AIX reference for Sun Solaris administrators / Arkadiusz Rybakowski ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rybakowski, Arkadiusz.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Operating systems (Computers).

Solaris (Computer file).

AIX (Computer file).

Physical Description:

xx, 532 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, Tex. : IBM Corp., 2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

Comments welcome

Chapter 1. Overview

1.1 Solaris and AIX: A quick feature summary

1.1.1 Overview of features for Solaris 7 and Solaris 8

1.1.2 Overview of features of AIX Version 4.3 and AIX 5L Version 5.1

1.2 Systems administration overview

1.2.1 System Management Interface Tool (SMIT)

1.2.2 Web-based System Manager

1.3 Introduction to pSeries (and RS/6000) architectures

1.3.1 POWER2 Super Chip

1.3.2 POWER3

1.3.3 POWER3 II chip

1.3.4 PowerPC

1.3.5 RS64 processor family

1.3.6 POWER4

Chapter 2. Software packaging

2.1 Overview

2.2 Software packaging in Solaris 8

2.3 Software packaging in AIX 5L

Chapter 3. Installing and upgrading tasks

3.1 Hardware requirements

3.1.1 Supported platforms for Solaris 8

3.1.2 Supported platforms for AIX 5L Version 5.1

3.2 Software terminology in AIX 5L

3.3 Installation methods

3.4 AIX installation process from product CD-ROM

3.5 Option 1 of the Installation and Maintenance menu

3.5.1 Installation disks

3.6 Option 2 of the Installation and Maintenance menu

3.7 Option 3 of the Installation and Maintenance menu

3.8 Begin installation

3.9 Installation flow chart

3.10 Configuration Assistant menu

3.11 Verifying correct installation

3.12 Maintenance updates and patching

3.12.1 Obtaining maintenance levels

3.12.2 Installing maintenance levels and fixes

3.12.3 Removing a fix

3.13 Installing and removing additional software

3.13.1 Installing software under Solaris 8

3.13.2 Removing software under Solaris 8

3.13.3 Software states under AIX 5L

3.13.4 Installing software under AIX 5L

3.13.5 Listing installed software

3.13.6 Software maintenance

3.14 Install OS on another disk.

3.14.1 Benefits of alternate disk installation

3.14.2 System requirements

3.14.3 Alternate disk rootvg cloning

3.14.4 Alternate mksysb install

3.15 JumpStart

3.15.1 Installing the boot server

3.15.2 Install server on same subnet as client

3.15.3 Install server on different subnet than client

3.15.4 Boot install clients

3.16 Network Installation Management (NIM)

3.16.1 NIM environments

3.16.2 NIM setup

3.16.3 Booting a machine over the network

3.17 Quick reference

Chapter 4. System startup and shutdown

4.1 The system startup process

4.1.1 Useful commands

4.2 The /etc/inittab file

4.3 System shutdown

4.4 Manage the system environment

4.5 Quick reference

Chapter 5. Device management

5.1 Overview

5.2 Device management in Solaris 8

5.2.1 Listing device configuration

5.2.2 Managing device drivers

5.2.3 Configuring a device

5.2.4 Adding a new device to a SCSI bus

5.2.5 Remove a SCSI device

5.3 Device management in AIX 5L Version 5.1

5.3.1 Listing devices

5.3.2 Adding devices

5.3.3 Removing a device

5.3.4 Changing a device

5.4 Quick reference

Chapter 6. Logical Volume Manager and disk management

6.1 Logical volume management overview

6.2 Introducing the logical volume solutions

6.2.1 Solaris Solstice DiskSuite: Introduction

6.2.2 VERITAS Volume Manager: Introduction

6.2.3 AIX 5L Version 5.1 LVM: Introduction

6.3 Working with logical volume manager

6.3.1 Volume groups

6.3.2 Working with logical volumes

6.3.3 Working with physical disks

6.3.4 Additional features: Hotspare disks

6.4 Quick reference

Chapter 7. File system management

7.1 Overview

7.1.1 Solaris file systems types and commands

7.1.2 AIX file systems types and commands

7.2 Formatting and partitioning a disk (Solaris only).

7.3 Creating a file system

7.4 Mounting and unmounting a file system

7.5 Checking file system consistency

7.6 Changing file system attributes

7.7 Removing a file system

7.8 Displaying a file system information

7.8.1 Displaying defined file systems

7.8.2 Displaying the file systems mount table

7.8.3 Displaying the available file system space

7.9 Back up and restore file systems

7.10 File system logging

7.11 Compression and defragmentation (AIX only)

7.11.1 Compressed journaled file system

7.11.2 Defragmentation

7.12 Paging space management

7.12.1 Monitoring paging space resources

7.12.2 Adding and activating a paging space

7.12.3 Changing attributes of a paging space (AIX only)

7.12.4 Removing a paging space

7.13 Quick reference

Chapter 8. Backup and restore

