System Administration Information

Are you a system administrator working with the OpenSolaris operating system? Or, are you a desktop or laptop user who needs to do some local system setup? If so, you are in the right place! Start here to find information that will help you with a range of tasks required to get OpenSolaris working in a multi-system, heterogeneous server environment. And, if you are doing local administration on your own system, see the information in the laptop administration tabs. Tasks are grouped either by action or by topic. Don't be concerned if you see a line that says "No content found for label(s)...." Titles on this page are dynamically generated, and that message just means that there are no topics in the wiki for that category.

Server Admin by Action

Accessing

How to Access Files From Other File Systems
How to Find Available CIFS Shares
How to Find Available NFS File Systems
How to Mount a CIFS Share
How to Mount an NFS File System
How to View the List of Mounted CIFS Shares

Adding

How to Add a New PPD File With the ppdmgr Utility
How to Add a Print Client on a Print Server With Solaris LP Print Manager
How to Create a ZFS File System Snapshot
How to Set Up a Directly Attached Printer With Solaris LP Print Manager
How To Set Up a Network-Attached Printer With Solaris LP Print Manager
Installing MySQL, PostgreSQL
Installing the Web Development Stack

Changing

No content found for label(s) smallsiteadmin,changing,task.

Configuring

Configuring iSCSI Boot for x86 Systems
How to Add a Print Client on a Print Server With Solaris LP Print Manager
How to Configure an IB HCA for iSER
How to Configure an iSCSI Initiator
How to Configure an iSCSI Target for Discovery
How to Configure an SRP Initiator
How to Configure FCoE Ports
How to Configure Fibre Channel Ports
How to Configure iSCSI Target Ports
How to Create a Disk Partition SCSI Logical Unit
How to Create a File-Based SCSI Logical Unit
How to Create a Target Portal Group
How to Create a Thin-Provisioned SCSI Logical Unit
How to Create a ZFS Volume SCSI Logical Unit
How to Create SCSI Logical Units
How to Create Virtual Network Interface Cards
How to Enable the SRP Target Service
How to Enable the STMF Service
How to Make Logical Units Available for FC and FCoE
How to Make Logical Units Available for iSCSI and iSER
How to Make SCSI Logical Units Available
How to Manage Bandwidth Use in the Network
How to Manage the Automatic ZFS Snapshot Service
How To Set Up a Network-Attached Printer With Solaris LP Print Manager
How to Set Up Samba in the OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release
How to Simplify Initiator CHAP Management Using a RADIUS Server
How to Simplify Target CHAP Management Using a RADIUS Server

Creating

No content found for label(s) smallsiteadmin,creating,task.

Deleting

How to Remove Discovered iSCSI Targets
How to Unmount a CIFS Share
How to Unmount an NFS File System

Installing Multiple Servers

Migrating

How to Use OpenSolaris xVM Live Migration to Balance Workloads Across Servers
Migrating from Solaris 10 to OpenSolaris

Monitoring

How to Monitor an iSCSI Configuration
How to Monitor ZFS Disk Space

Searching

Stopping

How to Shut Down a System
How to Stop a Service or Program

Troubleshooting

How to Shut Down a System
Problems With Audio in the OpenSolaris Release
Troubleshooting Command Path Problems
Troubleshooting the OpenSolaris Release
Working With the Fault Manager

Updating

No content found for label(s) smallsiteadmin,updating,task.

Server Admin by Topic

Automated Installation

Boot Environments

CIFS File Systems Management

How to Find Available CIFS Shares
How to Mount a CIFS Share
How to Unmount a CIFS Share
How to View the List of Mounted CIFS Shares

Distribution Constructor

Fast Reboot

Facilitating a Fast Reboot by Using the uadmin Command
Fast Rebooting the Default OS Entry
Fast Rebooting to an Alternate BE in the OpenSolaris 2010.03 OS
How to Fast Reboot a System to a Specific GRUB Entry
How to Perform a Slow Reboot of a System
Support for Fast Reboot
Troubleshooting Conditions That Might Prevent Fast Reboot From Working
Using Fast Reboot

Image Packaging System

How to Browse the Support and Extra Repositories
How to Configure Your Apache Server for p5i WebInstall

Mail Configuration

No content found for label(s) smallsiteadmin,sendmail,task.
No content found for label(s) smallsiteadmin,mail,task.

