Oracle Solaris 11 : first look : a sneak peek at all the important new features and functionality of Oracle Solaris 11 / Philip P. Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Philip P.

Series:

Professional expertise distilled

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oracle (Computer file).

Solaris (Computer file).

Database management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Birmingham : Packt Pub., 2013.

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Brown Philip P. : Philip P. Brown was introduced to computers at the early age of 10, by a Science teacher at St. Edmund's College, Ware, UK. He was awestruck by the phenomenal power of the ZX81's 3 MHz, Z80 CPU, and 1 K of RAM, showcasing the glory of 64 x 48 monochrome block graphics! The impressionable lad promptly went out and spent his life savings to acquire one of his very own, and then spent many hours keying in small BASIC programs such as "Ark Royal", a game where you land a block pretending to be an aircraft, on a bunch of lower blocks pretending to be an aircraft carrier. Heady stuff! When birthday money allowed expanding the ZX81 to an unbelievable 16 K of RAM, he also felt the need to acquire a patch cable to allow him to actually save programs to audio cassettes. Once this was deployed to the family cassette recorder, he was not seen or heard from for many months that followed. Phil's first exposure to Sun Microsystems was at U. C. Berkeley in 1989, as part of standard computer science classwork. Students were expected to do their classwork on diskless Sun 3/50 workstations running SunOS 4. 1. 1. During this time, he wrote his first serious freeware program, "kdrill", which at one time was part of the official X11 distribution, and remains in some Linux distros to this day. He eventually acquired a Sun workstation for personal use (with a disk and quarter-inch tape drive) and continued his home explorations, eventually transitioning from SunOS to Solaris, around Solaris 2. 5. 1. The principles of the original, pre-GPL freeware licenses prevalent in 1989 inspired Phil the most. Led by their example, he has contributed to an assortment of free software projects along the way. A little-known fact is that he is responsible for "MesaGL" morphing into the modern GLX/OpenGL implementation it is known for today. At the time, MesaGL was primarily an OpenGL workalike with a separate, non-X11 API, as author Brian Paul did not believe that it could function in a speed-effective way. In 2003, Phil wrote the first GLX integration proof-of-concept code, which convinced Brian to eventually commit to true GLX extension support. In 2002, Phil created pkg-get, inspired by Debian's apt-get utility, and started off CSW packaging. This, at last, brought the era of network-installed packages to Solaris. All major public Solaris package repositories prior to Solaris 11 still use pkg-get format catalogs for their software. In reality, Phil also had an impact on the existence of Solaris itself. In 2002, Sun Microsystems was on the road to canceling Solaris x86 as a product line. The community was outraged, and a vote in the old "solarisonintel" Yahoo! group resulted in six community representatives making the case for x86 to Sun. Phil was one of those six who eventually flew to Sun HQ to meet the head honchos and banish the forces of evil for a while. Phil's current hobbies include writing (both articles and code), riding motorcycles, reading historical fiction, and keeping his children amused. The Solaris-specific part of his website is http: //www. bolthole. com/solaris. Most of his writing until this point has been done online, for free. His website has a particular wealth of Solaris information, and includes a mix of script writing, driver code, and Solaris sysadmin resources. As far as books go, he was only a prepublication reviewer for Solaris Systems Programming, Rich Teer. However, the first time any of his articles got published was in Rainbow magazine (a publication for the Tandy Color Computer) on page 138 of the May 1989 issue, under a column named Tools for Programming BASIC09 (http: //ia700809. us. archive. org/26/items/rainbowmagazine-1989-05/The_Rainbow_Magazine_05_1989_text. pdf).

Summary:

This book is written in simple, easy-to-understand format with lots of screenshots and step-by-step explanations. If you are a Solaris administrator looking for a step-by-step guide to understand the new features and functionality of Oracle Solaris 11, then this is the guide for you. Working knowledge of Solaris is required.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: IPS - The Image Packaging System; The brave new world of IPS; Repositories/repos; Repository URIs, aka origins; Package naming schemes; Understanding the quirks of pkg name references; Understanding pkg FMRI version fields; Overview of package and patch installation; The traditional methods; New Solaris 11 patch and package installation methods; Practical examples of pkg command usage; Automatic package dependency use; Installation dry run; Finding packages that you want

Searching by filename (pkg search)Searching by package names (pkg search); Searching by package names (pkg list); Listing files in a package; Searching for installation groups; Less-used pkg commands; Dealing with repositories; Creating your own IPS repository and packages; Creating a local repo; Creating a package; Uploading packages to the repository; Configuring machines to use your local repository; Package updates and patching; Summary; Chapter 2: Solaris 11 Installation Methods; It's the Oracle of install systems!; Default passwords; Installation from CD-ROM; The x86 LiveCD install

Choosing Text Install image or Automated Install imageManually invoking the install programs; Text Install image; Automated Install image; Overview of how AI install works; AI installer client-side services; Manifest-locator service; Auto-installer service; AI installer server-side services; Network bootstrap process details; SPARC, wanboot, and DNS; PXE boot and x86; Setting up a local install server with installadm; Side effects of installadm create-service; Installadm, manifests, and profiles; Viewing existing manifests and profiles; Configuring a manifest; Dynamically generated manifests

Configuring a profileTemplates for profiles; Client registration via installadm create-client; Manifests and profiles for zones; Sharing wanboot with Solaris 10 clients; Common traps and pitfalls; Solaris 11 release version versus support version; Summary; Chapter 3: Sysadmin Configuration Differences; Welcome to the new normal; Host identity: the sysconfig command; sysconfig configure; sysconfig unconfigure; sysconfig create-profile; Driver configuration: /etc/driver/drv; Network address configuration: ipadm and dladm; IP configuration; IP interface objects; IP interface tunables

IP and TCP tunablesNetwork layer 2 device configuration; Wireless configuration: Stick to the GUI if you can; Miscellaneous differences in system-level configuration; Name service related; Time zone and language settings; Nodename; Summary; Chapter 4: Networking Nuts and Bolts; Networking re-architected; Kernel redesign; Orientation to new Solaris 11 networking; Interface naming and IP labels; Simple static IP example; Network infrastructure impact on zones; NWAM - NetWork AutoMagic; NWAM pitfalls; Sneaking around NWAM with VNICs; Using NWAM via GUI; IPMP - IP multipathing; Setting up IPMP

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Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781849688314

1849688311

9781299198500

1299198503

OCLC:

828180985