System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Matrix of Solaris Management Tools and Supported Releases

This section provides information about tools that are primarily used to manage users, groups, clients, disks, printers, and serial ports.

This table lists the various Solaris management GUI tools and whether they are currently supported.

Table 1–2 Matrix of Solaris Management Tool Support


	Current Solaris Release Express	Solaris 10	Solaris 9
`admintool`	Not supported	Not supported	Supported
Solstice AdminSuite 2.3	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
Solstice AdminSuite 3.0	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
Solaris Management Tools 1.0	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
Solaris Management Tools 2.0	Not supported	Not supported	Not supported
Solaris Management Tools 2.1	Supported	Supported	Supported

Table 1–3 Matrix of Solaris Management Tool Support in the Solaris 8 Release


	Solaris 8
`admintool`	Supported
Solstice AdminSuite 2.3	Not supported
Solstice AdminSuite 3.0	Supported
Solaris Management Tools 1.0	Supported
Solaris Management Tools 2.0	Supported (Solaris 8 01/01, 4/01, 7/01, 10/01, 2/02 releases only)
Solaris Management Tools 2.1	Not supported

If you want to perform administration tasks on a system with a text-based terminal as the console, use Solaris Management Console commands instead. For more information, see Table 1–6.