A Leading Imaging Company
A leading imaging company asked Corporate Technologies to review the current state of their Solaris 10 environment, and make recommendations based on “best practices” for systems availability and security. Based on client input, a Senior Infrastructure Architect drew up a statement of work that included reviews/validations of the following system elements:
- current operating environment
- hardware health check
- operating system configuration and patch levels
- Unix system security
- systems network connections
- DNS configurations
- system logging configuration
We placed an Infrastructure Technical Architect—proven from working on our own managed Solaris 10 projects—on site three days after our client approved the job specification. Our resource was extended after three weeks on a second-phase engagement involving implementation of his recommendations, which gave our client significant benefits.
We improved performance by optimizing operating system, network, VxVM, VxFS, Qlogic, and storage connectivity settings for data transfer—and by optimizing CPU affinity and TCP processing for data caching. We improved systems management by modifying Solaris 10 kernel parameters to address security access, logging, patching/package cluster management, and performance monitoring. Access control was improved by replacing unsupported third-party freeware with a built-in RBAC system native to Solaris 10, immediately giving our client enhanced audit trails.
Fact: We provided two resources to improve Solaris 10 systems
availability and security—a senior strategists who recommended
the work, and a technical architect who implemented it.