Solaris System Administrator's Guide - Softcover

Winsor, Janice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130277029 ISBN 13: 9780130277022

Publisher: Prentice Hall, 2000

Synopsis

For courses covering UNIX or Solaris System Administration.

A tutorial/reference for system administrators that covers the Solaris 8 features most commonly used for basic administration tasks. Contains practical references to key commands and processes with real-life examples.

About this title

From the Back Cover

The best-selling tutorial and reference for Solaris system administrators.

• The essential guide to Solaris 8 system administration!
• Covers the latest features and management tools
• Administering users, devices, systems, networks, printing, and more
• Maximizing efficiency, productivity, and system availability

Solaris System Administrator's Guide, Third Edition is the perfect quick-start tutorial for system administrators new to the Solaris Operating Environment―and the perfect fast-access reference for veteran Solaris administrators. Thoroughly updated to reflect Solaris 8's latest management tools, it covers all aspects of day-to-day administration, showing exactly how to maximize efficiency, reliability, and availability in any Solaris environment. Coverage includes:

• Basic administration: superuser status, startup/shutdown, monitoring processes, and communicating with users
• Solaris commands: user and environment information, working with files and disks, redirecting output, reading manual pages, and more
• Solaris shells: Bourne, C, Korn, Bourne-Again, TC, and Z
• Administering user accounts, file systems, and roles-including Solaris 8's new Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Administering devices and systems: Service Access Facility, configuring additional swap space, creating local e-mail aliases, and more
• Administering network services: remote administration, Solaris AdminSuiteTM 3.0 tools, NIS+, IPv6, and more

From troubleshooting file access to tracking network performance, streamlining printing to backing up file systems, this book delivers authoritative, accessible information you'll use today―and every day.

Synopsis

This is the perfect quick-start tutorial for every new Solaris sysadmin -- and the perfect fast-access reference for every Solaris administrator, no matter how experienced. Thoroughly updated to reflect Solaris 8's latest management tools, it covers all aspects of day-to-day administration, showing exactly how to maximize efficiency, reliability, and availability in any Solaris environment. Janice Winsor starts with the basics of Solaris system administration, including superuser status, startup/shutdown, monitoring processes, and communicating with users. Next, she introduces key Solaris commands for day-to-day administration, including commands for retrieving user and environment information, working with files and disks, redirecting output, and displaying man pages. Learn how to administer user accounts, file systems, and roles -- and delegate administrative responsibilities using Solaris 8's new Role Based Access Control (RBAC). Manage devices and systems; work with the Service Access Facility; and configure additional swap space without reformatting drives. Learn how to administer network and remote access services, work with NIS+ and IPv6, and more.

The book includes detailed coverage of troubleshooting file access, tracking network performance, streamlining printing, and more -- every bit of it authoritative and accessible. For all Solaris system administrators.

Edition details

• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0130277029
• ISBN 13: 9780130277022
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 512