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To coincide with the 10th Annual SysAdmin Day on 31st July 2009, Sun is launching the SysAdmin of the Year Awards. It's just for System Heroes and Sun has got ten prizes to give away – a first prize of £250 of Amazon vouchers and nine runners-up prizes of vouchers worth £100.

It's really simple. To enter the Awards, simply register as a System Hero first and Sun will send you a link to forward to your users. They click on the link and follow the instructions to send you a virtual present (doughnuts, pizza, a day off etc). At the end of August, Sun counts the number of presents you've got and whoever has the most wins!

If you like this blog, why not give us a virtual doughnut, a slice of pizza or a cup of coffee? ;-)

http://www.systemheroes.co.uk/sysadminAwards.php?heroid=326






http://www.systemheroes.co.uk/sysadminAwards.php?heroid=326

Anthony Swart will be at the epicenter 2009 technology conference next August to talk about Sun's Identity Management products and their relevance to developer communities.

Anthony is a Pre-Sales Consultant at Sun Microsystems, currently working in the Identity space working -- Sun's current portfolio of products include OpenSSO, Identity Manager and OpenDS to mention a few. His current role includes presenting Sun's product portfolio to a range of customers and creating product demonstrations utilising Java and associated product API's to integrate a variety of Sun and third party products.

Anthony's tech session at epicenter 2009 will give you an overview of Sun's Identity Management portfolio, including single sign-on with OpenSSO, directory repositories in the way of OpenDS and provisioning with Identity Manager.

Anthony will also cover Sun's packaging streams, notably the Open Source and Enterprise versions. A technical demonstration will be given on a number of the Identity products to show you the features and potential uses of the products.

Along with the benefits of using Open Source software, the session will cover other potential areas where developers can benefit from Sun's portfolio of products, including utilising the products as a base for other end-user products and the potential for developers to contribute to add-ons to some of the products.

Save the dates! The epicenter conference is taking place in Trinity College Dublin on 26-27-28th August. For more information on the upcoming epicenter software and technology event, go to:

Website: http://irishdev.com/Home/Events/Article.html?id=216
Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenter2009

If you're in Dublin, Ireland, between 26th and 28th August 2009, don't miss epicenter 2009 -- the all-inclusive software and technology event organised by our friends at IrishDev.com.

epicenter is a culmination of the Irish Web, Open Sources, Database, Microsoft and Java Technologies conferences that have taken place since 2006.

IrishDev.com has a lot in store for us for this very first epicenter show. So save the dates!

We can confirm that Simon Cook, Lead Finance Software Architect at Sun Microsystems UK, will be at the event to talk about the current releases of Java and JavaFX, as well as some the features arriving in the next versions of these platforms. Simon will also cover Glassfish and related projects.

For more information on the upcoming epicenter software and technology event, go to:

Website: http://irishdev.com/Home/Events/Article.html?id=216
Twitter: http://twitter.com/epicenter2009

Check out the 12 new advanced level Solaris training modules now available at the Sun Open Learning Center - they're free!

www.sun.com/training/solc/

The new modules cover backups, restores, UFS and the ZFS file system.

Many thanks for your question, Pete.

To force a crash dump in a LDOM, try the following command:

/opt/SUNWldm/bin/ldm panic ldom-name