MySQL

How to Configure MySQL with ZFS
Installing MySQL, PostgreSQL

Network Configuration

How to Create Virtual Network Interface Cards
How to Manage Bandwidth Use in the Network

NFS File System Management

How to Find Available NFS File Systems
How to Mount an NFS File System
How to Unmount an NFS File System

PostgreSQL

Installing MySQL, PostgreSQL

Printer Configuration

No content found for label(s) smallsiteadmin,printmanager,task.

Security

No content found for label(s) smallsiteadmin,firewall,task.
No content found for label(s) smallsiteadmin,security,task.

Service Configuration

How to Start a Service
How to Stop a Service or Program
Managing Services

Storage

Backing Up and Restoring a COMSTAR Configuration
Getting Started with COMSTAR (Task Map)
How to Configure an IB HCA for iSER
How to Configure an iSCSI Initiator
How to Configure an iSCSI Target for Discovery
How to Configure an SRP Initiator
How to Configure FCoE Ports
How to Configure Fibre Channel Ports
How to Configure iSCSI Target Ports
How to Create a Disk Partition SCSI Logical Unit
How to Create a File-Based SCSI Logical Unit
How to Create a Target Portal Group
How to Create a Thin-Provisioned SCSI Logical Unit
How to Create a ZFS Volume SCSI Logical Unit
How to Create SCSI Logical Units
How to Download and Install COMSTAR
How to Enable the SRP Target Service
How to Enable the STMF Service
How to Make Logical Units Available for FC and FCoE
How to Make Logical Units Available for iSCSI and iSER
How to Make SCSI Logical Units Available
How to Monitor an iSCSI Configuration
How to Remove Discovered iSCSI Targets
How to Simplify Initiator CHAP Management Using a RADIUS Server
How to Simplify Target CHAP Management Using a RADIUS Server

System Shutdown

How to Shut Down a System
How to Stop a Service or Program

Virtualization

How to Create Virtual Network Interface Cards
How to Use OpenSolaris xVM Live Migration to Balance Workloads Across Servers

Web Server

How to Configure Your Apache Server for p5i WebInstall
Installing the Web Development Stack

ZFS File System Management

How to Create a ZFS File System Snapshot
How to Manage the Automatic ZFS Snapshot Service
How to Monitor ZFS Disk Space
Managing ZFS File Systems

Laptop Admin by Action

Accessing

Checking the Status of Network Connections From the Desktop
How to Find Available CIFS Shares
How to Find Available NFS File Systems
How to Mount a CIFS Share
How to Mount an NFS File System
How to View the List of Mounted CIFS Shares

Adding

How to Add a New PPD File With the ppdmgr Utility
How to Add a Print Client on a Print Server With Solaris LP Print Manager
How to Create a ZFS File System Snapshot
How to Manually Configure a Printer by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager
Installing C++, Fortran Development Tools
Installing DTrace Tools
Installing GlassFish
Installing HPC Development Tools
Installing Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl
Installing MySQL, PostgreSQL
Installing NetBeans IDE and Tools
Installing the Web Development Stack

Changing

How to Change a Connection From Wired to Wireless
How to Change From One Wireless Network to Another Wireless Network
How to Connect to a Wireless Network at Startup
How to Manage a List of Favorite Wireless Networks From the Desktop
How to Manually Modify the Automatic Network Configuration Process

Configuring

How to Add a Print Client on a Print Server With Solaris LP Print Manager
How to Configure Thunderbird Account Settings
How to Create Virtual Network Interface Cards
How to Customize OpenSolaris Screen Resolution on a MacBook Pro Running Virtualbox
How to Get MP3 Files to Play with OpenSolaris
How to Manage Bandwidth Use in the Network
How to Manage the Automatic ZFS Snapshot Service
How to Manually Configure Network Settings
How to Manually Modify the Automatic Network Configuration Process
How to Set Up Auto-Discovered Printers by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager
How to Set Up Samba in the OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release
More Fast Reboot Examples
Setting Up Printers by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager

Creating

No content found for label(s) singleadmin,creating,task.

