Chapter 1. Solaris Management Tools (Road Map)

Table of Contents

What's New in Solaris Management Tools?
Matrix of Solaris Management Tools and Supported Releases
Feature Descriptions for Solaris Management Tools
Feature Descriptions for Solaris 9 Management Tools
Feature Descriptions for Solaris 8 Management Tools
Availability of Solaris Management Commands
Solaris System Management Commands
Solaris 8 System Management Commands
For More Information About Solaris Management Tools

What's New in Solaris Management Tools?

The following tools are new or have changed in this Solaris release.

  • Solaris Express 3/06: Sun Update Connection support for managing Solaris systems with zones installed.

    The version of the Sun Update Connection software that is available in this Solaris release supports the default patchadd behavior from a global zone on systems with one or more non-global zones installed. For more information about the Sun Update Connection suite of products, see the documentation at .

  • Solaris Express 10/05: Sun Update Connection, System Edition 1.0 Software.

    The Sun Update Connection services enable you to keep your Solaris system up to date by giving you access to all the latest fixes and features. You can choose to perform local single-system update management or remote multiple-system update management. For more information, see What's New in Software Management in the Solaris Operating System?.

    For information about installing and using the Sun Update Connection software, see the Sun Update Connection Collection at .

  • Solaris Express 10/05: Basic Registration Tool.

    To be eligible for all applicable Solaris patches and updates, you must first register your Solaris software and include an eligible service plan ID. Eligible service plans are described at .

    If you do not have a service plan, you can register your Solaris software and use Sun Update Connection product suite to manage the hardware support and security patches that are available on your system.

    Note

    Starting with the Solaris Express 3/06 release, you can use the Basic Registration Tool, Version 1.1 to create a registration profile and ID to automate your Solaris software registrations. Changes to this version of the tool include software registration user interface revisions and revised steps for registering a system.

    For information about registering your system after you install the Solaris software, see Chapter 17, Registering Your Solaris Software (Tasks).

    If you are not running at least the Solaris Express 8/06 software, see Chapter 18, Registering Your Solaris Express 3/06 or 10/05 Software (Tasks) for information about registering your system after you install the Solaris software.

  • Solaris Express 3/05: Never Print Banner option in Solaris Print Manager.

    See What’s New in Printing? in System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration for more information.

These tools are new or changed in the Solaris 10 release:

  • admintool – Starting with the Solaris 10 release, this tool is no longer available

  • Package and Patch Tool Enhancements

  • Sun Patch Manager

    Note

    Use the Sun Update Connection System Edition software to manage patches and updates on your Solaris system. The Sun Update Connection software has the same functionality as the Sun Patch Manager 2.0 tools, with the addition of some new features and enhancements. For more information, see Chapter 16, Managing Software (Overview).

  • Solaris Print Manager

For a complete listing of new Solaris features and a description of Solaris releases, see What’s New in Solaris Express .

The following table provides a brief description of each tool and where to find more information about these tools.

Table 1.1. New or Changed Solaris Management Tools in the Solaris Express Release

Solaris Administration Tool

Description

For More Information

Sun Update Connection, System Edition

  • Starting with the Solaris Express 10/05 release, you can locally manage updates on your Solaris system. In addition, you can configure an update proxy to serve updates to systems on your intranet.

  • Remotely manage updates on one or more of your Solaris systems.

See the Sun Update Connection documentation at

admintool

This tool is no longer available. Alternative tools include the following:

  • Solaris Management Console to manage users and groups

  • Solaris Product Registry to manage software

  • Solaris Print Manager to manage printers

  • Solaris Management Console to manage terminals and modems

Setting Up User Accounts (Task Map)

Managing Software With the Solaris Product Registry GUI (Task Map)

Setting Up Printing (Task Map) in System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Setting Up Terminals and Modems With Serial Ports Tool (Overview) in System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

Package and Patch Tool Enhancements

Starting with the Solaris 10 release, the package and patch tools have been enhanced. Use the pkgchk command with the P option instead of grep pattern /var/sadm/install/contents. The P option enables you to use a partial path.

Package and Patch Tool Enhancements

Chapter 23, Managing Solaris Patches by Using the patchadd Command (Tasks)

Sun Patch Manager

This tool has been replaced by the Sun Update Connection in the current Solaris release.

Sun Update Connection 1.0 Administration Guide

Sun Update Connection, System Edition 1.0 Release Notes

Solaris Print Manager

Expanded printer support in Solaris Print Manager includes the following new or modified features:

  • Solaris Express 6/05: Device URI Protocol in the Solaris printer software

  • Solaris 10 1/06: Never Print Banner option in Solaris Print Manager

  • Solaris 10: Support for raster image processor (RIP)

  • Solaris 10: Support for PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files

  • Solaris 10: New n option to the lpadmin command, which enables you to specify a PPD file when creating a new print queue or modifying an existing print queue

  • Solaris 10: The lpstat command output displays the PPD for a print queue that was creating by specifying a PPD file

What’s New in Printing? in System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration