This book is for anyone who is responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris operating system os. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. You will be working on oracle solaris 11 virtual machines using oracle vm virtualbox. Maybe i missed the moment when it asked me about the installed software, but now i have. Creating and managing user accounts, groups, and roles. Oracle solaris 11 is known to work on a number of other thirdparty virtualization offerings from vendors including vmware, microsoft, and red hat. The following three group packages are used by the oracle solaris 11 installers. A be is a bootable instance of an oracle solaris 11 operating system plus any other application software packages installed into that image. Packages specified as group dependencies in a group package do not specify the package version. I and many users of this group are indebted to you. For information about fields in the fmri, see fault management resource identifiers. The following four group packages are used by the oracle solaris 11. Customer would like to add one or more arservers into an existing server group which already has solaris 11.
Ips concepts adding and updating oracle solaris 11. Only the solarisminimalserver and solarislargeserver groups. The book covers a broad range of solaris system administration topics such as managing user accounts, diskless clients, booting a system, using the service management facility smf, and managing software and patches. A package group is a collection of packages corresponding to a software group of solaris 10. Since auditing is already enabled by default in solaris 11, if you only want to add the commands executed then run. When compared with the ipmp configuration in oracle solaris 10, oracle solaris 11 groups the ip interfaces into a virtual ip interface for example, ipmp0.
Ips installs and updates software packages from locally connected or remote repositories, automatically checking and resolving software dependencies. However in some cases waiting for 5 minutes might not be desirable. Listing all installable packages in a group package adding and. A package manifest describes package actions in a defined format of keyvalue pairs and possibly a data payload.
Oracle solaris 10 installation methods provide software package clusters that install a. Get xterm on solaris 11 without installing the whole of the solaris desktop group. Solaris 11 ntp multicast client no association ids returned. How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 by admin when you install the new solaris 11 x86 box in your production environment or in lab environment under vmware workstation, you would not find the gui desktop as you would have got for connecting solaris 10 x86 server. Solaris 11 reduce package group from largeserver to minimal. There is currently no gui tool for performing these tasks. The following command shows that oracle solaris 11. The oracle solaris 11 product engineering group releases software updates for the operating system on a regular basis. Oracle solaris 11 introduced two new commands for manually administering networks, dladm and ipadm, and both supersede ifconfig. Installation group package types and usage oracle solaris 11. Use groupmod command to modify a group definition on the system.
How to develop a defensive plan for your opensource software project. The groupquota value only applies to the owning group of a file as reflected in the uidgid outputs of ls l command. Users and roles in oracle solaris 11 the urban penguin. Oracle solaris provides several system installation group packages. A group package specifies the set of packages that constitute a feature or tool. Oracle solaris 11 provides group packages that are appropriate for the following. The entire solaris software group contains the packages for the developer solaris software group and additional software that is needed for servers. This document covers multiple topics for transitioning from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11 platforms. Oracle solaris 11 is a supported guest operating system on oracle vm server for sparc, oracle vm server for x86, and oracle vm virtualbox. How to get started configuring your network in oracle. How to configure link based ipmp in solaris 11 the geek. You can find the list of the top tier free and open source software here.
How do you list users in a solaris group the unix and. Oracle solaris 10 installation methods provide software package clusters that install. Users and roles in oracle solaris 11 december 30, 20 by the urban penguin users in oracle solaris 11 are identified by a user id and group id but we will see that each process has a real, effective and set user id and group id. In ips, software versions can be organized into incorporations, which define a set of software versions. Hey forumers i know how to tell which update of solaris 10 is installed on my systems etcrelease but how can i determine which software group is installed. Oracle solaris 11 provides group packages that are appropriate for the.
Oracle solaris 11 provides four group packages that are appropriate for a. How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 the geek. Hello, i am working on a ldap client configuration on solaris 11 with a new ldap server in a different active directory domain. In addition, the commandline tools that are used by the solaris management console are no longer available.
Updating systems and adding software in oracle solaris 11. Oracle made a tone of changes to its networking stack in solaris 11. The oracle solaris 11 gui installer installs the groupsystemsolarisdesktop or solarisdesktop group package. Oracle solaris group packages packaging and delivering. Ips installation package groups transitioning from oracle.