Deleting

How to Unmount a CIFS Share
How to Unmount an NFS File System

Installing

How to Run OpenSolaris in VMware Fusion for Mac
How to Run OpenSolaris in VMware Workstation
How to Upgrade from OpenSolaris 2008.05 to Later Versions in VirtualBox
Installing C++, Fortran Development Tools
Installing DTrace Tools
Installing GlassFish
Installing HPC Development Tools
Installing Java, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl
Installing MySQL, PostgreSQL
Installing NetBeans IDE and Tools
Installing the Web Development Stack

Migrating

Migrating from Solaris 10 to OpenSolaris

Monitoring

How to Monitor ZFS Disk Space

Searching

Stopping

How to Shut Down a System
How to Stop a Service or Program

Troubleshooting

Checking the Status of Network Connections From the Desktop
Debugging Early System Panics That Occur
Forcing a Fast Reboot of the System
How to Disable the Splashscreen to Debug Boot Problems
How to Shut Down a System
How to Update to 2009.06 in VirtualBox
How to Verify That the NWAM Service Is Running
Problems With Audio in the OpenSolaris Release
Troubleshooting Command Path Problems
Troubleshooting Issues With WEP Password Authentication
Troubleshooting the OpenSolaris Release
Working With the Fault Manager

Updating

How to Update from 2008.11 to 2009.06 with Update Manager
How to Update to 2009.06 in VirtualBox
How to Upgrade from OpenSolaris 2008.05 to Later Versions in VirtualBox

Laptop Admin by Topic

Boot Environments

CIFS File Systems Management

How to Find Available CIFS Shares
How to Mount a CIFS Share
How to Unmount a CIFS Share
How to View the List of Mounted CIFS Shares

Fast Reboot

Facilitating a Fast Reboot by Using the uadmin Command
Fast Rebooting the Default OS Entry
Fast Rebooting to an Alternate BE in the OpenSolaris 2010.03 OS
How to Fast Reboot a System to a Specific GRUB Entry
How to Perform a Slow Reboot of a System
More Fast Reboot Examples
Support for Fast Reboot
Troubleshooting Conditions That Might Prevent Fast Reboot From Working
Using Fast Reboot

Image Packaging System

How to Browse the Support and Extra Repositories

Mail Configuration

How to Configure Thunderbird Account Settings

MySQL

Installing MySQL, PostgreSQL

Network Configuration

How to Create Virtual Network Interface Cards
How to Manage Bandwidth Use in the Network
How to Manually Configure Network Settings
How to Manually Modify the Automatic Network Configuration Process

NFS File System Management

How to Find Available NFS File Systems
How to Mount an NFS File System
How to Unmount an NFS File System

PostgreSQL

Installing MySQL, PostgreSQL

Printer Configuration

Getting Started With OpenSolaris Print Manager
How Network Printer Discovery Works
How to Manually Configure a Printer by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager
How to Set Up Auto-Discovered Printers by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager
Setting Up Printers by Using OpenSolaris Print Manager

Security

No content found for label(s) singleadmin,firewall,task.
No content found for label(s) singleadmin,security,task.

Service Configuration

How to Start a Service
How to Stop a Service or Program
Managing Services

Storage

No content found for label(s) singleadmin,storage,task.

System Shutdown

How to Shut Down a System
How to Stop a Service or Program

Virtualization

How to Create Virtual Network Interface Cards
How to Run OpenSolaris in VMware Fusion for Mac
How to Run OpenSolaris in VMware Workstation

Web Server

Installing the Web Development Stack

ZFS File System Management

How to Create a ZFS File System Snapshot
How to Manage the Automatic ZFS Snapshot Service
How to Monitor ZFS Disk Space
How to Recover Automatic ZFS Snapshots (GNOME File Manager)
How to Remove an Automatic ZFS Snapshot
Managing ZFS File Systems
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