System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration

April 2012

This book is for anyone who is responsible for administering one or more systems that run the Oracle Solaris operating system (OS). The book covers a broad range of system administration topics such as managing printing services, managing terminals and modems, managing system resources (disk quotas, accounting, and crontabs), managing system processes, and troubleshooting Solaris software problems.Topics are described for both SPARC and x86 based systems, where appropriate.

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1. Managing Terminals and Modems (Overview)
- What's New in Managing Terminals and Modems?
- Terminals, Modems, Ports, and Services
- Tools for Managing Terminals and Modems
  - Serial Ports Tool
  - Overview of the Service Access Facility
2. Setting Up Terminals and Modems (Tasks)
- Setting Terminals and Modems (Task Map)
- Setting Up Terminals and Modems With Serial Ports Tool (Overview)
  - Setting Up Terminals
  - Setting Up Modems
- How to Set Up a Terminal, a Modem, and Initialize a Port (Tasks)
- Troubleshooting Terminal and Modem Problems
3. Managing Serial Ports With the Service Access Facility (Tasks)
- Managing Serial Ports (Task Map)
- Using the Service Access Facility
- Overall SAF Administration (sacadm)
  - Service Access Controller (SAC Program)
  - SAC Initialization Process
- Port Monitor Service Administration (pmadm)
- TTY Monitor and Network Listener Port Monitors
- Administering ttymon Port Monitors
- Administering ttymon services (Task Map)
- Administering ttymon Services
- Service Access Facility Administration (Reference)
4. Managing System Resources (Overview)
- What's New in Managing System Resources?
- Managing System Resources (Road Map)
5. Displaying and Changing System Information (Tasks)
- Displaying System Information (Task Map)
- Changing System Information (Task Map)
- Changing System Information
6. Managing Disk Use (Tasks)
- Managing Disk Use (Task Map)
- Displaying Information About Files and Disk Space
  - How to Display Information About Files and Disk Space
- Checking the Size of Files
- Checking the Size of Directories
  - How to Display the Size of Directories, Subdirectories, and Files
  - How to Display the User Ownership of Local UFS File Systems
- Finding and Removing Old or Inactive Files
7. Managing UFS Quotas (Tasks)
- What Are UFS Quotas?
- Using UFS Quotas
  - Setting Soft Limits and Hard Limits for UFS Quotas
  - The Difference Between Disk Block and File Limits
- Setting Up UFS Quotas
  - Guidelines for Setting Up UFS Quotas
- Setting Up UFS Quotas (Task Map)
- Maintaining UFS Quotas (Task Map)
- Checking UFS Quotas
  - How to Check for Exceeded UFS Quotas
  - How to Check UFS Quotas on a File System
- Changing and Removing UFS Quotas
8. Scheduling System Tasks (Tasks)
- Creating and Editing crontab Files (Task Map)
- Ways to Automatically Execute System Tasks
  - For Scheduling Repetitive Jobs: crontab
  - For Scheduling a Single Job: at
- Scheduling a Repetitive System Task (cron)
- Creating and Editing crontab Files
  - How to Create or Edit a crontab File
  - How to Verify That a crontab File Exists
- Displaying crontab Files
  - How to Display a crontab File
- Removing crontab Files
  - How to Remove a crontab File
- Controlling Access to the crontab Command
- Using the at Command (Task Map)
- Scheduling a Single System Task (at)
9. Managing System Accounting (Tasks)
- What's New in System Accounting
  - Oracle Solaris Process Accounting and Statistics Improvements
- What is System Accounting?
  - How System Accounting Works
  - System Accounting Components
- System Accounting (Task Map)
- Setting Up System Accounting
  - How to Set Up System Accounting
- Billing Users
  - How to Bill Users
- Maintaining Accounting Information
- Stopping and Disabling System Accounting
  - How to Temporarily Stop System Accounting
  - How to Permanently Disable System Accounting
10. System Accounting (Reference)
- runacct Script
- Daily Accounting Reports
- System Accounting Files
  - Files Produced by the runacct Script
11. Managing System Performance (Overview)
- What's New in Managing System Performance?
  - Enhanced pfiles Tool
  - CPU Performance Counters
- Where to Find System Performance Tasks
- System Performance and System Resources
- Processes and System Performance
- About Monitoring System Performance
  - Monitoring Tools
12. Managing System Processes (Tasks)
- What's New in Managing System Processes?
  - Pseudo Kernel Processes
- Managing System Processes (Task Map)
- Commands for Managing System Processes
- Managing Process Class Information (Task Map)
- Managing Process Class Information
- Troubleshooting Problems With System Processes
13. Monitoring System Performance (Tasks)
- Displaying System Performance Information (Task Map)
- Displaying Virtual Memory Statistics (vmstat)
- Displaying Disk Utilization Information (iostat)
  - How to Display Disk Utilization Information (iostat)
  - How to Display Extended Disk Statistics (iostat -xtc)
- Displaying Disk Space Statistics (df)
  - How to Display Disk Space Information (df -k)
- Monitoring System Activities (Task Map)
- Monitoring System Activities (sar)
- Collecting System Activity Data Automatically (sar)
14. Troubleshooting Software Problems (Overview)
- What's New in Troubleshooting?
- Where to Find Software Troubleshooting Tasks
- Troubleshooting a System Crash
  - What to Do If the System Crashes
  - Gathering Troubleshooting Data
- Troubleshooting a System Crash Checklist
15. Managing System Messages
- Viewing System Messages
  - How to View System Messages
- System Log Rotation
- Customizing System Message Logging
  - How to Customize System Message Logging
- Enabling Remote Console Messaging
16. Managing Core Files (Tasks)
- Managing Core Files (Task Map)
- Managing Core Files Overview
- Troubleshooting Core File Problems
- Examining Core Files
17. Managing System Crash Information (Tasks)
- What's New in Managing System Crash Information
  - Fast Crash Dump Facility
- Managing System Crash Information (Task Map)
- System Crashes (Overview)
- Managing System Crash Dump Information
18. Troubleshooting Miscellaneous Software Problems (Tasks)
- What to Do If Rebooting Fails
- What to Do If You Forgot the Root Password
- x86: What to Do If the SMF Boot Archive Service Fails During a System Reboot
- What to Do If a System Hangs
- What to Do If a File System Fills Up
  - File System Fills Up Because a Large File or Directory Was Created
  - A TMPFS File System is Full Because the System Ran Out of Memory
- What to Do If File ACLs Are Lost After Copy or Restore
- Troubleshooting Backup Problems
- Troubleshooting Common Agent Container Problems in the Oracle Solaris OS
19. Troubleshooting File Access Problems (Tasks)
- Solving Problems With Search Paths (Command not found)
  - How to Diagnose and Correct Search Path Problems
- Solving File Access Problems
  - Changing File and Group Ownerships
- Recognizing Problems With Network Access
20. Resolving UFS File System Inconsistencies (Tasks)
- fsck Error Messages
21. Troubleshooting Software Package Problems (Tasks)
- Troubleshooting Software Package Symbolic Link Problems
- Specific Software Package Installation Errors
- General Software Package Installation Problems
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