Solaris 10 System Administration Essentials

Preface xvii About the Authors xxi Chapter 1: Installing the Solaris 10 Operating System 1 1.1 Methods to Meet Your Needs 1 1.2 The Basics of Solaris Installation 2 1.3 Solaris JumpStart Installation 13 1.4 Upgrading a Solaris System 25 1.5 Solaris Live Upgrade 26 Chapter 2: Boot, Service Management, and Shutdown 33 2.1 Boot 33 2.2 Service Management Facility 39 2.3 Shutdown 46 Chapter 3: Software Management: Packages 47 3.1 Managing Software Packages 47 3.2 What Is a Package? 47 3.3 Tools for Managing Software Packages 49 3.4 Installing or Removing a Software Package with the pkgadd or pkgrm Command 50 3.5 Using Package Commands to Manage Software Packages 51 Chapter 4: Software Management: Patches 59 4.1 Managing Software with Patches 59 4.2 What Is a Patch? 59 4.3 Patch Management Best Practices 61 4.4 Example of Using Solaris Live Upgrade to Install Patches 75 4.5 Patch Automation Tools 86 4.6 Overview of Patch Types 88 4.7 Patch README Special Instructions 93 4.8 Patch Dependencies (Interrelationships) 96 Chapter 5: Solaris File Systems 99 5.1 Solaris File System Overview 99 5.2 UFS File Systems 105 5.3 ZFS File System Administration 117 5.4 NFS File System Administration 127 5.5 Removable Media 133 5.6 Pseudo File System Administration 136 Chapter 6: Managing System Processes 141 6.1 Overview 141 6.2 Monitoring the Processes 145 6.3 Controlling the Processes 158 6.4 Process Manager 164 6.5 Scheduling Processes 170 Chapter 7: Fault Management 179 7.1 Overview 179 7.2 Fault Notification 181 7.3 Displaying Faults 182 7.4 Repairing Faults 184 7.5 Managing Fault Management Log Files 184 7.6 Managing fmd and fmd Modules 188 7.7 Fault Management Directories 193 7.8 Solaris Fault Management Downloadable Resources 193 Chapter 8: Managing Disks 197 8.1 Hard Disk Drive 197 8.2 Disk Terminology 199 8.3 Disk Device Naming Conventions 200 8.4 Overview of Disk Management 202 8.5 Disk Management Procedures 217 Chapter 9: Managing Devices 235 9.1 Solaris Device Driver

This book is the work of the engineers, architects, and writers at Sun Microsystems who conceptualized the services, wrote the procedures, and coded the rich set of Solaris features. Together, these authors bring a vast range of industry and academic experience to the business of creating and deploying operating systems. Authors include Stephanie Brucker, David Bustos, Raoul Carag, Penelope Cotten, Scott Davenport, Alta Elstad, Eric Erickson, Juanita Heieck, Puneet Jain, Narendra Kumar, James Liu, Alan Maguire, Cathleen Reiher, Vidya Sakar, Michael Schuster, Lynne Thompson, and Sowmini Varadhan.