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| Start Here Provides a pictorial overview that highlights Oracle Solaris 11 features and documentation. Available only in PDF format. | Download  | |
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| Oracle Solaris 11 Release Notes Provides late-breaking news, known issues, and similar information. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris 11 End-of-Feature (EOF) List Links to a page that identifies features that are being removed in this release. | ||
| Transitioning From Oracle Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11 Identifies tasks that you might need to do to move from an existing Solaris 10 environment. | Download |
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| Installing Oracle Solaris 11 Systems Describes how to set up an automated installation or how to install using the LiveDVD or the text installer. | Download | |
| Creating and Administering Oracle Solaris 11 Boot Environments Describes how to manage boot environments in global and non-global zones. | Download | |
| Transitioning From Oracle Solaris 10 JumpStart to Oracle Solaris 11 Automated Installer Describes how to convert JumpStart rules, profiles, and sysidcfg files for use with Oracle Solaris 11 Automated Installer. | Download | |
| Creating a Custom Oracle Solaris 11 Installation Image Explains how to use the Distribution Constructor to customize your installation image. | Download | |
| Adding and Updating Oracle Solaris 11 Software Packages Explains how to add software after initial operating system installation. | Download | |
| Copying and Creating Oracle Solaris 11 Package Repositories Describes how to copy, update, make accessible, and maintain an Oracle Solaris Image Packaging System (IPS) software package repository. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris 11 Installation Man Pages Reference information (man pages) for installation-related commands. | Download | |
| Image Packaging System Man Pages Reference information (man pages) for IPS commands and tools. | Download |
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| Creating and Administering Oracle Solaris 11 Boot Environments Describes how to manage boot environments, including non-global zones. | Download | |
| Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on SPARC Platforms Includes information about concepts, guidelines, and tools for booting a SPARC-based system that is running Oracle Solaris 11. | Download | |
| Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on x86 Platforms Includes information about concepts, guidelines, and tools including GRUB2 for booting an x86-based system that is running Oracle Solaris 11. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: Common Tasks Explains how to perform basic and common administration tasks, such as adding users, managing services, and managing devices. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: Devices and File Systems Explains use of removable media, disks, and devices. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: IP Services Describes administration of TCP/IP networks, IPv4 and IPv6, DHCP, IPsec, IKE, IP filter, and IPQoS. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: Naming and Directory Services Discusses use of DNS, NIS, and LDAP naming services, including how to transition from NIS to LDAP. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: Network Interfaces and Network Virtualization Explains configuration of network interfaces, NWAM, VLANs and link aggregations, IP network multipathing, virtual NICs, wireless networks, and network resource management. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: Network Services Discusses web cache servers, time-related services, network file system (NFS and autofs), mail, SLP, and PPP. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle Solaris 10 Zones, and Resource Management Discusses zones technology, which enables you to virtualize operating system services to create isolated environments for running applications, and resource management, which controls how applications use system resources. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: SAN Configuration and Multipathing Provides detailed information about managing Storage Area Networks. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: Security Services Describes services that keep your system, data, users, and processes secure, including auditing, the cryptographic framework, PAM, secure shell, and RBAC. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: SMB and Windows Interoperability Describes use of the Oracle Solaris SMB service and how to map user and group identities between Oracle Solaris systems and Windows systems. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: ZFS File Systems Provides detailed information on managing ZFS, including creating file systems, storage pools, snapshots, clones, and backups. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Guide Provides reference information about the Oracle Solaris OS kernel and network tunable parameters for both SPARC and x86 systems. | Download | |
| Oracle VTS (Validation Test Suite) Provides information on Oracle Validation Test Suite, diagnostic software for SPARC and x86 systems. | ||
| How to Perform System Archival and Recovery Procedures With Oracle Solaris 11 Provides detailed information on system recovery. | ||
| International Language Environments Guide Provides information about internationalization and localization features in Oracle Solaris 11. |
