How To Wish List

This table lists some desirable How To procedures that have not yet been produced. I've included some background on the user role and note the nature of the task as it is currently understood.

User Role	How To Task	Status (Open, In progress, Done)	Assigned To	Notes/Comments
Server Administration
	Set up a router, NAT, and proxies	Open
	Authenticate OpenSolaris users against MS Active Directory	Open		Emphasis on interoperability
Network Administration
	Create virtual NICs	Done		See How to Create Virtual Network Interface Cards
	Configure network to throttle traffic based on bandwidth	Done		See How to Manage Bandwidth Use in the Network
Security Administration
	Enable services in conjunction with OpenSolaris Secure By Default	Open
	Use OS logging to assess vulnerabilities
	Implement mandatory access Control using OpenSolaris	Open		Are there OpenSolaris specifics that need to be addressed? Yes. TX is not in OpenSolaris, so existing docs may not be applicable.
	Set up identity management	Open
	Use OS logging to assess vulnerabilities	Open		Need to refine task definition.
	Set up firewall	Done		See How to Configure a Host-Based Firewall
Mail Management
	Configure spamassassin	Open		Access to pkg. and installing might require using the old SVr4 pkgs., assuming the sw is downloadable from someplace.
	Configure mail server / sendmail	Done		See How to Automatically Rebuild a sendmail Configuration File
Web Server Management
	Set up Apache/MySQL/App server from IPS repository	Open		Should there be more focus on App server = 1) Tomcat 2) PHP 3) Glassfish 4) WebSphere 5) WebLogic?
	How to configure apache to understand .p5i MIME association	Open		See How to Configure Your Apache Server for p5i WebInstall
Virtualization
	Using xVM hypervisor to consolidate servers/services on OpenSolaris	In Progress	Penny Cotton
	Isolating workloads using containers in OpenSolaris	Done		See Isolating Your Development Work
	Set up LDoms	Open		Currents docs need to be revised. Will need to refer to getting the pkg from Sun and using SVr4 pkgs, since the pkg. is not in a repo.
	Using xVM Live Migration to balance workloads across OpenSolaris servers	Done		See How to Use OpenSolaris xVM Live Migration to Balance Workloads Across Servers
File System Management
	Set up ZFS to work with Oracle	Open
	Set up ZFS to work with PostgreSQL	Open
	Set up / manage / work with other file systems (e.g., UFS, NTFS, EXT2,3, FAT	Done		See How to Access Files From Other File Systems
	Set up ZFS to work with MySQL	Done		See How to Configure MySQL with ZFS
	Set up Samba	Done		See How to Set Up Samba in the OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release
	Manage ZFS snapshots	Done		See How to Remove an Automatic ZFS Snapshot
Storage Management
	Set up OpenSolaris Network-Attached Storage (NAS)	Open
	Set up regular backup	Open
	Set up OpenSolaris Network-Attached Storage (NAS)	Open		Special instructions required for OpenSolaris?
User Management
	Set up new usera with roles (RBAC)	Open		Are there OpenSolaris specifics that need to be addressed? Yes. Procedures to be rewritten to accommodate changes to user initalization files when accounts are created, other.
Print Management
	Set and manage print queues	Open		Current docs/procedures should be updated with CUPS How Tos.
Package Management
	Set up access to new repositories in Package Manager	Done		See How to Browse the Support and Extra Repositories
	Access the support and extra repositories	Done		See How To Add IPS Repositories