compatible_version();

This method sets the compatible versions file for the software to be installed.

space()

$packager->space(/some/path/file);
or
$packager->space($space_data_stored_in_string);
my $space = $packager->space();

This method sets the space file for the software to be installed.

request_script()

$packager->request_script(/some/path/file);
or
$packager->request_script($request_script_stored_in_string);
my $request_script = $packager->request_script();

This method sets the space file for the software to be installed.

dim_STAT 8.3 is yet another excellent utility you should not miss. It is actually a performance analysis and monitoring tool for Solaris and Linux (as well all other UNIX) systems.

Major Features:

1. Web based interface
2. Data storage in a SQL database
3. Several data views
4. Interactive (Java) or static (PNG) graphs
5. Real-time monitoring
6. Multi-host monitoring
7. Post analyzing
8. Statistics integration
9. Professional reporting with automated features, and more.

Enhancements: Jul.2009

• Fixes :
• • security issue on STAT-service!!
  • execution dim_STAT CLI from the web services
  • fixed LANG=C and LC_ALL=C via the main STAT-service script
• Improvements :
• • Optional Admin password may be given on a database creation and then it'll be required for any admin action!
  • Database error messages are now handled separately from LOG messages
  • Java WebDRAW Applet updated
  • add color LEDs near hostnames to signal running or stopped hosts
  • add #Records column to have an idea about a number of database rows per collect
  • Admin LOG management is working more friendly now with a long lists of messages
    
  • STAT-service daemon may listen exclusively on a given IP address now [IP:port]
  • Whole database backup is added to the Admin menu
• Database schema :
• • iostat disk names are moved to varchar(64)
  • all float values are moved to float(25,5) to have an easily human reading
  • Add-On name limit is 14 characters now
• Report Tool :
• • wiki-like syntax is added to simplify writing!
  • look & feel updated
  • some minor fixes here & there
• EasySTAT additional options :
• • COMPRESS=gzip (to automatically compress each output file)
  • TIMER=yes (automatically adding timestamps and sync tags within output files)
• New Add-Ons :
• • HAR v2 (CPU chip counters, ex. mips, cache miss, etc.)
  • Solaris CPU-Set STAT (mpstat -a)
  • Linux MPSTAT v2
  • MySQL STAT
  • InnoDB STAT
  • InnoDB I/O STAT (adoption of Neel's DTrace script )
  • PgSQL STAT (PostgreSQL stats)
  • ZoneLOAD: zoneid => zonename

Solaris::Kstat is a Perl module to access Solaris Kstats from Perl.

SYNOPSIS

use Solaris::Kstat;
my $kstat = Solaris::Kstat->new();
my ($usr1, $sys1, $wio1, $idle1) =
@{$kstat->{cpu_stat}{0}{cpu_stat0}}{qw(user kernel wait idle)};
print("usr sys wio idlen");
while (1)
{
sleep 5;
if ($kstat->update()) { print("Configuration changedn"); }
my ($usr2, $sys2, $wio2, $idle2) =
@{$kstat->{cpu_stat}{0}{cpu_stat0}}{qw(user kernel wait idle)};
printf(" %.2d %.2d %.2d %.2dn",
($usr2 - $usr1) / 5, ($sys2 - $sys1) / 5,
($wio2 - $wio1) / 5, ($idle2 - $idle1) / 5);
$usr1 = $usr2; $sys1 = $sys2; $wio1 = $wio2; $idle1 = $idle2;
}

This module provides a tied hash interface to the Solaris kstats library. The kstats library allows you to get access to all the stats used by sar, iostat, vmstat etc, plus a lot of others that arent accessible through the usual utilities.
Solaris categorises statistics using a 3-part key - module, instance and name. For example, the root disk stats can be found under sd.0.sd0, and the cpu statistics can be found under cpu_stat.0.cpu_stat0, as in the above example. The method Solaris::Kstats-new()> creates a new 3-layer tree of perl hashes with exactly the same structure - i.e. the stats for disk 0 can be accessed as $ks-{sd}{0}{sd0}>. The bottom (4th) layer is a tied hash used to hold the individual statistics values for a particular system resource.

Creating a Solaris::Kstat object doesnt actually read all the possible statistics in, as this would be horribly slow and inefficient. Instead it creates a 3-layer structure as described above, and only reads in the individual statistics as you reference them. For example, accessing $ks-{sd}{0}{sd0}{reads} will read in all the statistics for sd0, including writes, bytes read/written, service times etc. Once you have accessed a bottom level statitics value, calling $ks->update() will automatically update all the individual values of any statistics that you have accessed.

Note that there are two values per bottom-level hash that can be read without causing the full set of statistics to be read from the kernel. These are "class" which is the kstat class of the statistics and "crtime" which is the time that the kstat was created. See kstat(3K) for full details of these fields.

pmpkg provides a script and definitions to build SysV style binary packages for Solaris from source tarballs in an automated way, somewhat similar to ports or ebuilds.
pmpkg aims for reuse of system packages where possible and a minimalistic dependency set.
Enhancements:
- This release features more robust handling of the package tree in many places.
- It also includes the usual assortment of new packages (mkvtoolnix, xgcc-i386-elf, 0install, pyhashlib, ilmbase, libebml, libmatroska, smarteiffel) and updates (ddclient, openldap, dovecot, x264, erlang, php4, wine, pcre, wxwidgets, squeak, texmacs, bchunk, openexr, blender, ocaml, wavpack, gossip, ogle, git, star, boost, monotone, sbcl, scons).