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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

Chapter 1 Solaris Management Tools (Roadmap)

This chapter provides a roadmap to Solaris management tools.

What's New in Solaris Management Tools?

These tools are new or changed in the Solaris 9 release:

The following table provides a brief description of each tool and where to find more information about them.

Table 1–1 New or Changed Solaris Management Tools in the Solaris 9 Release

Solaris Administration Tool 

Description 

For More Information 

Diskless Client Support 

Provides a command-line interface for managing diskless client systems. 

Chapter 8, Managing Diskless Clients (Tasks)

Resource Management 

Enables you to control how applications use available system resources. 

System Administration Guide: Resource Management and Network Services

Solaris DHCP 

Provides improved performance, capacity, and flexibility in managing DHCP in your network. 

“About Solaris DHCP (Overview)” in System Administration Guide: IP Services

Solaris Management Console 1

Serves as a launching point for a variety of GUI-based system management tools. 

This guide and the console online help 

Solaris Volume Manager (previously SolsticeTM DiskSuite)

Provides robust storage management and is launched from the Solaris Management Console. The command-line interface is also available. 

Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide

Solaris Patch Manager 

You can use this tool to add signed and unsigned patches to your system. 

Chapter 24, Managing Solaris Patches (Overview)

Solaris Product Registry 

The prodreg command includes browse, info, unregister, and uninstall subcommands that are similar to the Solaris Product Registry graphical user interface.

Managing Software With the Solaris Product Registry Command-Line Interface (Task Map)

1 Do not confuse this tool with Sun Management Center (SunMC). For information about the Sun Management Center product, see http://www.sun.com/solaris/sunmanagementcenter/docs.

Matrix of Solaris Management Tools Support

This section provides information about tools that are primarily used to manage users, groups, clients, disks, printers, and serial ports.

This table lists the various Solaris management GUI tools and whether they are currently supported.

Table 1–2 Matrix of Solaris Management Tool Support

 

Solaris 2.6 and Earlier Releases 

Solaris 7 

Solaris 8 

Solaris 9  

admintool 

Supported 

Supported 

Supported 

Supported 

Solstice AdminSuite 2.3  

Supported 

Supported 

Not Supported 

Not Supported 

Solstice AdminSuite 3.0  

Supported (Solaris 2.6 release only) 

Supported 

Supported 

Not Supported 

Solaris Management Tools 1.0 

Supported 

Supported 

Supported 

Not Supported 

Solaris Management Tools 2.0 

Not Supported 

Not Supported 

Supported (Solaris 8 01/01, 4/01, 7/01, 10/01, 2/02 releases only) 

Not Supported 

Solaris Management Tools 2.1 

Not Supported 

Not Supported 

Not Supported 

Supported 

If you want to perform administration tasks on a system with a text-based terminal as the console, use Solaris Management Console commands instead. For more information, see Table 1–6.

Feature Descriptions for Solaris 9 Management Tools

This table describes the tools available in the Solaris 9 releases.

Table 1–3 Feature Descriptions for Solaris 9 Management Tools

Feature or Tool 

Supported in admintool? 

Supported in Solaris Management Console 2.1 

AutoClient Support 

No 

No 

Computers and Networks Tool 

No 

Yes 

Diskless Client Support 

No 

Yes, a diskless client CLI is available 

Disks Tool 

No 

Yes 

Enhanced Disk Tool (Solaris Volume Manager) 

No 

Yes 

Job Scheduler 

No 

Yes 

Log Viewer 

No 

Yes 

Mail Alias Support 

No 

Yes 

Mounts and Shares Tool 

No 

Yes 

Name Service Support 

No 

For users, groups, and network information only 

Patch Tool 

No 

Yes 

Performance Tool 

No 

Yes 

Printer Support 

Yes 

Solaris Print Manager is available separately 

Projects Tool 

No 

Yes 

RBAC Support 

No 

Yes 

RBAC Tool 

No 

Yes 

Serial Port Tool 

Yes 

Yes 

Software Package Tool 

Yes 

No 

System Information Tool 

No 

Yes 

User/Group Tool 

Yes 

Yes 

Feature Descriptions for Solaris 8 Management Tools

This table lists the tools that are available in the Solaris 8 release and various Solaris 8 update releases.

