Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 Administration Guide

About This Book

The Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 Administration Guide provides product overview, task, and reference information for Solstice^TM AdminSuite^TM 2.3, a suite of graphical user interface tools used to perform system administration tasks in the Solaris^TM software environment.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for anyone responsible for using the Solstice AdminSuite software to perform administrative tasks such as setting up and modifying users, groups, servers, printers, clients, modems, or terminals.

This book assumes that you are familiar with the mouse-use terminology such as Select (click on an item once) and Choose (click on a menu button and slide the cursor to the item you would like to choose).

Before You Use This Product

To use this product, you should be familiar with UNIX® system software concepts, the network configuration of your site, and your site policies for security.

How This Book Is Organized

This book has three parts:

Part 1 - Provides overview information on the Solstice AdminSuite software.

Part 2 - Part IIProvides task-specific information needed to use the Solstice AdminSuite software.

Part 3 - Part IIIProvides information on additional administration that you may need to do after using the Solstice AdminSuite software, and additional administration that the Solstice AdminSuite software provides.

What Typographic Changes Mean

The following table describes the typographic changes used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol

Meaning

Example

AaBbCc123

The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output

Edit your .login file.

Use ls -a to list all files.

machine_name% You have mail.

AaBbCc123

What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output

machine_name%su
Password:

AaBbCc123

Command-line placeholder:

replace with a real name or value

To delete a file, type rm filename.

AaBbCc123

Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized

Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options.

You must be root to do this

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and root prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts


Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	`machine_name%`
C shell superuser prompt	`machine_name#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	`#`