Re: [MLUG] Solaris question

[Scott McCool <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

I found Sun's own system administration handbooks to be pretty handy.  I
don't remember the titles, but they were from Sun Press and there was an
introductory and advanced guide.  A fairly good mix of best admin
practices and sun peculiarities.

Most of what you know about linux administration will translate.
Definitely install the GNU stuff; befriend sunfreeware.com (they have
nearly everything you want in a sun package).

I got gnome running on one of our sun workstations once without too much
trouble -- I haven't used Solaris 9 yet but supposedly Gnome was going to
be the default.

Sun's built in software raid stuff is decent, though I never tried to
manage it through SMC (I barely used SMC at all).  Read the guides on
docs.sun.com for more then you'd ever want to know about the packages.  We
pretty quickly got a nice T3 and some A1000's, so I was able to get away
from software raid altogether, but you may not be as lucky (:

Hmmm...other tips.  Keep one of those damn keys in a safe place if you're
using one of the servers that requires it.  I really had very few problems
that weren't user-induced, and once I convinced management that the devs
didn't need root on the boxes most of those went away.  The hardware is
awesome, and the only failures I saw (failed disks in raid arrays) were
taken care of immediately; I'd assume Oracle has support contracts with
sun.

Let me know if you have specific questions, I just recently left my job
doing Sun administration, but am trying to keep current with a solaris x86
workstation and the ExamCram book.


-Scott



On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Jason McIntosh wrote:

> This is a generic question with regards to Solaris sysadminning.  Does
> anyone have any books to recommend on administration of a Solaris system?
> Particularly for a user coming from a Linux background?
> Also, I'm open to any basic apps to look for.  I've already found the System
> Management Console, but other suggested apps are welcome.  Further,
> comparisons of Linux to Solaris would be appreciated.  I.E. Instead of
> looking at /etc/fstab look at /etc/vfstab.
> 
> Anyways, I'm getting the feeling I'm going to be administering a nice new
> Sun server for Oracle, and I need to know a bit about what I'm doing ;)
> Currently I'm using standard commandline tools, but if Sun has a preferred
> set of methods to do things, I'd really like to know what they are.
> 
> The SMC I've found to be rather clodgy.  I.E. I have a software raid5
> partition on /dev/md/dsk/d9 but I had to mount it by hand - I couldnąt mount
> it through the SMC.  I don't know if there are other tools I need to
> install, configure, modules/snapins to install, etc.  Particularly, I'd like
> to get gnome, openssh, and other common gnu utils installed, but don't know
> if there is an easy way to accomplish this.
> 
> Thanks!
> Jason McIntosh
> 
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