Plan Workstation Hardware and Capacity.

Workstation hardware includes the workstation itself and its attached devices (tape drives, microphones, CD drives, and disk packs). Its capacity includes its memory, its network interfaces, and its disk space.

Consult the Solaris 7 Sun Hardware Platform Guide for a list of hardware that supports the Trusted Solaris environment. Any exceptions are noted in Trusted Solaris 7 Release Notes.

Peripheral hardware and capacity required for initial installation on a SPARC include:

• 32 MB minimum memory

• Local CDROM drive

Memory over the minimum is required on Trusted Solaris workstations that:

• Are used as servers: OS servers, name servers, file servers, audit servers, boot servers

• Run graphics or other large applications

• Run compilers

• Run number-crunching applications

• Run at more than one sensitivity label

• Are used by users who can assume an administrative role

Similarly, disk space requirements are greater on workstations that:

• Are used as servers: OS servers, name servers, file servers, audit servers, boot servers

• Are used by programmers

• Run graphics or other large applications

• Store files or large applications locally

• Have several smaller disks (for example, ten 104-Mbyte disks will waste more space trying to make things fit than a single 1-GByte disk)

• Are installed with the larger software clusters: Developer and Entire.

• Run at more than one label

• Are used by users who can assume an administrative role

For each Trusted Solaris workstation, you need to determine the following:

• Name and IP address

• Ethernet address (for network installations)

• Sun architecture (for network installations)

• Root password

• PROM security level: maintenance password only, or boot password

• PROM password (for Intel Architecture: BIOS protection)

• What devices may be attached to the workstation

• Which users may use the workstation

• Which printers at what labels may the workstation access