Front cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Overview -- 1.1 Solaris and AIX: A quick feature summary -- 1.1.1 Overview of features for Solaris 7 and Solaris 8 -- 1.1.2 Overview of features of AIX Version 4.3 and AIX 5L Version 5.1 -- 1.2 Systems administration overview -- 1.2.1 System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) -- 1.2.2 Web-based System Manager -- 1.3 Introduction to pSeries (and RS/6000) architectures -- 1.3.1 POWER2 Super Chip -- 1.3.2 POWER3 -- 1.3.3 POWER3 II chip -- 1.3.4 PowerPC -- 1.3.5 RS64 processor family -- 1.3.6 POWER4 -- Chapter 2. Software packaging -- 2.1 Overview -- 2.2 Software packaging in Solaris 8 -- 2.3 Software packaging in AIX 5L -- Chapter 3. Installing and upgrading tasks -- 3.1 Hardware requirements -- 3.1.1 Supported platforms for Solaris 8 -- 3.1.2 Supported platforms for AIX 5L Version 5.1 -- 3.2 Software terminology in AIX 5L -- 3.3 Installation methods -- 3.4 AIX installation process from product CD-ROM -- 3.5 Option 1 of the Installation and Maintenance menu -- 3.5.1 Installation disks -- 3.6 Option 2 of the Installation and Maintenance menu -- 3.7 Option 3 of the Installation and Maintenance menu -- 3.8 Begin installation -- 3.9 Installation flow chart -- 3.10 Configuration Assistant menu -- 3.11 Verifying correct installation -- 3.12 Maintenance updates and patching -- 3.12.1 Obtaining maintenance levels -- 3.12.2 Installing maintenance levels and fixes -- 3.12.3 Removing a fix -- 3.13 Installing and removing additional software -- 3.13.1 Installing software under Solaris 8 -- 3.13.2 Removing software under Solaris 8 -- 3.13.3 Software states under AIX 5L -- 3.13.4 Installing software under AIX 5L -- 3.13.5 Listing installed software -- 3.13.6 Software maintenance -- 3.14 Install OS on another disk.

3.14.1 Benefits of alternate disk installation -- 3.14.2 System requirements -- 3.14.3 Alternate disk rootvg cloning -- 3.14.4 Alternate mksysb install -- 3.15 JumpStart -- 3.15.1 Installing the boot server -- 3.15.2 Install server on same subnet as client -- 3.15.3 Install server on different subnet than client -- 3.15.4 Boot install clients -- 3.16 Network Installation Management (NIM) -- 3.16.1 NIM environments -- 3.16.2 NIM setup -- 3.16.3 Booting a machine over the network -- 3.17 Quick reference -- Chapter 4. System startup and shutdown -- 4.1 The system startup process -- 4.1.1 Useful commands -- 4.2 The /etc/inittab file -- 4.3 System shutdown -- 4.4 Manage the system environment -- 4.5 Quick reference -- Chapter 5. Device management -- 5.1 Overview -- 5.2 Device management in Solaris 8 -- 5.2.1 Listing device configuration -- 5.2.2 Managing device drivers -- 5.2.3 Configuring a device -- 5.2.4 Adding a new device to a SCSI bus -- 5.2.5 Remove a SCSI device -- 5.3 Device management in AIX 5L Version 5.1 -- 5.3.1 Listing devices -- 5.3.2 Adding devices -- 5.3.3 Removing a device -- 5.3.4 Changing a device -- 5.4 Quick reference -- Chapter 6. Logical Volume Manager and disk management -- 6.1 Logical volume management overview -- 6.2 Introducing the logical volume solutions -- 6.2.1 Solaris Solstice DiskSuite: Introduction -- 6.2.2 VERITAS Volume Manager: Introduction -- 6.2.3 AIX 5L Version 5.1 LVM: Introduction -- 6.3 Working with logical volume manager -- 6.3.1 Volume groups -- 6.3.2 Working with logical volumes -- 6.3.3 Working with physical disks -- 6.3.4 Additional features: Hotspare disks -- 6.4 Quick reference -- Chapter 7. File system management -- 7.1 Overview -- 7.1.1 Solaris file systems types and commands -- 7.1.2 AIX file systems types and commands -- 7.2 Formatting and partitioning a disk (Solaris only).

7.3 Creating a file system -- 7.4 Mounting and unmounting a file system -- 7.5 Checking file system consistency -- 7.6 Changing file system attributes -- 7.7 Removing a file system -- 7.8 Displaying a file system information -- 7.8.1 Displaying defined file systems -- 7.8.2 Displaying the file systems mount table -- 7.8.3 Displaying the available file system space -- 7.9 Back up and restore file systems -- 7.10 File system logging -- 7.11 Compression and defragmentation (AIX only) -- 7.11.1 Compressed journaled file system -- 7.11.2 Defragmentation -- 7.12 Paging space management -- 7.12.1 Monitoring paging space resources -- 7.12.2 Adding and activating a paging space -- 7.12.3 Changing attributes of a paging space (AIX only) -- 7.12.4 Removing a paging space -- 7.13 Quick reference -- Chapter 8. Backup and restore -- 8.1 Overview -- 8.2 Backing up files and file systems -- 8.2.1 The ufsdump and backup commands -- 8.2.2 Backing up files and directories -- 8.2.3 Backing up file systems -- 8.3 Restoring files and file systems -- 8.4 Backing up volume groups -- 8.5 Creating a bootable system image -- 8.5.1 Creating system image backups on CD-ROM -- 8.5.2 Restoring the system image -- 8.6 Other UNIX backup commands -- 8.6.1 tar command -- 8.6.2 cpio command -- 8.6.3 dd command -- 8.7 Quick reference -- Chapter 9. Network management -- 9.1 Overview -- 9.1.1 TCP/IP V6 -- 9.2 Configuring network interface -- 9.2.1 The ifconfig command -- 9.3 Configuring TCP/IP -- 9.4 TCP/IP daemons -- 9.4.1 Stopping and restarting TCP/IP daemons -- 9.5 Network File System (NFS) -- 9.5.1 Configuring NFS in Solaris -- 9.5.2 Configuring NFS in AIX 5L -- 9.6 DNS -- 9.6.1 Configuration of DNS -- 9.6.2 Configuring master server -- 9.6.3 Configuring the slave name server -- 9.6.4 Configuring DNS clients -- 9.6.5 nslookup command -- 9.6.6 Name resolution order.