Table 1–4 Feature Descriptions for Solaris 8 Management Tools

Feature or Tool 

Supported in admintool? 

Supported in Solstice AdminSuite 3.0? (Solaris 8 and Solaris 8 6/00 and 10/00 only) 

Supported in Solaris Management Console 1.0? 

Supported in Solaris Management Console 2.0? (Solaris 8 1/01, 4/01, 7/01, 10/01, 2/02 only) 

AutoClient/Diskless Client Support 

No 

No (but an AutoClient CLI is available separately) 

No 

No (but a diskless CLI and AutoClient CLI is available separately) 

Disks Tool 

No 

No 

No 

Yes 

Job Scheduler 

No 

No 

No 

Yes 

Log Viewer 

No 

Yes 

No 

Yes 

Mail Alias Support 

No 

Yes 

No 

Yes 

Mounts and Shares Tool 

No 

Yes 

No 

Yes 

Name Service Support 

No 

Yes 

No 

For users, groups, and network information only 

Printer Support 

Yes 

Solaris Print Manager is available 

Yes 

No, but Solaris Print Manager is available 

Software Package Tool 

Yes 

No 

Yes 

No 

RBAC Support 

No 

Yes (rights support only) 

No 

Yes 

RBAC Tool 

No 

RBAC CLI is available separately 

No 

Yes 

Serial Port Tool 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

User/Group Tool 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

Feature Descriptions for Previous Solaris Management Tools

This table describes the tools that are available in releases prior to the Solaris 8 release.

Table 1–5 Feature Descriptions for Previous Solaris Management Tools

Feature or Tool 

Supported in admintool? 

Supported in Solstice AdminSuite 2.3? 

Supported in Solstice AdminSuite 3.0? (Solaris 2.6 only) 

AutoClient/Diskless Client Support 

No 

Yes 

No (but an AutoClient CLI is available separately for Solaris 8 releases) 

Disks Tool 

No 

Yes 

No 

Log Viewer 

No 

No 

Yes 

Mail Alias Support 

No 

Yes 

Yes 

Mounts and Shares Tool 

No 

Yes 

Yes 

Name Service Support 

No 

Yes 

Yes 

Printer Support 

Yes 

Yes 

Solaris Print Manager is available 

RBAC Support 

No 

No 

Yes (rights support only) 

RBAC Tool 

No 

No 

RBAC CLI is available separately 

Serial Port Tool 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

User/Group Tool 

Yes 

Yes 

Yes 

Availability of Solaris Management Commands

This series of tables lists commands that perform the same tasks as the Solaris management tools. For information on diskless client support, see Chapter 8, Managing Diskless Clients (Tasks).

Solaris 9 System Management Commands

This table describes the commands that provide the same functionality as the Solaris management tools. You must be superuser or assume an equivalent role to use these commands. Some of these commands are for the local system only. Others commands operate in a name service environment. See the appropriate man page and refer to the -D option.

Table 1–6 Descriptions for Solaris Management Commands

Command 

Description 

Man Page 

smc

 

Starts the Solaris Management Console 

smc(1M)

smcron

Manages crontab jobs

smcron(1M)

smdiskless

Manages diskless client support 

smdiskless(1M)

smexec

Manages entries in the exec_attr database

smexec(1M)

smgroup

Manages group entries 

smgroup(1M)

smlog

Manages and views WBEM log files 

smlog(1M)

smmultiuser

Manages bulk operations on multiple user accounts 

smmultiuser(1M)

smosservice

Adds OS services and diskless client support 

smosservice(1M)

smprofile

Manages profiles in the prof_attr and exec_attr databases

smprofile(1M)

smrole

Manages roles and users in role accounts 

smrole(1M)

smserialport

Manages serial ports 

smserialport(1M)

smuser

Manages user entries 

smuser(1M)

This table describes the commands you can use to manage RBAC from the command line. You must be superuser or assume an equivalent role to use these commands. These commands cannot be used to manage RBAC information in a name service environment.