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| Oracle Solaris 11 Security Guidelines Provides an overview of Oracle Solaris security features and the guidelines for using those features to protect an installed system and its applications. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Administration: Security Services Describes services that keep your system, data, users, and processes secure, including auditing, the cryptographic framework, PAM, secure shell, and RBAC. | Download | |
| Developer's Guide to Oracle Solaris 11 Security Explains how to develop applications that provide security services or that consume security services. | Download | |
| Trusted Extensions Configuration and Administration Explains how to enable and configure Trusted Extensions and provides procedures for administering trusted systems and the trusted network that are unique to this labeled environment. | Download | |
| Trusted Extensions User's Guide Describes how to work in a multilevel environment when the Trusted Extensions feature is enabled. | Download | |
| Trusted Extensions Label Administration Describes the Trusted Extensions implementation of labels, assists administrators in planning and implementing labels, and provides a detailed example. | Download | |
| Trusted Extensions Developer's Guide Describes how to use the available application programming interfaces to write trusted applications for systems that are configured to use the Trusted Extensions feature. | Download | |
| Compartmented Mode Workstation Labeling: Encodings Format Is a copy of the U.S. government publication DDS-2600-6215-93, release 2.2, that documents the standard label encodings specification. | Download |
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| Oracle Solaris 11 Accessibility Guide for the GNOME Desktop Provides information about accessibility features in the default desktop that is included with Oracle Solaris. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris 11 User's Guide for the GNOME Desktop Explains how to use the default desktop that is included with Oracle Solaris. | Download | |
| Optimizing the Oracle Solaris 11 Desktop for a Multi-User Environment Explains how to best enable the desktop for multi-user environments. | Download |
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| Introduction to the Oracle Solaris 11 Developer Environment Provides an overview of development tools and processes in the Oracle Solaris environment. | Download | |
| Copying and Creating Oracle Solaris 11 Package Repositories Describes how to copy, update, make accessible, and maintain an Oracle Solaris Image Packaging System (IPS) software package repository. | Download | |
| Linker and Libraries Guide Describes the Oracle Solaris link editor and runtime linker, along with the objects on which they operate. | Download | |
| ONC+ Developer's Guide Explains how to develop applications within the ONC+ open systems distributed computing technologies, including TI-RPC, XDR, and NFS. | Download | |
| Resource Management and Oracle Solaris Zones Developer's Guide Describes how to write applications that partition and manage system resources. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Dynamic Tracing Guide Explains how to use the dynamic tracing framework to observe, debug, and tune system behavior. | Download | |
| Programming Interfaces Guide Describes system and network interfaces for use in developing applications. | Download | |
| Writing Device Drivers Explains how to design and build device drivers for various device types, include character-oriented, block-oriented, network-based, SCSI, HBA, and USB devices. | Download |
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| man pages section 1: User Commands Reference information (man pages) for Oracle Solaris user commands. | Download | |
| man pages section 1M: System Administration Commands Reference information (man pages) for Oracle Solaris administration commands. | Download | |
| man pages section 2: System Calls Reference information (man pages) for Oracle Solaris system calls. | Download | |
| man pages section 3: Library Interfaces and Headers Reference information (man pages) for Oracle Solaris library interfaces and headers. | Download | |
| man pages section 3: Basic Library Functions Reference information (man pages) for Oracle Solaris basic library functions. | Download | |
| man pages section 3: Networking Library Functions Reference information (man pages) for Oracle Solaris network-specific library functions. | Download | |
| man pages section 3: Extended Library Functions, Volume 1 Reference information (man pages) for asynchronous I/O (libaio), security and auditing (libbsm), configuration administration (libcgfadm), contract management (libcontract), CPU performance counters (libcpc), direct access transport (libdat), device ID (libdevid), device information (libdevinfo), executable and linking format (libelf), extended accounting file access (libexacct), and file system type identification (libfstyp). | Download | |
| man pages section 3: Extended Library Functions, Volume 2 Reference information (man pages) for string-pattern matching (libgen), common fibre channel HBA (libhbaapi), kernel statistics (libkstat), kernel VM (libkvm), layout services (liblayout), locality group (liblgrp), mathematical functions (libm), user mailbox (libmail), multiple precision (libmp), common mulitpath management (libmpapi), and vector math (libmvec). | Download | |
| man pages section 3: Extended Library Functions, Volume 3 Reference information (man pages) for name-value pair (libnvpair), pluggable authentication module (libpam), open printing API (libpapi), perl (libperl), PICL (libpicl), PICL plug-in (libpciltree), pool configuration manipuliation (libpool), process control (libproc), project database access (libproject), remove shared memory (libsrm), and realtime (librt). | Download | |
