Solaris Solutions for System Administrators, 2/e

* Teaches how to work smart and avoid the many pitfalls of managing Solaris systems
* Covers the latest release of Solaris, Solaris 9, as well as earlier versions
* Written by experts with years of Solaris experience
* Packed with practical, hands-on solutions to tough problems, showing how to avoid costly mistakes
* Tackles managing system performance; the Sun Fire line of Solaris enterprise servers; installing, configuring, and patching Solaris; and ensuring security

Table of Contents

Preface.

Acknowledgments.

About the Authors.

Introduction.

PART I: SETTING UP YOUR SOLARIS INFRASTRUCTURE.

  Chapter 1: Making Smart Decisions about File Systems.

  Chapter 2: Planning Backups and Restores.

  Chapter 3: Booting and Hardware Diagnostics.

  Chapter 4: Configuring Run States.

  Chapter 5: Installing and Patching Your Solaris System.

  Chapter 6: Exploiting JumpStart and Web Start Flash.

  Chapter 7: Setting up Name Services.

  Chapter 8: Network Information Services.

PART II: MANAGING YOUR SYSTEMS.

  Chapter 9: Monitoring Your Environment.

  Chapter 10: Managing Performance.

  Chapter 11: Volume Management.

  Chapter 12: Automating Everything . . . Well, Almost!

  Chapter 13: Keeping Your Solaris Systems Secure.

  Chapter 14: Implementing High Availability: Eliminating Single Points of Failure.

PART III: LOOKING AFTER YOUR HARDWARE.

  Chapter 15: Maintaining Your Sun Hardware.

  Chapter 16: Peripheral Vision: Understanding and Configuring Other Hardware.

  Chapter 17: The Starfire.

  Chapter 18: The Sun Fire Servers.

PART IV: SURVIVING IN THE REAL WORLD.

  Chapter 19: Running an Internet Site.

  Chapter 20: Coexisting with other Empires.

  Chapter 21: Time Management Techniques for Sysadmins.

  Glossary.

  Bibliography and Recommended Reading.

  Index.