- Book Information
- Preface
- Chapter 1 What's New in Solaris 9
Releases
- New Features by Solaris Release
- New AMD Opteron Servers and Workstations
- File System Enhancements
- System Administration Tools
- Multi-Owner Disk Set Support With Solaris Volume Manager for Sun Cluster
- Expanded Disk Set Support in the Solaris Volume Manager
- Top-Down Volume Creation in Solaris Volume Manager
- Signed Packages and Patches
- NIS-to-LDAP Transition Service
- BIND 8.3.3
- Multiterabyte Volume Support in Solaris Volume Manager
- Reconfiguration Coordination Manager Support in Solaris Volume Manager
- Solaris Patch Update Feature
- Combine Data Address and Test Address for Single IP Network Multipathing Group
- Device Management
- Language Support Enhancements
- Locale Administrator
- New Solaris Unicode Locales
- Code Conversions for Internationalized Domain Name Support
- Standard Type Services Framework
- Common Transliteration-based Input Method for All Indian languages
- Unicode Version 3.2 Support
- Additional Keyboard Support
- Wubi Input Method
- Input Method Support for Indic
- Seven Additional Indic Scripts for Support in Unicode Locales
- Development Tool Enhancements
- Solaris Documentation Changes
- New and Revised Documentation in the Solaris 9 9/04 Release
- New and Revised Documentation in the Solaris 9 4/04 Release
- New and Revised Documentation in the Solaris 9 12/03 Release
- New and Revised Documentation in the Solaris 9 8/03 Release
- New and Revised Documentation in the Solaris 9 4/03 Release
- New Solaris WBEM Developer's Guide
- New and Revised Documentation in the Solaris 9 12/02 Release
- NIS+-to-LDAP Transition Documentation
- New and Revised Documentation in the Solaris 9 9/02 Release
- Installation Enhancements
- Creating RAID-1 Volumes (Mirrors) With Custom JumpStart
- x86: Specifying Boot Properties With add_install_client Command
- WAN Boot Installation Method
- Solaris Live Upgrade 2.1
- Custom JumpStart Installation Method Creates New Boot Environment
- Solaris Flash Archives
- Solaris Flash Differential Archives and Configuration Scripts
- Customizing Content in a Solaris Flash Archive
- Command-Line Interface Enhancements to the Solaris Product Registry
- Support for LDAP Version 2 Profiles
- Additional Software
- Sun Java Enterprise System Joins Solaris
- Networking Enhancements
- Sun ONE Application Server Integration
- Sun ONE Message Queue
- TCP Multidata Transmit
- Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) 6to4 Router
- Packet Tunneling Over IPv6
- Hosting Multiple Web Sites on a Single Solaris Machine
- IP Quality of Service
- User Selector for Internet Protocol Quality of Service (IPQoS)
- Routing Information Protocol Version 2 (RIPv2)
- Security Enhancements
- sadmind Security Level Raised
- Kerberos Enhancements
- Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Key Storage on Sun Crypto Accelerator 4000 Board
- Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Hardware Acceleration
- Auditing Enhancements
- Smart Card Terminal Interfaces
- Enhanced crypt() Function
- Password Management Feature in pam_ldap
- Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM) Enhancement
- System Resources Enhancements
- System Performance Enhancements
- Web Browser Enhancements
- Desktop Features
- X11 Windowing Features
- Freeware Enhancements
- Chapter 2 Features in
the Solaris 9 Release
- System Resources Enhancements
- Networking Enhancements
- Sun ONE Directory Server
- Naming Service Support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
- NIS+-to-LDAP Migration Tools
- IP Security Architecture for IPv6
- Enhanced inetd Command
- Solaris FTP Client
- Trivial File Transfer Protocols (TFTP) Enhancements
- Support for IPv6 Over ATM
- Enhanced snoop Packet Capture