| man pages section 3: Extended Library Functions, Volume 4 Reference information (man pages) for service configuration facility (libscf), file access control (libsec), security attributes database (libsecdb), smartcard (libsmartcard), SNMP (libsnmp), system event (libsysevent), interactive comman-line input (libtecla), TNF probe control (libtnfctl), universally unique identifier (libuuid), volume management (libvolmgt), and product install registry (libswreg). | Download | |
| man pages section 3: Curses Library Functions Reference information (man pages) for libraries that provide graphics and character screen updating capabilities. | Download | |
| man pages section 3: Multimedia Library Functions Reference information (man pages) for the multimedia processing library (libmlib). | Download | |
| man pages section 4: File Formats Reference information (man pages) for various file formats. | Download | |
| man pages section 5: Standards, Environments, and Macros Reference information (man pages) for various miscellaneous subjects, including headers, environments, macro packages, character sets, and standards. | Download | |
| man pages section 7: Device and Network Interfaces Reference information (man pages) for device and network interfaces. | Download | |
| man pages section 9: DDI and DKI Driver Entry Points Reference information (man pages) for entry-point routines for calling and return syntax from the kernel to the device driver. | Download | |
| man pages section 9: DDI and DKI Kernel Functions Reference information (man pages) for calling and return syntax from the a device driver to the kernel. | Download | |
| man pages section 9: DDI and DKI Properties and Data Structures Reference information (man pages) for kernel properties used by device drivers and data structures used to share information between the kernel and device drivers. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris 11 Installation Man Pages Reference information (man pages) for installation-related commands. | Download | |
| Image Packaging System Man Pages Reference information (man pages) for IPS commands and tools. | Download |
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| Device Driver Tutorial Provides hands-on information, including real-world examples, on how to develop device drivers. Note: This link takes you to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express library. | Download | |
| Memory and Thread Placement Optimization Developer's Guide Explains how to improve application performance by specifying locality groups and using memory placement optimization. Note: This link takes you to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express library. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris Modular Debugger Guide Describes the general-purpose modular debugging tool. Note: This link takes you to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express Library. | Download | |
| Multithreaded Programming Guide Explains how to improve application performance and structure by using POSIX and Solaris threads APIs. Note: This link takes you to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express library. | Download | |
| SIP API Developer's Guide Provides reference information for the Session Initiation Protocol AP and library. Note: This link takes you to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express Library. | Download | |
| Oracle Solaris WBEM Developer's Guide Oracle Solaris 11 Express WBEM developer information that applies unchanged for Oracle Solaris 11. Note: This link takes you to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express library. | Download | |
| SPARC Assembly Language Reference Manual Oracle Solaris 11 Express SPARC assembler information that applies unchanged for Oracle Solaris 11. Note: This link takes you to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express library. | Download | |
| x86 Assembly Language Reference Manual Oracle Solaris 11 Express x86 assembler information that applies unchanged for Oracle Solaris 11. Note: This link takes you to the Oracle Solaris 11 Express library. | Download | |
| OpenBoot 4.x Command Reference Manual Provides low-level reference information for the OpenBoot firmware. Note: This link takes you to the Oracle Solaris 10 library. | Download | |
| Writing FCode 3.x Programs Provides information on designing PCI interface cards and other devices that use the FCode language. Note: This link takes you to the Oracle Solaris 10 library. | Download | |
| Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide Provides instructions on using Solaris Volume Manager to manage disk storage. Note: This link takes you to the Oracle Solaris 10 9/10 library. | Download |
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| Oracle Solaris 11 Product Center Links to product technical marketing information for Oracle Solaris 11. | ||
| Oracle Solaris 11 How-To Articles Links to product technical marketing articles for Oracle Solaris 11. | ||
| Oracle Solaris 11 Technologies Links to product technical marketing material covering key Oracle Solaris 11 technologies. | ||
| Oracle Solaris 11 Animations and Videos Links to media that show how to use Oracle Solaris 11. | ||
| Oracle Solaris 11 Training Links to Oracle University training for Oracle Solaris 11. |
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| Accessing Third-Party Notice and License Information for Oracle Solaris 11 Provides important legal information and access to right-to-use statements. | Download | |
| Accessing Open Source Code Provides access to source code for discrete open source components of Oracle Solaris 11. |