Solaris 7 System Administrator Collection

The Solaris 7 System Administrator Collection contains online documents covering all aspects of system administration and SunOS commands. An abstract of each document follows.

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. The guide 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.

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 guide is intended for the system administrator whose responsibilities include setting up and maintaining mail services.

NFS Administration Guide

The NFS Administration Guide presents the administrative tasks required for the successful operation of the Sun Microsystems NFS^TM distributed file system. This resource-sharing product enables you to share files and directories between 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 a new NIS+ namespace, planning security measures, and running NIS+ in NIS-compatibility mode. It includes the prerequisites and steps required to implement a NIS-to-NIS+ transition.

Solaris Transition Guide

The Solaris Transition Guide focuses on the Solaris 7 operating environment (the distributed computing solution from Sun Microsystems), 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 guide focuses on the differences between the SunOS release 4.x and operating environments, for users already familiar with the SunOS release 4.x operating environment. This guide also describes other aspects of the operating environment that can help end users, developers, and system administrators through the transition.

Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide

The Solaris Common Messages and Troubleshooting Guide lists causes, solutions, background information, and references for more than 250 common Solaris error messages.

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.

Solstice Enterprise Agents 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^TM runtime environment and associated subagents. This document is targeted at system administrators. It gives an overview of the product architecture, functions, features, and components.

SunSHIELD Basic Security Module Guide

The SunSHIELD Basic Security Module Guide 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 manual 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, Vol. I and II

The System Administration Guide, Volume I and the System Administration Guide, Volume II cover 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.

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