Solaris Solutions for System Administrators

SANDRA HENRY-STOCKER is the author of two books on Solaris and a columnist for ITworld.com. A twenty-year Unix veteran, she currently works as a systems engineer for TeleCommunication Systems in Annapolis, Maryland, and teaches classes on Unix and Internet topics at Anne Arundel Community College. EVAN R. MARKS has more than fifteen years as a Unix system administrator in the financial and manufacturing industries. Currently, he is assistant vice president of enterprise engineering at MassMutual Financial Group and is responsible for the Unix engineering and image workflow teams.

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.