... 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|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* | | | | | |
||Completed How To Tasks||Published||When||
|Set up / manage / work with other file systems (e.g., UFS, NTFS, EXT2,3, FAT | [How to Access Files From Other File Systems] | 2009.06 |
|Set up ZFS to work with MySQL |[How to Configure MySQL with ZFS] | 2009.06 |
|Set up Samba| [How to Set Up Samba in the OpenSolaris 2009.06 Release ] | 2009.06 |
|Manage ZFS snapshots| [How to Remove an Automatic ZFS Snapshot] | 2009.06 | |