Solaris 8 System Administrator Collection (About Solaris 8 Documentation)

About Solaris 8 Documentation

Solaris 8 System Administrator Collection

The Solaris 8 System Administrator Collection contains online documents describing all aspects of system administration and SunOS commands. A brief description of each document follows.

Table 4-9 Solaris 8 System Administrator Collection


System Administrator Document	Description
About Solaris 8 Documentation	This book lists the documentation needed to install and use Solaris 8 software. It also provides a tabular organization of the documents by task and brief descriptions of these documents.
Binary Compatibility Guide	This book is intended for application writers who want to ensure that their SunOS 4.0 operating system applications, and compatible versions of them, will execute easily on the Solaris 8 release. It describes the binary compatibility package, what it does and does not handle, and how to install and use it. It also discusses specific areas to consider in developing an application or in evaluating how easily an existing application on one of these SunOS versions will execute on this release. Most important, this guide describes areas where binary compatibility is not available. The Binary Compatibility Package on Solaris 2.0 operating environment and compatible versions emulates SunOS versions. This allows executables compiled and linked on these SunOS versions to execute on he Solaris 8 operating environment.
Font Administrator User's Guide	This book provides detailed instructions for managing fonts in the OpenWindows environment.
NIS+ Transition Guide	This book describes how to convert a site running the NIS name service to a site running the NIS+ name service. It provides an introduction and overview of the transition process, information about designing a new NIS+ name space, planning security measures, and running NIS+ in NIS-compatibility mode. It includes the prerequisites and steps required to implement a NIS-to-NIS+ transition.
Service Location Protocol Administration Guide	This book provides a conceptual description of the Service Location Protocol (SLP) V2 framework as it is implemented in the Solaris 8 software. The document also provides a checklist of considerations for planning and administering the SLP agents. It also includes procedures for logically or geographically extending the network, for activating the SLP-specific security feature, and for setting other SLP agent property configurations to optimize agent performance on the network.
Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide	This book lists causes, solutions, background information, and references for more than 250 common Solaris error messages.
Solaris Java Plug-in User's Guide	This book describes Java Plug-in 1.2 for the Solaris operating environment, an add-on product for Netscape Navigator^TM, which enables Java applets and JavaBeans components to run on Web pages using Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 1.2 instead of the default Java Virtual Machine (JVM) bundled with Navigator.
Solaris Naming Administration Guide	This book describes how to customize and administer existing NIS+, NIS, FNS, and DNS name spaces. It provides overview descriptions of these four name services, conceptual information describing how they work, and step-by-step descriptions and explanations of how to perform common name space administration tasks. This guide also includes common name space error messages and a troubleshooting appendix.
Solaris Naming Setup and Configuration Guide	This book describes how to set up and configure NIS+, NIS, FNS, and DNS name services in a Solaris environment. It provides network planning instructions and step-by-step set up and configuration instructions for each of the four naming services. It also describes the name service switch file (`nsswitch.conf`) and how to use it to coordinate the use of multiple naming services in a single environment.
Solaris Smart Cards Administration Guide	This book tells security administrators how to set up Solaris smart cards and card readers so that they can be used to authenticate users attempting to log in to the desktop or other application. It also tells owners how to use their smart cards.
Solaris Transition Guide	This book focuses on the differences between the SunOS release 4 and SunOs release 5.7 operating systems for anyone already familiar with the SunOS release 4 operating system. This book also describes other aspects of the Solaris 7 operating environment that can help end users, developers, and system administrators through the transition.
Solaris Transition Guide Update	This book is designed to be used with Solaris Transition Guide to help users, system administrators, and developers transition from SunOS release 4 to SunOS release 5. Information on differences between the Solaris 1 and Solaris 7 operating environments is documented in the Solaris Transition Guide. This update focuses on those changes specific to SunOS release 5.8 delivered with the Solaris 8 software.
Solaris WBEM Services Administrator's Guide	This book explains Common Information Model (CIM) concepts and describes how to administer Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) services in the Solaris operating environment.
Solstice Enterprise Agents 1.0 User Guide	This book covers Solstice Enterprise Agents^TM, an extensible agent technology that uses the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to manage different components and applications separately within a device. It describes how to install and configure Solstice Enterprise Agents components, how to invoke Master Agents and subagents, and how to use the Desktop Management Interface (DMI).
SunSHIELD Basic Security Module Guide	This document is intended for the system administrator whose duties include setting up and maintaining the SunSHIELD^TM Basic Security Module (BSM). The product provides the security features defined as C2 in the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC). The document includes installation instructions, explains how to administer auditing using BSM, provides audit trail analysis processes, and describes how to allocate devices. In addition, it contains a detailed description of the audit records.
System Administration Guide, Volume 1	This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running the Solaris 8 release. It covers a broad range of Solaris system administration topics such as managing user accounts and groups; managing server and client support; shutting down and booting a system; managing removable media; managing software (packages and patches); managing disks and devices; managing file systems, and backing up and restoring data. Topics are described for both SPARC and IA based systems where appropriate.
System Administration Guide, Volume 2	This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running the Solaris 8 release. It covers a broad range of Solaris system administration topics such as managing printing services; working with remote systems `(rlogin,` `ftp,` and `rcp)`; managing terminals and modems; managing system security; managing system resources (disk quotas, accounting, and crontabs); managing system performance; and troubleshooting Solaris software problems. Topics are described for both SPARC and IA based systems where appropriate.
System Administration Guide, Volume 3	This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running the Solaris 8 release. It covers a broad range of Solaris network administration topics such as managing TCP/IP networks, modems, remote file systems, mail and DHCP. Topics are described for both SPARC and IA based systems where appropriate.