Introduction to oracle solaris 11 zfs file system handson labs of the system admin and developer community of otn oracle solaris zfs is a revolutionary file system that changes the way we look at storage allocation for open systems. The oracle solaris 11 gui installer installs the solarisdesktop group package. Modify default group for new users in solaris 11 unix. I know that use of etcinittab is deprecated in solaris 11 but at the moment we would prefer not to have to modify our software to use smf. To install the oracledatabasepreinstall19c group packages, log in as root, and run the following command on oracle solaris 11. Thus, a secondary group cannot be specified when setting. Software raid 10 in solaris 11, multipath, and a few. Install some software, or collection, or group of software, to a whole new boot. Adding and updating oracle solaris 11 software packages. The packages are not supported through any oracle support channels. The oracle solaris 11 gui installer installs the groupsystemsolarisdesktop. These packages are available at the oracle solaris product release repository for customers running oracle solaris 11. Oracle solaris formerly sunos is a commercial product that provides users with an integrated and full featured serveroriented platform that combines the powerful openstack open source cloud computing software with a stable and reliable enterpriseclass operating system availability, supported platforms, boot options, and a little bit of history.
How to update solaris 11 system using ips the geek diary. This section defines terms and concepts that are used in the remainder of this guide. You can treat the oracle solaris 11 virtual machines as a baremetal instance as far as this lab is concerned. In oracle solaris 11, you create and manage users, groups, and roles by using commandline tools only. Introduction to oracle solaris 11 zfs zettabyte file system. Basic operations for oracle solaris 11 administration. Solaris is a unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. I have multiple ntp servers which broadcast at 224. System administrators can maintain multiple bes on their systems, and each be can have different software versions installed. With oracle solaris 11, users can conveniently leverage software shared on the internet. The top tier of free and open source software in oracle solaris 11 is fully supported per the terms of oracle s premier support for oracle solaris. The source code used to build the components is available at the solaris userland project on. Familiarity with administering oracle solaris 11 systems, including the new packaging system is an advantage.
I have found referenced out there, do not seem compatible with sol11 pkg. Is there a command or better combination of cmds that will give me the list of unix users in a particular unix group whether their primary group is that group. Oracle solaris 11 includes a new networkcentric software package management framework called the image packaging system ips. The virtual ip interface serves all of the data ip addresses, while test addresses that are used for probebased failure detection are assigned to an underlying interface, such as net0. Installing a group package installs all the group dependency packages in that group package. Would the software array with zfs come anywhere close to a hw raid 10 on the t2000. More freeopensource software now available for solaris 11. Hi we have an application running on solaris 11 which uses etcinittab entries to spawn and maintain a number of daemon processes. When an administrator creates a group, the system assigns the solaris. Ips tools enable you to install, upgrade, and remove software packages for the. The dtrace troubleshooting software from sun was chosen as the gold winner in the wall street. These devices are cdcecm as far as i can work out, in that they will present themselves to the operating system as an ethernet device. The top tier of free and open source software in oracle solaris 11 is fully supported per the terms of oracles premier support for oracle solaris.
By default, when you install solaris 11 onto a sparc system using the solaris text installer, the solaris largeserver pkg group is installed. Solaris packages prior to solaris 11 itom practitioner portal. Managing boot environments in solaris 11 the geek diary. Activeactive all the interfaces in the ipmp group are online. Use groupadd command to add create a new group definition on the system. Oracle doesnt seem to care about solaris 11 code leak on ars technica by sean gallagher dec 21.
Oracle solaris 11 gives you consistent compatibility, is simple to use, and is designed to always be secure. Solaris packages are the container packages for solaris. Unlike ifconfig, changes made by dladm and ipadm are persistent across reboots. Introducing the ai manifest editor cli in solaris 11. This is quite a large pkg group that provides most of the software youd need on a server. I have prepared the usbmedia using a virtual box installation of solaris 11. For example core system support software group contains the packages that provide the minimum code that is required to boot and run a networked solaris system. Customer wish to install a new remedy itsm version 20. Oracle solaris 11 overview and design guide fujitsu. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements continue reading solaris adding group. If another administrator who has the same authorization creates a group, that administrator has the control over that group. Package actions include files, directories, links, drivers, dependencies, groups, users, and license information. Oracle solaris is the trusted business platform that you depend on. If it is not on your system, you would need to first install it before using it for installing p5i packages.
As a part of new features in solaris 11, you can set a limit on the amount of space consumed by a specific group. Planning to use solaris 11 on the t2000 10 on the netra, and i want to use it to learn about setting up zones and everything else i can about 11 my background is more linuxxbsd. The group package is a content management tool, not a version management tool. An ips package is defined by a text file called a manifest. How to add a group managing user accounts and user. For a configuration perspective on the solaris 11, i updated the configuration for ad servers, the dns servers and the ldap credentials, and try to connect with a well known user and password.
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