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What's New in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

System Administration Tools

Feature Description 

Release Date 

Solaris Volume Manager

Solaris Volume Manager provides storage management tools that enable you to create and manage RAID 0, RAID 1, and RAID 5 volumes, as well as transactional (logging) devices and soft partitions. Solaris Volume Manager provides all of the capabilities of Solstice DiskSuiteTM and adds the following:

  • Soft partitions - Allow numerous partitions on a single drive, thus breaking the 8-slice barrier

  • Device ID support - Preserves Solaris Volume Manager configuration even if disks are moved or rearranged

  • Active monitoring of disks - Detects silent failures

  • Solaris Management Console based interface - Enables you to manage the enhanced storage devices through the same management interface that is used for other Solaris management tasks

  • Solaris Volume Manager WBEM application programming interface (API) - Enables standards-based management of Solaris Volume Manager from any compliant tool

The Solaris 9 release seamlessly supports upgrading existing systems that run Solaris DiskSuite (SDS) to the Solaris Volume Manager without disturbing or changing the configuration. Upgrades of mirrored root file systems are fully and automatically supported. 

For more information, see the Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide.

Solaris 9 

Unified diff Format

The diff and sccs-sccsdiff commands have been updated to include support for the GNU-style unified diff format in which context lines are only printed once in the listing of differences.

For information on these commands, see the diff(1) and sccs-sccsdiff(1) man pages.

Solaris 9 

Generic Log Rotation Facility

A generic log rotation facility is available in the Solaris 9 release. System administrators can use this facility to maintain and rotate system and application log files. For further information, see the logadm(1M) and logadm.conf(4) man pages.

Solaris 9 

Solaris Management Console

Solaris Management Console 2.1 is a GUI-based "umbrella application" that serves as the starting point for a variety of management tools. The console comes complete with a default toolbox that contains the following tools: 

  • System Information - Display read-only data about the host, hardware, and software.

  • Log Viewer - View application and command-line messages and manage log files.

  • Processes - View, suspend, resume, and delete processes.

  • Performance - Track the usage and consumption of system resources.

  • Users - Set up and maintain user accounts, user templates, groups, mailing lists, administrative roles, and rights. Grant or deny rights to users and to administrative roles to control the specific applications each can work with and which tasks each can perform.

  • Projects - Constrain how resources are allocated, by processes and by tasks that run in the current project.

  • Computers and Networks - View and manage computers, networks, and subnetworks.

  • Patches - Manage patches on systems that run the Solaris operating environment.

  • Scheduled Jobs - Schedule, start, and manage jobs.

  • Mounts and Shares - View and manage mounts, shares, and usage information.

  • Disks - Create and view disk partitions.

  • Enhanced Storage - Create and manage RAID 0 (concatenation and stripe), RAID 1 (mirror), RAID 5, soft partitions, and transactional volumes. Assemble flexible storage configurations that are resistant to data loss or downtime.

  • Serial Ports - Configure and manage existing serial ports.

You can add or delete tools from the default toolbox or create a new toolbox to manage a different set of tools by using the console Toolbox Editor.  

Diskless clients can also be managed, though only through a CLI. 

For further information, see "Solaris Management Console (Overview)" in the System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

Solaris 8 1/01 

Updated in Solaris 9 

Patch Manager

Patch Manager manages patches that are created for the Solaris 9 operating environment and compatible releases. You can display installed patches and their properties, add patches to one or more systems concurrently, remove patches, analyze a system's patch requirements, and download patches from the SunSolve Online service.  

The new smpatch(1M) command installs patches on single or multiple machines, analyzes patch requirements, and downloads required patches.

See the smpatch(1M) man page for further information.

Solaris 9  

Solaris WBEM Services 2.5

Solaris WBEM Services 2.5 is Sun Microsystems' implementation of Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM). WBEM is a set of management and Internet-related technologies that are intended to unify the management of enterprise computing environments. Solaris WBEM Services was updated to version 2.5 in the Solaris 9 release. Further information is provided in "Web-Based Enterprise Management Tools".

Solaris 9 

WBEM CIM Object Manager Now Listens to HTTP Port 5988

The CIM Object Manager listens for remote method invocation (RMI) connections on RMI port 5987 and now listens for XML/HTTP connections on HTTP port 5988. (In the Solaris 8 software release and updates of the Solaris 8 release, the CIM Object Manager listened for XML/HTTP connections on default HTTP port 80.) 

For further information, see the Solaris WBEM Services Administration Guide.

Solaris 9  

SNMP Adapter for WBEM

Intended for use by system administrators, the SNMP Adapter for WBEM enables Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) management applications to access system management information that is provided by Solaris WBEM Services.  

Used with the SolsticeTM Enterprise Agent (SEA) Master Agent, the SNMP Adapter for WBEM maps SNMP requests into equivalent WBEM Common Information Model (CIM) properties or instances.

The SNMP Adapter for WBEM also remaps the response from the CIM Object Manager into an SNMP response, which is returned to the management application.  

A mapping file contains the corresponding Object Identifier (OID), class name, property name, and Abstract Syntax Notation One (ASN.1) type for each object.  

The Solaris WBEM Services Administration Guide contains information about the SNMP Adapter for WBEM.

Solaris 9  

Solaris Product Registry 3.0

This registry includes these new features: 

  • The ability to uninstall individual system packages.

  • All of the Solaris system products that you installed in their localized version appear in the System Software Localizations folder.

  • The registry is compatible with more installation wizards.

For further information, see the System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

Solaris 8 1/01 

Modify Software Groups in Solaris Web Start Program

The Solaris Web Start installation method was updated to enable you to modify the selected Solaris Software Group by adding or removing software packages. 

For further information, see the System Administration Guide: Basic Administration.

Solaris 8 1/01 

System Administration Freeware Tools

For information about GNU grep 2.4.2 and GNU tar 1.13, see "Freeware". GNU grep 2.4.2 is a pattern matcher. GNU tar 1.13 is an archiver.

Solaris 9