- Solaris PPP 4.0
- Sun Internet FTP Server
- Extensions to the Sun RPC Library
- Enhancements to sendmail
- Solaris Network Cache and Accelerator (NCA)
- IP Network Multipathing
- SPARC: IP Network Multipathing DLPI Link-Up and Link-Down Notification Support
- Mobile Internet Protocol
- Mobile Internet Protocol (Mobile IP) Agent Advertisements Over Dynamic Interfaces
- Berkeley Internet Name Domain
- Networking Freeware
- System Administration Tools
- Solaris Volume Manager
- Unified diff Format
- Generic Log Rotation Facility
- Solaris Management Console
- Patch Manager
- Solaris WBEM Services 2.5
- CIM Object Manager Now Listens to HTTP Port 5988
- SNMP Adapter for WBEM
- Solaris Product Registry 3.0
- Modify Software Groups in Solaris Web Start Program
- System Administration Freeware Tools
- File System Enhancements
- Installation Enhancements
- Solaris Live Upgrade 2.0
- Web Start Flash Installation Feature
- Web Start Flash Archive Retrieval Using FTP
- Minimal Installation
- x86: PXE Network Boot
- Longer Package Names
- Installation From the Solaris DVD
- Solaris Web Start Program Uses sysidcfg File
- Enhancements to the Solaris Web Start Program
- Additions to Time Zone Selections
- Solaris Web Start Wizards SDK 3.0.1
- New Boot Options for a Custom JumpStart Installation
- Upgrading Mirrors
- Default Routing With System Identification Utilities
- Configuration With System Identification Utilities
- Patch Analyzer
- System Performance Enhancements
- Server and Client Management
- Security Enhancements
- Internet Key Exchange (IKE) Protocol
- Solaris Secure Shell
- Kerberos Key Distribution Center (KDC) and Administration Tools
- Secure LDAP Client
- Encryption Modules for IPsec and Kerberos
- IP Security Architecture for IPv6
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) Enhancements
- Xserver Security Options
- Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSS-API)
- Additional Security Software
- Xserver Features
- Removable Media Management
- Device Management
- Development Tools
- Compatibility of Solaris and Linux Application Programming Interfaces
- Choice of XML Output for Live Upgrade Messages
- SPARC: Multiple Page Size Support
- Improved Multithreading Library
- Perl Version 5.6.1
- Unified diff Format
- Sysevent Framework
- Kernel Pseudo-Random Number Generator
- SPARC: Application Interface to Remote Shared Memory on Clusters
- GNU-Compatible Version of the gettext() API Functions
- Extended File Attributes
- New Fixed-Priority (FX) Scheduling Class
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)
- Solaris Web Start Wizards SDK 3.0.1
- Modular Debugger (mdb)
- Audio Enhancements
- Vectored System Call: sendfilev()
- Verify File Conformance With the appcert Utility
- Generic Security Services Application Programming Interface (GSS-API)
- Web-Based Enterprise Management Tools
- Writing Device Drivers
- Java Releases
- Solaris 9 Features for Desktop Users
- Solaris 9 Language Support
- Improved Data Interoperability
- New TrueType Fonts
- Expanded Unicode Support
- Print Filter Enhancement—the mp Program
- New iconv Modules
- Enhanced Conversion of Dtpad File Open/Save Codeset
- Support for the New Chinese GB18030-2000 Character Set
- New zh_CN.GB18030 Locale Enhanced From zh_CN.GBK
- New Chinese and Korean Collation Locales
- Wordbreaker Modules for Thai
- New Asian UTF-8 (Unicode) Locales
- New Thai Input Method
- New Chinese Input Methods
- New Auxiliary Window for Chinese Input Methods
- New zh_HK.BIG5HK Locale to Support HKSCS for Hong Kong, China
- Additional Japanese iconv Modules
- New European and Middle Eastern Keyboard Support
- New Unicode (UTF-8) Locales for Europe and the Middle East
- Euro Default Currency Support
- Additional Software
- Freeware Enhancements
- Companion CD