System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

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.