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BigAdmin Articles and Article Recommendations
Sun’s BigAdmin site is an excellent resource for Solaris system administrators. Here are links to some recent articles, promoted on BigAdmin, that caught my attention:
- Using Kerberos to Authenticate a Solaris 10 OS LDAP Client With Microsoft Active Directory
- This document describes configuration of a Solaris client to use Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2 Enterprise Edition (Active Directory) for authentication and naming services
- Tutorial on BART in the Solaris OS
- The Tutorial on BART, the Basic Audit Reporting Tool, introduces BART and provides an example to illustrate BART’s usefulness.
- Tutorial on Solaris Auditing
- The Tutorial covers reasons to audit, basic terminology, initial configuration, verifying the configuration, managing the audit logs, and reading the logs.
- Tutorials on RBAC and Privileges
- Part 1 includes the concepts of root, roles, and privileges, and provides historical context.
- Part 2 introduces role-based access control and provides some examples of authorizations, rights profiles, and role assignment.
- Part 3 contrasts Solaris privileges with conventional UNIX systems. Also, shows privileges in use in the Solaris Management Framework (SMF).
- Part 4 explains why distributed control by several roles is superior to having superuser control the system.
- Learning To Use ZFS
- Overview of ZFS & ZFS Pool Management
- ZFS Filesystem Management, Mountpoints and Filesystem Properties
- Snapshots, Clones and ZFS Backup
- NFS and ZFS, ZFS with Zones
- Recovering a System to a Different Machine Using ufsrestore and the Solaris 9 or 10 OS
- Here’s how to recover a failed server, which runs the Solaris 9 or 10 OS for SPARC platforms and Solaris Volume Manager, to another server on a different platform.
- Talking about RAM disks in the Solaris OS
- This wiki entry describes the methods to create a ramdisk in the Solaris OS.
