Solaris Solutions for System Administrators

SANDRA HENRY-STOCKER is the author of Solaris 2.x: System Administrator's Guide and wrote a column on systems administration for SunExpert magazine (now Workstation/Server Expert) for eight years. She was on the Board of Directors of the Sun User Group (serving as secretary) for six years and has been administering Sun systems for fifteen years. She also speaks at conferences and teaches classes on Unix systems administration and network security. EVAN R. MARKS was on the Board of Directors for the Sun User Group for three years and served as Vice President for two. He has over ten years' experience in systems administration in manufacturing, electric utility, financial services.

SETTING UP YOUR SOLARIS INFRASTRUCTURE; Making Smart Decisions about File Systems; Planning Backups and Restores; Booting and Hardware Diagnostics; Configuring Run States; Installing and Patching Your Solaris System; Exploiting JumpStart; Setting Up Name Services; Network Information Services: NIS+ and NIS; MANAGING YOUR SYSTEMS; Monitoring Your Environment; Understanding File Systems So That's What Those Are!; Automating Everything ... Well, Almost!; Keeping Your Solaris Systems Secure; Implementing High Availability: Eliminating Single Points of Failure; LOOKING AFTER YOUR HARDWARE; Maintaining Your Sun Hardware; Peripheral Vision: Understanding and Configuring Other Hardware; The E10000 (Starfire) Not Just a Big Unix Box!; SURVIVING IN THE REAL WORLD; Running an Internet Site; Coexisting with the Evil Empire; Appendices; Glossary; Bibliography and Recommended Reading; Index.