I have prepared the usbmedia using a virtual box installation of solaris 11. By default, when you install solaris 11 onto a sparc system using the solaris text installer, the solaris largeserver pkg group is installed. 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. You can treat the oracle solaris 11 virtual machines as a baremetal instance as far as this lab is concerned. More freeopensource software now available for solaris 11.
Creating and managing user accounts, groups, and roles. I have found referenced out there, do not seem compatible with sol11 pkg. When an administrator creates a group, the system assigns the solaris. Modify default group for new users in solaris 11 unix. There is currently no gui tool for performing these tasks. Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on sparc systems, and for originating many innovative features. Hi we have an application running on solaris 11 which uses etcinittab entries to spawn and maintain a number of daemon processes. If another administrator who has the same authorization creates a group, that administrator has the control over that group. 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. Solaris packages prior to solaris 11 itom practitioner portal. The entire solaris software group contains the packages for the developer solaris software group and additional software that is needed for servers.
Solaris 11 reduce package group from largeserver to minimal. The group package is a content management tool, not a version management tool. Help required with inittab mechanism on solaris 11. The oracle solaris 11 gui installer installs the groupsystemsolarisdesktop or solarisdesktop group package. The oracle solaris 11 product engineering group releases software updates for the operating system on a regular basis. 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 oracle solaris 11 gui installer installs the groupsystemsolarisdesktop. Oracle solaris 11 overview and design guide fujitsu. Thus, a secondary group cannot be specified when setting. The packages are not supported through any oracle support channels. Oracle solaris 11 is known to work on a number of other thirdparty virtualization offerings from vendors including vmware, microsoft, and red hat.
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. How to update solaris 11 system using ips the geek diary. Customer wish to install a new remedy itsm version 20. Hello, i am working on a ldap client configuration on solaris 11 with a new ldap server in a different active directory domain. Oracle solaris 11 provides group packages that are appropriate for the. You can find the list of the top tier free and open source software here. The dtrace troubleshooting software from sun was chosen as the gold winner in the wall street. 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. Basic operations for oracle solaris 11 administration. Installation group package types and usage oracle solaris 11. The following command shows that oracle solaris 11.
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. To install the oracledatabasepreinstall19c group packages, log in as root, and run the following command on oracle solaris 11. Oracle solaris 11 gives you consistent compatibility, is simple to use, and is designed to always be secure. Software raid 10 in solaris 11, multipath, and a few. Oracle made a tone of changes to its networking stack in solaris 11. Since auditing is already enabled by default in solaris 11, if you only want to add the commands executed then run. How to add a group managing user accounts and user. Use groupmod command to modify a group definition on the system. In 2010, after the sun acquisition by oracle, it was renamed oracle solaris. 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. Updating systems and adding software in oracle solaris 11. The source code used to build the components is available at the solaris userland project on. A package manifest describes package actions in a defined format of keyvalue pairs and possibly a data payload.
Use groupadd command to add create a new group definition on the system. Oracle solaris 11 provides four group packages that are appropriate for a. Installing a group package installs all the group dependency packages in that group package. Oracle solaris 11 includes a new networkcentric software package management framework called the image packaging system ips.
Weve been designing the os for for more than two decades, always ensuring that weve engineered in features to meet. How to develop a defensive plan for your opensource software project. This is quite a large pkg group that provides most of the software youd need on a server. Managing boot environments in solaris 11 the geek diary. Packages specified as group dependencies in a group package do not specify the package version. How to get started configuring your network in oracle. A group package specifies the set of packages that constitute a feature or tool. 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. Install some software, or collection, or group of software, to a whole new boot. This section defines terms and concepts that are used in the remainder of this guide. A be is a bootable instance of an oracle solaris 11 operating system plus any other application software packages installed into that image. You will be working on oracle solaris 11 virtual machines using oracle vm virtualbox.
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. Oracle solaris 10 installation methods provide software package clusters that install a. Package actions include files, directories, links, drivers, dependencies, groups, users, and license information. The following three group packages are used by the oracle solaris 11 installers. For information about fields in the fmri, see fault management resource identifiers. With oracle solaris 11, users can conveniently leverage software shared on the internet. They share a common, consistent command format and, unlike ifconfig, they have parseable output that can be used in scripts. I and many users of this group are indebted to you. Would the software array with zfs come anywhere close to a hw raid 10 on the t2000. Adblock detected my website is made possible by displaying online advertisements continue reading solaris adding group.
The oracle solaris 11 gui installer installs the solarisdesktop group package. As a part of new features in solaris 11, you can set a limit on the amount of space consumed by a specific group. The following four group packages are used by the oracle solaris 11. 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. Solaris is a unix operating system originally developed by sun microsystems. Solaris packages are the container packages for solaris. These packages are available at the oracle solaris product release repository for customers running oracle solaris 11.
However in some cases waiting for 5 minutes might not be desirable. Ips concepts adding and updating oracle solaris 11. Only the solarisminimalserver and solarislargeserver groups. Unlike ifconfig, changes made by dladm and ipadm are persistent across reboots. Oracle solaris 11 introduced two new commands for manually administering networks, dladm and ipadm, and both supersede ifconfig. Introducing the ai manifest editor cli in solaris 11. Get xterm on solaris 11 without installing the whole of the solaris desktop group. Oracle solaris 10 installation methods provide software package clusters that install. I have multiple ntp servers which broadcast at 224. In oracle solaris 11, you create and manage users, groups, and roles by using commandline tools only. Oracle solaris 11 provides group packages that are appropriate for the following. 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. An ips package is defined by a text file called a manifest. Oracle solaris is the trusted business platform that you depend on.
How to install desktop gui in solaris 11 x86 the geek. This book is for anyone who is responsible for administering one or more systems that run the oracle solaris operating system os. The groupquota value only applies to the owning group of a file as reflected in the uidgid outputs of ls l command. If it is not on your system, you would need to first install it before using it for installing p5i packages. How to configure link based ipmp in solaris 11 the geek. Oracle solaris group packages packaging and delivering. Ips tools enable you to install, upgrade, and remove software packages for the. Activeactive all the interfaces in the ipmp group are online. Adding and updating oracle solaris 11 software packages. A package group is a collection of packages corresponding to a software group of solaris 10. This document covers multiple topics for transitioning from oracle solaris 10 to oracle solaris 11 platforms. Listing all installable packages in a group package adding and.
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. Ips installs and updates software packages from locally connected or remote repositories, automatically checking and resolving software dependencies. 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. Solaris 11 ntp multicast client no association ids returned. System administrators can maintain multiple bes on their systems, and each be can have different software versions installed. In ips, software versions can be organized into incorporations, which define a set of software versions. Oracle solaris provides several system installation group packages. Maybe i missed the moment when it asked me about the installed software, but now i have. Introduction to oracle solaris 11 zfs zettabyte file system. 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.
Persistent network configuration is now managed by smf, and not by editing following files. How do you list users in a solaris group the unix and. 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. Oracle solaris 11 is a supported guest operating system on oracle vm server for sparc, oracle vm server for x86, and oracle vm virtualbox.
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