System Administration Guide: Network Services is part of a multivolume set that covers a significant part of the SolarisTM system administration information. This book assumes that you have already installed the SunOSTM 5.10 operating system, and you have set up any networking software that you plan to use. The SunOS 5.10 operating system is part of the Solaris 10 product family, which also includes many features.
This Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC® and x86 families of processor architectures. The supported systems appear in the Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.
In this document these x86 related terms mean the following:
“x86” refers to the larger family of 64-bit and 32-bit x86 compatible products.
“x64” relates specifically to 64-bit x86 compatible CPUs.
“32-bit x86” points out specific 32-bit information about x86 based systems.
For supported systems, see the Solaris OS: Hardware Compatibility Lists.
This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the Solaris 10 release. To use this book, you should have one to two years of UNIX® system administration experience. Attending UNIX system administration training courses might be helpful.
Here is a list of the topics that are covered by the System Administration Guides.
Book Title |
Topics |
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User accounts and groups, server and client support, shutting down and booting a system, and managing services |
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Terminals and modems, system resources (disk quotas, accounting, and crontabs), system processes, and troubleshooting Oracle Solaris software problems |
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Removable media, disks and devices, file systems, and backing up and restoring data |
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TCP/IP network administration, IPv4 and IPv6 address administration, DHCP, IPsec, IKE, Solaris IP filter, Mobile IP, IP network multipathing (IPMP), and IPQoS |
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System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) |
DNS, NIS, and LDAP naming and directory services, including transitioning from NIS to LDAP and transitioning from NIS+ to LDAP |
System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+) |
NIS+ naming and directory services |
Web cache servers, time-related services, network file systems (NFS and Autofs), mail, SLP, and PPP |
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Printing topics and tasks, using services, tools, protocols, and technologies to set up and administer printing services and printers |
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Auditing, device management, file security, BART, Kerberos services, PAM, Solaris Cryptographic Framework, privileges, RBAC, SASL, and Solaris Secure Shell |
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System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones |
Resource management topics projects and tasks, extended accounting, resource controls, fair share scheduler (FSS), physical memory control using the resource capping daemon (rcapd), and resource pools; virtualization using Solaris Zones software partitioning technology and lx branded zones |
ZFS storage pool and file system creation and management, snapshots, clones, backups, using access control lists (ACLs) to protect ZFS files, using ZFS on a Solaris system with zones installed, emulated volumes, and troubleshooting and data recovery |
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Oracle Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator’s Procedures |
System administration that is specific to the Oracle Solaris' Trusted Extensions feature |
Starting with the Solaris 10 5/08 release, describes how to plan for, enable, and initially configure the Oracle Solaris' Trusted Extensions feature |
This is a list of related documentation that is referred to in this book.
System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)
System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+)
System Administration Guide: Oracle Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones
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The following table describes the typographic conventions that are used in this book.
Table P–1 Typographic Conventions
Typeface |
Meaning |
Example |
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AaBbCc123 |
The names of commands, files, and directories, and onscreen computer output |
Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. machine_name% you have mail. |
AaBbCc123 |
What you type, contrasted with onscreen computer output |
machine_name% su Password: |
aabbcc123 |
Placeholder: replace with a real name or value |
The command to remove a file is rm filename. |
AaBbCc123 |
Book titles, new terms, and terms to be emphasized |
Read Chapter 6 in the User's Guide. A cache is a copy that is stored locally. Do not save the file. Note: Some emphasized items appear bold online. |
The following table shows the default UNIX system prompt and superuser prompt for shells that are included in the Oracle Solaris OS. Note that the default system prompt that is displayed in command examples varies, depending on the Oracle Solaris release.
Table P–2 Shell Prompts
Shell |
Prompt |
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Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell |
$ |
Bash shell, Korn shell, and Bourne shell for superuser |
# |
C shell |
machine_name% |
C shell for superuser |
machine_name# |