8.1 Overview

8.2 Backing up files and file systems

8.2.1 The ufsdump and backup commands

8.2.2 Backing up files and directories

8.2.3 Backing up file systems

8.3 Restoring files and file systems

8.4 Backing up volume groups

8.5 Creating a bootable system image

8.5.1 Creating system image backups on CD-ROM

8.5.2 Restoring the system image

8.6 Other UNIX backup commands

8.6.1 tar command

8.6.2 cpio command

8.6.3 dd command

8.7 Quick reference

Chapter 9. Network management

9.1 Overview

9.1.1 TCP/IP V6

9.2 Configuring network interface

9.2.1 The ifconfig command

9.3 Configuring TCP/IP

9.4 TCP/IP daemons

9.4.1 Stopping and restarting TCP/IP daemons

9.5 Network File System (NFS)

9.5.1 Configuring NFS in Solaris

9.5.2 Configuring NFS in AIX 5L

9.6 DNS

9.6.1 Configuration of DNS

9.6.2 Configuring master server

9.6.3 Configuring the slave name server

9.6.4 Configuring DNS clients

9.6.5 nslookup command

9.6.6 Name resolution order.

9.7 Network Information Service (NIS)

9.7.1 Configuring NIS

9.7.2 Configuring NIS master server

9.7.3 Configuring NIS client

9.8 Quick reference

Chapter 10. User management

10.1 Overview

10.2 Adding users

10.3 Removing users

10.4 Displaying currently logged users

10.5 Changing users, passwords, and other attributes

10.5.1 Changing a user's password

10.5.2 Disabling a user account

10.5.3 Modifying a user account

10.6 Customizing a user's work environment

10.6.1 /etc/security/environ

10.6.2 /etc/environment

10.6.3 /etc/profile and HOME/.profile

10.7 Password files

10.8 Administering groups

10.8.1 Adding a group

10.8.2 Modifying an existing group

10.8.3 Deleting a group

10.9 Checking passwords and group definitions consistency

10.10 Defining system resources limits for users

10.11 Quick reference

Chapter 11. Process management

11.1 Overview of process management related commands and tools

11.2 Listing information about processes

11.3 Sending signals to processes

11.3.1 Killing a process

11.4 Changing the priority of a process

11.5 Working with jobs

11.5.1 Foreground and background processes

11.5.2 Daemons

11.5.3 Zombie process

11.5.4 Starting and stopping a process

11.5.5 Scheduling a process for later operation (the at command)

11.5.6 Listing all the scheduled processes (at or atq commands)

11.5.7 Removing a process from the schedule (the at command)

11.6 Binding or unbinding a process

11.7 Quick reference

Chapter 12. Printer management

12.1 Printing overview

12.2 AIX print subsystem vs. System V print subsystem

12.2.1 Switching between the two AIX 5L print subsystems

12.3 Print queue administration

12.3.1 Adding a local print queue

12.3.2 Displaying a queue configuration information

12.3.3 Deleting a queue.

12.3.4 Enabling and disabling a queue

12.3.5 Cancelling print jobs

12.4 Remote printing

12.4.1 Setting the system up as a print server

12.4.2 Adding a remote host-attached printer

12.5 Printing job management

12.5.1 Submitting printing jobs

12.5.2 Checking status

12.5.3 Print queue status

12.5.4 Cancelling a printing job

12.5.5 Prioritizing a printing job

12.5.6 Holding and releasing a printing job

12.5.7 Moving a job between queues

12.6 Printer pooling

12.7 Quick reference

Chapter 13. Security

13.1 Overview

13.2 Hardware security

13.2.1 Sun SPARC hardware security features

13.2.2 IBM ^ pSeries (RS/6000) hardware security features

13.3 Securing Solaris and AIX platforms

13.3.1 Securing a Solaris platform

13.3.2 Securing the AIX platform

13.4 Trusted Computing Base (TCB)

13.4.1 Checking the Trusted Computing Base

13.4.2 Using the tcbck command

13.4.3 Configuring the tcbck program

13.4.4 Understanding the report

Chapter 14. Performance management

14.1 Overview

14.2 CPU concepts and performance analysis

14.2.1 The lifetime of a process

14.2.2 The process queues

14.2.3 CPU timeslice and process priority

14.2.4 CPU monitoring using sar

14.3 Memory concepts and performance analysis

14.3.1 The AIX Virtual Memory Manager

14.3.2 The page stealer

14.3.3 Memory monitoring: vmstat

14.3.4 Advanced memory tools: svmon

14.3.5 Paging space

14.4 I/O concepts and performance analysis

14.5 Disk and LVM monitoring: iostat

14.5.1 Conclusions for iostat

14.6 Advanced tools: filemon

14.7 Network concepts and performance analysis

14.7.1 Network monitoring: netstat

14.7.2 Network tuning techniques and commands

14.8 Introduction to workload management

14.9 Quick reference

Chapter 15. Troubleshooting

15.1 Overview.

15.2 Error logging.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 513-515) and index.

OCLC:

560314261