Hi all, i would like to know if there is some command line tool for system administration on sun solaris say for creating usersgroups, mounting etc. I was able to successfully install solaris 8 on my sparcstation 10 using my red hat 7. Sun cluster system administration guide for solaris os may 2007, revision a. Chapter 11 nfs ibm redbooks ibm eserver certification study guide pseries aix system administration. Solaris admin 210 solaris admin interview questions and 557 answers by expert members with experience in solaris admin subject. Dns domain name system configuration in solaris 10. Basic operations for oracle solaris 11 administration. X system administration sa271, plus six months of on thejob experience, or two years of solaris 2.
Dec 31, 2005 i also bought the book solaris 10 system administration exam prep 2 by bill calkins. Fujitsu m10sparc m10 system operation and administration guide 12. Chapter 2 understanding solaris user account management 9 figure 22 special file access window user account identi. It prevents the creation of files larger then 2 gb. Aabbcc123 thenamesofcommands,files,anddirectories, andonscreencomputeroutput edityour. Sun r certified system administrator for solaris tm 10. Those are sun solaris system administrator certification paper 1, 2, and 3 pdf s.
Users login shell the users work environment is set up by the initialization files that are defined by the users login shell. Files with an advisory locks are available to multiple users and applications. Files with advisory locks are included in the backups by default. Dtrace system administrators, integrators, and devel opers can use the dynamic instrumentation and tracing capabilities in the solaris os to see whats really going on in the system. Solaris is a nonfree unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Since that book is recommended by several sun employees involved in setting the exam, i can only assume the level is about right, which means this book is far too basic. We are using quite old solaris app and would like to generate files instead of. Sun help extensive sun related news, info, bookmarks, etc. As you can see, configuring the basic network settings in a solaris 11 system is clean and easy. But i do have cdrw drive on my linux machine and a network to connect them together. Solaris 10s resource management and shell limitulimit. Oracle certified professional ocp oracle solaris system. I have also noticed that etcoshadow file, which is a temporary file used by passwd, passmgmt and pwconv to update the real shadow file. Prepare for the oracle certified associate oracle solaris 11 system administration exam with help from this exclusive oracle press guide.
The sun certified system administrator for solaris 9 operating system, part ii exam is geared toward those candidates with one or more years of experience working as a system administrator. Sun cluster system administration guide for solaris os. It is used to contains the list of active process in. The resolver configuration file contains information that is read by the resolver routines the first time they are invoked by a process. In solaris 9 403 the maximum file size was increased from 1 tbyte to up to 16 tbytes. Solaris 10 on 16112004 became officially solaris 10 for the x86 and sparc architecture introduced and was ready for download on january 31st, 2005.
Aix reference for sun solaris administrators september 2002 international technical support organization sg24658400. This guide was created as an overview of the linux operating system, geared toward new users as an exploration tour and getting started guide, with exercises at the end of each chapter. Oca oracle solaris 11 system administration exam guide exam. For more advanced trainees it can be a desktop reference, and a collection of the base knowledge needed to proceed with system and network administration. The file command reports on file size, file ownership, and access permissions. Your site uses suns solaris management console for system administration. Unless you are on a standalone machine, the password database is not necessarily limited to the accounts stored in the etcpasswd file. Zfs has integrated volume management, preserves the highest levels of data integrity and includes a wide variety of data services such as data compression, raid, and data encryption. Solaris 10s resource management one of the best known features in solaris is resource management. This document details some of the focus areas for security and provides suggestions to make it strong. The new administrative interface lets you easily define, store and activate ondemand multiple network configuration for your system without the need of writing and maintaing multiple copies of the old style solaris network configuration files. The file command is used to transfer files between file systems. That wont help you if the data has already been written out to disk or for tracking io.
Solaris dtrace can be safely used on production systems without modifying applications. Solaris networking solaris basic network configuration solaris comes with a bounteous supply of startup scripts. This mechanism allows controlling resource for each and every process which is big advantage in system administration. Beginners guide to solaris 11 network administration the. Solaris use etcpasswd, etcgroup and etcshadow file to store user names and password information.
Exam preparation 310200 chapter 1 managing file systems 21 chapter 2 installing the solaris 10 operating environment 171 chapter 3 perform system boot and shutdown procedures 257. Simplifies administration by using open, standardsbased solaris cryptographic and solaris key management frameworks for encryption controls access to data based on its sensitivity through solaris. Where the commands or entries for solaris 8 and solaris 10 differ, they are written down in purple for solaris 8 and green for solaris 10. This book covers information that needs to be known to the system administrator of a solaris based computer. There are other common sources for user accounts, especially nis and ldap, the reason why getent is to be preferred. The book is about the ultimate inadequacy of communication between human and nonhuman species in probing and examining the oceanic surface of the planet solaris from a hovering research station the human scientists are, in turn, being studied by the sentient planet itself, which probes for and examines the thoughts of the. Solaris 10 for solaris system administrators table of contents sysedcomputer education techniques, inc.
