Solaris 2.6 System Administrator Collection Volume 1

The Solaris 2.6 System Administrator Collection Volume 1 contains online documents covering all aspects of system administration and SunOS commands. A list of documents with their abstracts follow.

Solaris Advanced Installation Guide

The Advanced Installation Guide describes how to install the Solaris operating environment on both networked and non-networked systems. Although this book can be used to perform one-time installations, it provides detailed information on the Solaris advanced installation features that should be used for enterprise sites that have a large install base. The advanced Solaris installation features include setting up network installations, preconfiguring system information, and automating installations with the custom JumpStart technology.

About Solaris 2.6 Documentation

The About Solaris 2.6 Documentation lists the documentation you might need for installing and using Solaris 2.6. It also provides a graphical organization of the documents by task, abstracts for these documents, and information on other sources that might be helpful when using this release of Solaris.

Binary Compatibility Guide

The Binary Compatibility Guide emulates SunOS 4.x. This allows executables compiled and linked on SunOS 4.x to execute on Solaris 2.x. The book describes how to use the package. It also describes the limits that an executable must stay within to be run under the Binary Compatibility Package.

Font Administrator User's Guide

The Font Administrator User's Guide provides detailed instructions for managing fonts in the OpenWindows environment.

Information Library For Solaris 2.6 (SPARC or Intel Platform Edition)

The Information Library for Solaris 2.6 is primarily a reference book. It includes installing Solaris and other software in the desktop box. It is also provided as a printed document.

The first section contains step-by-step instructions on how to plan an installation. The steps point to other sections in the Information Library. Planning an installation guarantees that you do not run into problems because of unsupported devices, or not enough disk space, and ensures that you have gathered system information required during the installation.

Mail Administration Guide

The Mail Administration Guide presents the concepts and procedures required to establish and maintain electronic mail services. Special focus is given to the configuration files needed for sendmail. This book is intended for the system administrator whose responsibilities include setting up and maintaining mail services.

NFS(TM) Administration Guide

The NFS Administration Guide presents the administrative tasks required for the successful operation of the SunSoft NFS distributed file system. This resource-sharing product enables you to share files and directories among a number of computers on a network. Also included in this book is how to set up and use autofs (formerly called the automounter) to automatically mount and unmount NFS file systems.

NIS+ Transition Guide

The NIS+ Transition Guide 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 your new NIS+ namespace, planning your security measures, and running NIS+ in NIS-compatibility mode. It includes the prerequisites and steps required to implement an NIS to NIS+ transition.

Solaris Naming Administration Guide

The Solaris Naming Administration Guide describes how to customize and administer existing NIS+, NIS, FNS, and DNS namespaces. 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 namespace administration tasks. This guide also includes common namespace error messages and a troubleshooting appendix.

Solaris Naming Setup and Configuration Guide

The Solaris Naming Administration Guide 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 name 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 1.x to 2.x Transition Guide

The Solaris 1.x to 2.x Transition Guide focuses on the Solaris 2.6 operating environment (the distributed computing solution from SunSoft), which consists of SunOS release 5.6 with the ONC^TM, OpenWindows, ToolTalk, DeskSet^TM, and OPEN LOOK features as well as other utilities. This book focuses on the differences between the SunOS release 4.x and operating systems, for users already familiar with the SunOS release 4.x operating system. This book also describes other aspects of the operating environment that can help end users, developers, and system administrators through the transition.

Solstice Enterprise Agents^TM 1.0 User Guide

The Solstice Enterprise Agents 1.0 User Guide introduces the product and explains how to install, configure, and administer the Solstice(TM) Enterprise Agents runtime environment and associated subagents. This document is targeted towards System Administrators. It gives an overview of the product architecture, functions, features, and components.

SunSHIELD^TM Basic Security Module Guide

The SunSHIELD Basic Security Module Guide is intended for the system administrator whose duties include setting up and maintaining the Basic Security Module (BSM). The product provides the security features defined as C2 in the Trusted Computer System Evaluation Criteria (TCSEC). The manual includes installation instructions, explains how to administer auditing using BSM, provides audit trail analysis processes, and describes how to allocate devices. In addition, a detailed description of the audit records is included.

System Administration Guide

The System Administration Guide 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 (CDs, diskettes, and PCMCIA cards); managing software (packages and patches); managing disks and devices; managing file systems, backing up and restoring data; 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.

The above topics are described for both SPARC and x86 systems where appropriate.

Notice that the System Administration Guide in this AnswerBook combines both volumes 1 and 2 of this guide.

This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running the Solaris 2.x release.

TCP/IP and Data Communications Administration Guide

The TCP/IP and Data Communications Administration Guide explains how to set up, maintain, and expand a network using the Solaris(TM) implementation of the TCP/IP protocol suite. The text assumes that you are familiar with the Solaris environment and defines tasks involved in network planning, configuration, and administration. Sections are devoted to communications with remote machines using Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) and UNIX-to-UNIX Copy Program (UUCP).

Part 4 on Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) was added for the Solaris 2.6 release. Appendix A was also added for DHCP.