Solaris Management Console Overview

Solaris Management Console is new in the 1/01 release.

Solaris Management Console (SMC) 2.0 is a GUI-based "umbrella application" that serves as the launching point for a variety of management tools. The SMC comes complete with a default toolbox that contains the following tools:

• Processes -- Suspend, resume, monitor, and control processes.

• 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 user can perform.

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

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

• Disks -- Create and view disk partitions.

• Serial Ports -- Configure and manage existing serial ports.

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

You can also manage diskless clients, but with commands only, not through the GUI. See "Using the Command Line Interface."

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 SMC Toolbox Editor.

For more information about starting SMC, see "Starting Solaris Management Console". Also see the help associated with each tool.

Using the Command Line Interface

In addition to working with the GUI-based SMC, you can use the command line interface to:

• Populate security-attribute databases in a name service --smattrpop.1m

• Start the SMC -- smc.1m

• Configure the SMC -- smcconf.1m

You can also use commands to manage the following:

• Jobs in the crontab database -- smcron.1m

• Diskless clients:

  • Available only through the command line, not the GUI -- smdiskless.1m

  • Also list OS services for diskless clients and manage patches on all existing diskless clients -- smosservice.1m

  For more information on diskless clients, see Chapter 4, Managing Diskless Clients

• Entries in the exec_attr database -- smexec.1m

• Group entries -- smgroup.1m

• Email alias entries -- smmaillist.1m

• Batch user operations -- smmultiuser.1m

• OS services -- smosservice.1m

• Profiles (rights) in the prof_attr and exec_attr databases -- smprofile.1m

• Roles and users in role accounts -- smrole.1m

• User entries -- smuser.1m

For more information about each command, see the individual man page.