Now i am learning user administration under solaris. If theres a lot of io happening at the time you are looking, you might be able to catch the offending process with iotop from the dtracetoolkit. Exam preparation 310200 chapter 1 managing file systems 21 chapter 2 installing the solaris 10 operating environment 171 chapter 3 perform system boot and shutdown procedures 257 chapter 4 user and security administration 363 chapter 5 managing system processes 457 chapter 6 managing the lp print service 503 chapter 7 performing system backups and. Unable to transfer files from windows 2000 server to sun solaris dear friends, i need to transfer few files from a windows 2000 server to sun solaris system, connected in the same network. The maximum limit of open files per process can be limited by setting a hard limit andor a soft limit. Burleson, an acknowledge leader in oracle unix database administration. Solaris links this is the severwatch solaris guide. The new implementation is of a much higher quality and has expanded features over previous solaris implementations. Aix reference for sun solaris administrators ibm redbooks. Oracle solaris 11 implementation and operations guide. Despite bill calkins book being 50% more expensive, it is much better value. Solaris stashes some network configuration files in etc and some in etcinet. Apply to systems administrator, administrator, senior systems administrator and more.
The book covers a range of oracle solaris system administration topics related to managing removable media, disks and devices and file systems. The early versions of suns unix were known as sunos, which is the name used for the core operating system component of solaris. You define, specify, and create a new file system using either the newfs1m or the mkfs1m command. Oracle solaris 11 system administration bill calkins. The file command is used to search binary data streams for references to readable ascii files. Aabbcc123 thenamesofcommands, files,anddirectories, andonscreencomputeroutput edityour. Setting up the user and group on solaris on solaris systems, ibm mq requires a user id of the name mqm, with a primary group of mqm. The system displays the pico editing screen within the putty. I have a solaris 10 box that has root file system usage over 80%. Also remove related configuration files to make system easier to audit.
This copy should be done as a batch job without asking for password to be entered every time. Secure operation the leadingedge security features in oracle solaris 10 help reduce the risk of intrusions. System files used for storing user account information are. The resolver is a set of routines in the c library that provide access to the internet domain name system dns. It is primarily for when running the solaris operating system however some of the sections are equally applicable if the machine is to run linux or another unix operating system. This document describes the various methods available in solaris 10 and solaris 11 for setting the limit for. Students who can benefit from this course include system administrators who are preparing to perform essential system administration procedures in the solaris os. How to set the limit for the maximum number of open files. Page 1 solaris multigas detector operating manual manufactured by msa instrument division p. For individuals who perform essential system administration procedures on the solaris operating system and are responsible for administering a networked server running on the solaris os.
Solaris installation and administration varian nmr spectrometer systems with vnmrj software pub. Solaris network information services nis implementation. Administration series solaris 10 system administration essentials oracle solaris 11. Passing certification exam prepares students for this course. Overview of file systems oracle solaris administration. In addition, i have added an extra note about changing the nis makefile in the event that youre not going to use group passwords. Patching the solaris operating system patching solaris 8 patching solaris 9 patching solaris 10.
Topics are described for both sparc and x86 based systems, where appropriate. This book is for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris 11 release. This allows running applications on the newest hardware platforms without the expense of migrations. System default time zone and locale in solaris 11, you can change the time zone and locale in the smf service property settings. This guide details procedures that may be implemented on the following products. The newfs command does not support the virtual file system architecture. Using files in a zfs storage pool 3 encrypting zfs file systems 314.
In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features such as dtrace, zfs and time slider. An additional investment protection element is the long service life of oracle solaris 10. Solaris novel project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. Although solaris does win back users with its support for high end cad and graphics design applications.
Solaris 11 system administration bill calkins upper saddle river, nj boston indianapolis san francisco new york toronto montreal london munich paris madrid capetown sydney tokyo singapore mexico city. Storage management adding scsi host adapter x6541a into a blade 100150 adding second ide hard drive into a blade 100150 connecting to an iscsi target with openiscsi initiator using solaris disk partition examples determining disk throughput nfs. This pdf file should have a background diagonal ghost image. The directory is provided to the user to store and create files. A great deal of work has gone into improving ldap in solaris 10. Second is system is accessible over the internet to a number of persons and it has to be protected against unauthorized access using network or security loopholes. The course covers the exam objectives in enough detail for the inexperienced administrator to learn the objectives and apply the knowledge to reallife. How to configure the file system on the primary cluster for the nfs. Sun solaris server configuration system files unix. The candidate will be tested on the new features of the solaris 9 operating system solaris 9 os and on the more advanced system administration skills. Discuss each question in detail for better understanding and indepth knowledge of solaris admin. Solaris tutorial and pdf study materials for downloads.
