Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide: Amazon.co.uk: Dr. Paul Andrew Watters: Books

Eugenia Loli-Queru, OSNews.com, June 2002

"Overall, this is one of the must-have books for any Solaris administrator, or for other Unix admins who want to migrate to Solaris."

Product Description

The Solaris operating system, along with related Sun products like Java, is one of the most reliable and scalable platforms on which to build e-commerce products, and on which to support all networked services. Yet, one problem that potential users face is finding out more information about what Solaris offers. In a sense, they want to know how much technical work is involved in migrating to Solaris, and what kind of philosophy Solaris is based on.

To answer these questions, Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide covers all aspects of deploying Solaris as a network server, including both basic and advanced network services. Given newfound interest in Solaris as an enterprise network operating system, this guide is aimed squarely at supporting enterprise-level services. It's written for experienced network administrators who want an objective guide to networking with Solaris, and covers installation on both the Intel and Sparc platforms. With it, you will learn how to setup Solaris as a file server, application server, and database server.

In its coverage of advanced topics, Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide offers examples of configuration files and the installation of third-party software packages. This comprehensive book also contains more conceptual and difficult material that is absent from other Solaris reference manuals. At all points, emphasis is placed on issues like evaluating the security, scalability, and reliability of specific software packages--at the expense of providing detailed coverage of every available package.

The book covers the practical experience and new skills needed to understand the impact of new services and new software products on existing server systems. Author Paul Watters--a recognized authority on Solaris--avoids so-called "historical" services, like UUCP, which can easily fill chapters but are not commonly found in today's production environments. Indeed, he doesn't bother to provide an in-depth history of Solaris or UNIX at all, assuming that you can find this material elsewhere. Instead, the practical focus is on supporting relevant contemporary networking technologies.

Solaris 8 Administrator's Guide provides you with a third-party view that not only praises Solaris, but is critical and realistic in its assessment. This book is for experienced Solaris Administrators as well as and those looking to migrate to this operating system.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful

Excellent Overview 23 May 2002

By A Customer

Format:Paperback

I really, really enjoyed this guidebook - sort of like a rambler's guide to running Solaris networks. The author takes the reader through ten chapters providing overall guidance and some detailed architectural insights into development and deployment of e-commerce and more generic services.

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Not what I expected 23 Jan 2004

By Simon Hayes

This book is very useful for those who are migrating to the Solaris platform, but not what I was looking for. I am an infrastructure analyst and administer Solaris as a living, but I still found some points useful. It's amazing how many of the little things you don't use can be so useful. I was expecting a larger insight into some of the topics, but still a good book none the less

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An Excellent Book 18 July 2002

By zak beam

I found this book essential for Solaris maintenance. I went from making obvious mistakes due to my FreeBSD background (such as using /bin/bash), to fully undertanding advanced concepts such as restarting daemons using init scripts!

This book is almost as challanging as the course I do at TAFE on computing! It's even helped me with some of their complicated operating systems courses.

Highly recommended.