Table 1–7 RBAC Command Descriptions

Command 

Description 

References 

auths

Displays authorizations granted to a user 

auths(1)

profiles

Displays execution profiles for a user 

profiles(1)

roleadd

Adds a new role to the system 

roleadd(1M)

roles

Displays roles granted to a user 

roles(1)

This table describes the commands you can use to manage users, groups, and RBAC features from the command line. You must be superuser or assume an equivalent role to use these commands. These commands cannot be used to manage user and group information in a name service environment.

Table 1–8 Solaris User/Group Command Descriptions

Command 

Description 

References 

useradd, usermod, userdel

Adds, modifies, or removes a user. 

useradd(1M), usermod(1M), userdel(1M)

groupadd, groupmod, groupdel

Adds, modifies, or removes a group. 

groupadd(1M), groupmod(1M), groupdel(1M)

Solaris 8 System Management Commands

All of the commands listed Table 1–7 and Table 1–8 are available in the Solaris 8 release.

Descriptions for Previous Solaris Management Commands

This table describes the commands that provide equivalent functionality to the Solstice AdminSuiteTM 2.3 and Solstice AutoClientTM 2.3 GUI tools. You must be superuser or be a member of the sysadmin group to use these commands.

Note –

The Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 and Solstice AutoClient 2.3 command man pages are not available online. You must have access to the Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 and Solstice AutoClient 2.3 software to view these man pages.

All of the commands listed in Table 1–8 are also available in previous Solaris releases.

Table 1–9 Descriptions for Solstice AdminSuiteTM 2.3/Solstice AutoClientTM 2.1 Commands

Command 

Description 

For More Information 

admhostadd, admhostmod, admhostdel, admhostls

Adds, modifies, removes, and lists support for client and server systems set up with the AdminSuite software 

Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 Administration Guide and Solstice AutoClient 2.1 Administration Guide

admuseradd, admusermod, admuserdel, admuserls, admgroupadd, admgroupmod, admgroupdel, admgroupls

Adds, modifies, removes, and lists users and groups 

Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 Administration Guide

For More Information About Solaris Management Tools

This table identifies where to find more information about Solaris management tools.

Table 1–10 For More Information About Solaris Management Tools

Tool 

Availability 

For More Information 

Solaris Management Console 2.1 suite of tools 

Solaris 9 releases 

This guide and the console online help 

Solaris Management Console 2.0 suite of tools 

Solaris 8 1/01, 4/01, 7/01, 10/01, and 2/02 releases 

The Solaris Management Console online help 

Solaris Management Console 1.0 suite of tools 

Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7, and Solaris 8 releases 

Solaris Easy Access Server 3.0 Installation Guide

admintool 

Solaris 9, Solaris 8, and previous Solaris releases 

admintool(1M)

AdminSuite 2.3 

Solaris 2.4, Solaris 2.5, Solaris 2.5.1, Solaris 2.6, and Solaris 7 releases 

Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 Administration Guide

AdminSuite 3.0 

Solaris 8, Solaris 8 6/00, and Solaris 8 10/00 releases 

Solaris Easy Access Server 3.0 Installation Guide

AutoClient 3.0.1 

Solaris 8 releases 

 

Call your local service provider 

 

 

Solaris 9 releases – Consider using the Web Start Flash installation feature 

Solaris 9 12/03 Installation Guide

Diskless Client CLI 

Solaris 8 1/01, 4/01, 7/01, 10/01, 2/02, and Solaris 9 releases 

Chapter 8, Managing Diskless Clients (Tasks)