Solaris 10 for solaris system administrators table of contents. It covers all the topics that are covered on the first sun certification exam. System administration guide basic administration oracle docs. If you set up the system to authenticate to nis, then start ldap, the system crashes. The daemon uses the map to locate a file system, which it then mounts at the point of reference within the autofs file system. The autofs file system monitors attempts to access directories within it and notifies the automountd1m daemon. Suppresses access time updates on files, except when they coincide with updates to the ctime or mtime. July 26, 2000 02142002 understanding nfs by michael lucas. In oracle solaris 11, the etcdefaultrouter file is not removed, but is deprecated. The mqm user id owns the directories and files that contain the resources associated with the product. Solaris is a 1961 polish science fiction novel by stanislaw lem. Following topics are covered in this article for securing solaris. Ocp solaris certification covers system administration skills such as configuring network interfaces, managing swap configurations, crash dumps, and core files. Solaris 10 operating system solaris 10 106 solaris 10.
This is a short paper to give you some feel for how to deal with the solaris operating system when you are faced with a fault, and need to restore the system to healthy operation quickly without resorting to pulling your cv from the bottom draw and calling the local employment agencies. Configuring and using nfs by dru lavigne dru takes us through the basics of sharing files between unix computers. Minimize boot services disable everything not absolutely needed big offenders. This article has been updated from the original, which focused on solaris 8 only, to include solaris 10specific entries. Oracle solaris containersresource management and oracle solaris zones. Often when people write a separate user guide and system administrators guide they write in an overlap so that you dont have to have both books to understand more about the interaction between a system administrator and a user. After downloading the latest version of netsnmp for solaris 10, perform the following steps to remove the old version netsnmp v 5. The hard limit can be set by the system administrator and be decreased by any user, whereas the soft limit can be set by any user, up to the hard limit. Solaris 10 system administration essentials ebooks free. File systems basic zfs administration oracle solaris zfs is the default root file system on oracle solaris 11. Sun certified system administrator solaris 9 certification. It excerpts example commands from a collection of general administration tasks in the oracle solaris 11 administrator s cheat sheet written by joerg moellenkamp, senior account architect for oracle oracle solaris 11 includes stateoftheart technologies designed to enhance ease of use and manageability.
The solaris 10 os stores user account and group entry information in the following. Prepare an oracle solaris 10 global zone for migration 450 create a solaris 10 brand zone 450. The file command attempts to classify the file type based on the file s content. Files with mandatory locks cannot be used by any other user or application other than the current user. Beginners guide to solaris 11 network administration. This command replaces the etcdefaultrouter file that is used in oracle solaris 10 to manage a system route configuration. This document describes the various methods available in solaris 10 and solaris 11 for setting the limit for the maximum number of. Solaris managing users gathering more information nixcraft. A guide for system administrators mark brown chuck davis william dy paul ionescu jeff richardson kurt taylor robbie williamson a comprehensive reference for a quick transition presents a taskbased grouping of differences between the operating system environments additional content about how to optimize linux on ibm. This course is designed to teach you how to administer a standalone sun workstation running solaris 8 or solaris 9. Reference to solaris system administration guide, vol. Students should have successfully completed solaris 2. Size on disk is a bit harder to do adhoc reporting on due to the time a scan across a file system.
Dear all, where can i get the sun solaris 10 sa 1,2, and 3 in. You may not change the files name free solaris ebook. Defends your system against attack through the secure by default networking profile, solaris ip filter firewall, and tcp wrappers. Solaris administrators quick reference the cheat sheet. It prevents the user form updating the file modification times. The following sections highlight changes in the newfs and mkfs commands newfs command. Administration guide solaris file system idataagent. Hi, i am trying to find all files ending in a particular file extension, ie all files ending with. Nfs, nis, and other rpcbased services sendmail, d, and other internet servers snmp, printer daemons, gui logins, etc. In each chapter, youll find challenging practice questions, a twominute drill, and a chapter summary to highlight what youve learned. Many are duplicated through the magic of symbolic links, with the actual files living in etcinet and the links in etc. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. I tried to find what is taking up all this space but du is not returning any big files directories on root. This article gives examples of common administrative tasks in oracle solaris 11.
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