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Screencast Offers Step-by-step Instructions

The Sun Ops Center 2.5 comes with the ability to patch Windows operating systems through Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager. A recent screencast highlighted by Owen Allen in the Ops Center blog takes viewers through the Windows update process, which involves configuring Ops Center to work with SCCM 2007 instance, discovering and managing the Windows systems and then using the Reports section for the actual Windows update.

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Provides Basics on Using Tool to Identify Performance Issues

Maria Tishkova demonstrates runtime profiling using DLight, which unifies application and system profiling with DTrace technology on Solaris platforms. System profiling tools like DLight allows for the exploration of a system to help users understand how the system works and track down performance problems across many software layers.

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Using Package Manager or Command Line

Through an audio screencast, find out how you can easily upgrade from an existing OpenSolaris 2008.11 to OpenSolaris 2009.06. This 10-minute how-to screencast is easy to follow and is presented by Markus Weber, Sun technical marketing manager. He shows the simple steps to follow to conduct this upgrade and several screenshots to walk users through it.

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