Here is a list of the topics that are covered by the volumes of the System Administration Guides.
Book Title |
Topics |
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System Administration Guide: Basic Administration |
User accounts and groups, server and client support, shutting down and booting a system, managing services, and managing software (packages and patches) |
System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration |
Printing services, terminals and modems, system resources (disk quotas, accounting, and crontabs), system processes, and troubleshooting Solaris software problems |
System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems |
Removable media, disks and devices, file systems, and backing up and restoring data |
System Administration Guide: IP Services |
TCP/IP network administration, IPv4 and IPv6 address administration, DHCP, IPsec, IKE, IP filter, Mobile IP, IP network multipathing (IPMP), and IPQoS |
System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (DNS, NIS, and LDAP) |
DNS, NIS, and LDAP naming and directory services, including transitioning from NIS to LDAP and transitioning from NIS+ to LDAP |
System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (NIS+) |
NIS+ naming and directory services |
System Administration Guide: Network Services |
Web cache servers, time-related services, network file systems (NFS and Autofs), mail, SLP, and PPP |
System Administration Guide: Security Services |
Auditing, device management, file security, BART, Kerberos services, PAM, Solaris cryptographic framework, privileges, RBAC, SASL, and Solaris Secure Shell |
System Administration Guide: Solaris Containers-Resource Management and Solaris Zones |
Resource management topics projects and tasks, extended accounting, resource controls, fair share scheduler (FSS), physical memory control using the resource capping daemon (rcapd), and resource pools; virtualization using Solaris Zones software partitioning technology |
Solaris ZFS Administration Guide |
ZFS storage pool and file system creation and management, snapshots, clones, backups, using access control lists (ACLs) to protect ZFS files, using ZFS on a Solaris system with zones installed, emulated volumes, and troubleshooting and data recovery |