How to Add Hosts

The install team enters every host that the local machine should contact upon booting into the local hosts database. If the local machine is a name service client, it will find its file servers, home directory server, and other servers from the name service master.

To Add Hosts to Local Machine's Known Network

1. At the label ADMIN_LOW, in an administrative role, initially the root role, invoke the Solaris Management Console from the Application Manager.

   If you are unfamiliar with accessing the Solaris Management Console, see "To Initialize the SMC Server". Note that the SMC must be initialized before use.

2. Click this_host: Scope=Files, Policy=TSOL under Trusted Solaris Management Console in the Navigation pane.

3. Click Trusted Solaris Configuration, then Computers and Networks, then double-click Computers.

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   If toolbox icons display as red stop signs, the toolboxes will not load. To load them, do Step 4.

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   The known hosts are displayed in the View pane. This workstation should already be in the database. You should add the following hosts:

   1. Name service master, if any.

   2. Static routers, if any.

   3. Audit servers for this workstation.

   4. If this workstation does not use a name service, add all computers that this machine can contact.

4. Choose Add Computer from the Action menu.

5. Click Apply to add a computer, and click OK when the entries are complete.

6. If the network 0.0.0.0 is defined under Computers and Networks, remove it. It is a security risk. See "Modifying the Boot-time Trusted Network Databases" in Trusted Solaris Administrator's Procedures

   1. Double-click Computers and Networks.

   2. Click 0.0.0.0 in the View pane.

   3. Choose Delete from the Edit menu, and confirm the deletion when prompted.

7. Return to the procedure and chapter you are working from.