Solaris Implementation: A Guide for System Administrators

Solaris Implementation: A Guide for System Administrators, 1/e

George Becker, Independent Consultant
Mary E.S. Morris, Sun Microsystems Press, Palo Alto, CA
Kathy Slattery

Published January, 1995 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

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Summary

Written by three administrators at Sun, this book fills the gap by answering all the questions concerning real-world, day-to-day systems administration issues glossed over in the Solaris documentation by giving hints, tips, and techniques as well.

Covers differences between Solaris 1.x and 2.x environments, planning and preparing for installation (with examples), boot and shutdown files, the Admintool GUI, network topology, security, software management, disk utilities, Solaris Products (Wabi…–) and Online: Backup…–. Includes AutoInstall samples, sample disk configurations, and excerpts from the comp.unix.solaris FAQ.

Features

explains (with examples) the planning involved in setting up a Solaris 2.x installation and automating the installation process.
describes some of the files consulted during the booting of a system and reviews changes that can be made to them.
details the ways in which to use the new admintool GUI and shows the longer manual process to accomplish some of the same tasks.
discusses network topology and the different ways to use the Solaris environment on server systems.
presents the theory of maintaining security and how to implement it in the Solaris 2.x environment.
explores both the GUI and the command line-based tool for managing SVR4-standard software packages and patches for the operating system.
outlines the standard Solaris 2.x utilities that are available for managing disks and related common archiving procedures.

Table of Contents

1. Solaris 2.x Differences.
2. Planning and Preparing for Installation.
3. Installing Solaris.
4. Admintool.
5. Boot and Shutdown Files.
6. Using the Network.
7. Security.
8. Software Management.
9. Disk Utilities.
10. Solaris Products.
Appendix A: AutoInstall Samples.
Appendix B: Sample Disk Configuration.
Appendix C: Sources of Information.