Wednesday Mar 05, 2008

Too busy to blog? I must be doing something wrong. It's been almost two months, way too long. But I finally just got knocked over by the flood of Solaris stuff coming through the pipeline. Look at all this great information.

A number of cool things came out with the latest Solaris Express Developer Edition (1/08).

There is a new printing guide covering important new features in Solaris printing:

Support for Automatic Printer Discovery and Configuration in the GNOME Desktop Environment

Changed Privilege Requirements for Using Solaris Print Commands

PPD File Management Utility for administering PostScriptTM Printer Description (PPD) files that are used with the Solaris print subsystem

Microsoft interoperability: Solaris now supports the CIFS service and has a new guide devoted to interoperability with Microsoft.

A Solaris server can now be an active participant in a Windows active directory domain and provide ubiquitous, cross-protocol file sharing through CIFS and NFS to clients in their native dialect.

Solaris now includes Sun xVM Hypervisor, a new virtualization feature based on an open source project, Xen. See Part IV in the newly retitled System Administration Guide: Virtualization Using the Solaris Operating System

The Solaris Trusted Extensions Administrator's Procedures contains the following new procedures and examples:

Add Trusted Extensions labels to a Solaris system by enabling the labeld service, then rebooting.

Add a ZFS dataset to a labeled zone.

Every labeled zone can have its own nscd daemon.

NFSv3 recognizes multilevel mounts.

The Domain of Interpretation (DOI) is configurable.

In this task, there's an example: Creating a Security Template With a Different DOI Value

BigAdmin has a host of new articles, many submitted by the community of Solaris system administrators. These articles augment Sun's customer documentation or covers topics that aren't covered in quite this way in the documentation. All are worth reading.

Guidelines for Using Solaris Live Upgrade With Solaris Zones

Volume Management Within Solaris Zones

Impact of Swap Space on System Performance for the Solaris 9 and 10 OS

Tweak to XPerts transcript on Patching

Script for Checking Used Space in File Systems in the Solaris OS

Updates: Scripts for Automating System Checks

From another source, here are three tutorials on Solaris security features:

Auditing

BART

RBAC and Privileges

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