Administering Systems, Networks, and Security Mechanisms

What's New in the Solaris 9 Operating Environment

This book contains high-level feature descriptions of new functionality in the Solaris 9 operating environment. Chapters summarize new features for desktop users, system administrators, and software developers. The system administration chapter includes Solaris 9 installation features. New Java features are also summarized. 

Solaris 9 Release Notes for the appropriate platform

These books, published in the Solaris 9 documentation set and in the Installation Kiosk, describe important installation and runtime issues and bugs. These Release Notes also include new feature descriptions, end-of-software support statements, and documentation issues. 

For any updates, see the Solaris 9 Release Notes on http://docs.sun.com.

Font Administrator User's Guide

This book provides detailed instructions for managing fonts in the OpenWindows environment.  

Solaris Java Plug-in User's Guide

This book describes the Java Plug-In component of the Java 2 Platform for the Solaris operating environment. This book contains information that is useful to applet developers and web site managers who host applets on their web pages. The Java Plug-in component is an add-on product for Netscape Navigator^TM and the Netscape^TM Communicator web browser. This component enables Java applets to run on the latest version of the Java Runtime Environment rather than the default Java Runtime Environment that ships with the browser.

Solaris Smartcard Administration Guide

This book is intended for Solaris system and network administrators who are responsible for setting up smart cards on systems that require secure login authentication. Although no new software features are in this release, obsolete or inaccurate references have been removed from the documentation, bug fixes have been incorporated, and some new explanatory text has been added.  

Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual

This book provides reference information on Solaris tunable parameters. The book is intended for experienced Solaris system administrators who might need to change kernel tunable parameters in certain situations. 

Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

This book provides instructions on using Solaris Volume Manager to manage disk storage. This book describes the creation, modification, and use of RAID 0 (concatenation and stripe) volumes, RAID 1 (mirror) volumes, and RAID 5 volumes, in addition to soft partitions and transactional logging devices.  

Solaris WBEM Services Administration 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. The book 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).

System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the Solaris 9 release. The book covers a broad range of Solaris system administration topics. These topics include 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. 

System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the Solaris 9 release. The book covers a broad range of Solaris system administration topics. These topics include managing printing services, managing terminals and modems, managing system resources (disk quotas, accounting, and crontabs), managing system processes, and troubleshooting Solaris software problems. 

System Administration Guide: IP Services

This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the Solaris 9 release. The book covers a broad range of Internet Protocol (IP) network administration services. These services include managing TCP/IP networks, IPv4 and IPv6, DHCP, IP Security, Mobile IP, and IP Network Multipathing. 

System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP)

This book covers the setup and administration of the naming and directory services that are currently supported in the Solaris operating environment. DNS, NIS and LDAP are included in this book. 

System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+)

This book covers the setup and administration of the naming and directory services that are currently supported in the Solaris operating environment. FNS and NIS+ are included in this book. 

System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the Solaris 9 release. The book covers a broad range of Solaris network administration topics such as resource management, modems, remote file systems, mail, SLP, and PPP. 

System Administration Guide: Security Services

This book is for anyone responsible for administering the security requirements for one or more systems that run the Solaris 9 release. The book covers a broad range of Solaris security-related topics such as auditing, PAM, RBAC, SEAM, and Solaris secure shell. 

Solaris Common Desktop Environment: Advanced User's and System Administrator's Guide

This book explains the advanced tasks that are needed to customize the appearance and behavior of the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE). The book includes chapters on customizing system initialization, login, session initiation, and adding applications and providing interface representations for applications and their data. Other topics include configuring desktop processes, applications, and data across the network; and customizing desktop services such as window management, printing, colors, and fonts. 

iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Deployment Guide

This book provides directory decision-makers, designers, and administrators with a foundation for planning your iPlanet Directory Server implementation. This book covers aspects of directory design, including schema design, the directory tree, topology, replication, and security. The book also provides sample deployment scenarios to help you plan simple deployments as well as complex deployments designed to support users who are distributed worldwide. 

iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Administrator's Guide

This book provides practical instructions on configuring, populating and replicating directory databases; creating and managing access control, directory entries, indexes, and user accounts; monitoring and tuning directory performance, and much more. 

iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Configuration, Command, and File Reference

This book offers administrators and experienced users a complete reference for configuring the iPlanet Directory Server and managing it with the command-line tools. 

iPlanet Directory Server 5.1 Schema Reference

This book describes the standard user directory schema for the iPlanet Directory Server. This book covers all object classes and attributes that are defined by the standard schema, and the operational attributes in the server. The information provided here is intended for the administrator who manages and maintains the schema.