9.7 Network Information Service (NIS) -- 9.7.1 Configuring NIS -- 9.7.2 Configuring NIS master server -- 9.7.3 Configuring NIS client -- 9.8 Quick reference -- Chapter 10. User management -- 10.1 Overview -- 10.2 Adding users -- 10.3 Removing users -- 10.4 Displaying currently logged users -- 10.5 Changing users, passwords, and other attributes -- 10.5.1 Changing a user's password -- 10.5.2 Disabling a user account -- 10.5.3 Modifying a user account -- 10.6 Customizing a user's work environment -- 10.6.1 /etc/security/environ -- 10.6.2 /etc/environment -- 10.6.3 /etc/profile and HOME/.profile -- 10.7 Password files -- 10.8 Administering groups -- 10.8.1 Adding a group -- 10.8.2 Modifying an existing group -- 10.8.3 Deleting a group -- 10.9 Checking passwords and group definitions consistency -- 10.10 Defining system resources limits for users -- 10.11 Quick reference -- Chapter 11. Process management -- 11.1 Overview of process management related commands and tools -- 11.2 Listing information about processes -- 11.3 Sending signals to processes -- 11.3.1 Killing a process -- 11.4 Changing the priority of a process -- 11.5 Working with jobs -- 11.5.1 Foreground and background processes -- 11.5.2 Daemons -- 11.5.3 Zombie process -- 11.5.4 Starting and stopping a process -- 11.5.5 Scheduling a process for later operation (the at command) -- 11.5.6 Listing all the scheduled processes (at or atq commands) -- 11.5.7 Removing a process from the schedule (the at command) -- 11.6 Binding or unbinding a process -- 11.7 Quick reference -- Chapter 12. Printer management -- 12.1 Printing overview -- 12.2 AIX print subsystem vs. System V print subsystem -- 12.2.1 Switching between the two AIX 5L print subsystems -- 12.3 Print queue administration -- 12.3.1 Adding a local print queue -- 12.3.2 Displaying a queue configuration information -- 12.3.3 Deleting a queue.

12.3.4 Enabling and disabling a queue -- 12.3.5 Cancelling print jobs -- 12.4 Remote printing -- 12.4.1 Setting the system up as a print server -- 12.4.2 Adding a remote host-attached printer -- 12.5 Printing job management -- 12.5.1 Submitting printing jobs -- 12.5.2 Checking status -- 12.5.3 Print queue status -- 12.5.4 Cancelling a printing job -- 12.5.5 Prioritizing a printing job -- 12.5.6 Holding and releasing a printing job -- 12.5.7 Moving a job between queues -- 12.6 Printer pooling -- 12.7 Quick reference -- Chapter 13. Security -- 13.1 Overview -- 13.2 Hardware security -- 13.2.1 Sun SPARC hardware security features -- 13.2.2 IBM ^ pSeries (RS/6000) hardware security features -- 13.3 Securing Solaris and AIX platforms -- 13.3.1 Securing a Solaris platform -- 13.3.2 Securing the AIX platform -- 13.4 Trusted Computing Base (TCB) -- 13.4.1 Checking the Trusted Computing Base -- 13.4.2 Using the tcbck command -- 13.4.3 Configuring the tcbck program -- 13.4.4 Understanding the report -- Chapter 14. Performance management -- 14.1 Overview -- 14.2 CPU concepts and performance analysis -- 14.2.1 The lifetime of a process -- 14.2.2 The process queues -- 14.2.3 CPU timeslice and process priority -- 14.2.4 CPU monitoring using sar -- 14.3 Memory concepts and performance analysis -- 14.3.1 The AIX Virtual Memory Manager -- 14.3.2 The page stealer -- 14.3.3 Memory monitoring: vmstat -- 14.3.4 Advanced memory tools: svmon -- 14.3.5 Paging space -- 14.4 I/O concepts and performance analysis -- 14.5 Disk and LVM monitoring: iostat -- 14.5.1 Conclusions for iostat -- 14.6 Advanced tools: filemon -- 14.7 Network concepts and performance analysis -- 14.7.1 Network monitoring: netstat -- 14.7.2 Network tuning techniques and commands -- 14.8 Introduction to workload management -- 14.9 Quick reference -- Chapter 15. Troubleshooting -- 15.1 Overview.

15.2 Error logging.