System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

Topics for the Solaris 9 Release

The following services or utilities are covered in this book:

Chapter 5, Introduction to Solaris 9 Resource Manager

Resource management functionality enhances your ability to allocate, monitor, and control system resources. 

Chapter 14, Managing Network File Systems (Overview)

NFS is a protocol that provides the ability to access file systems from a remote host. 

Chapter 18, SLP (Overview)

SLP is a dynamic service discovery protocol. 

Chapter 24, Mail Services (Overview)

Mail services allow for a message to be sent to one or more people while routing the message over whatever networks are necessary. 

Chapter 29, Solaris PPP 4.0 (Overview)

PPP is a protocol that provides point-to-point links between remote hosts. 

Chapter 38, Overview of UUCP

UUCP enables hosts to exchange files 

Chapter 42, Working With Remote Systems (Overview)

These commands are used to access files on remote systems. The commands include ftp, rlogin and rcp.

Chapter 2, Managing Web Cache Servers

NCA provides improved web server performance by caching web pages. 

"Perl 5"

The Practical Extraction and Report Language (Perl) is a tool that can be used to generate scripts to assist with system administration tasks.