alan mcclellan wrote: >>> * Network administrator >>> Responsible for maintaining multiple OpenSolaris servers used by >>> multiple people. Responsibilities are more "enterprise" like, >>> including auto-installations and updates, user management, security, >>> storage, network communication, etc. >>> >> >> I guess I would fall under this category, although "systems >> administrator" seems like a more common name for this role that >> network administrator. >> > Out of curiosity, what's your environment like? How many servers/users?
I don't think I can get into specifics without permission to do so, but I can be kinda vague. I have hundreds of servers, most of which run RHEL and a LAMP stack to provide web services. I'm interested in Opensolaris because of ZFS and I'm experimenting with how we can use opensolaris as the basis for a storage system that acts like a poor mans filer. The rest of our environment will stay on linux, there no plans to change that. >> Documentaion that would really help me out in my work with opensolaris >> would be a set of migration guides and docs for experienced Linux >> sysadmins. I'm constanly running into things that are different on >> Opensolaris than on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and I have to hunt >> through google and docs.sun.com for answers. It would be great to >> have a manual that covered a lot of the common topics that I could >> reference first. >> >> > We hear this a lot and are taking some steps to address. As you've gone > through this exercise, have you kept a running list of items that were > particularly troublesome? If so, please pass along. Not a complete list, but I did make some notes for some of the steps. The most jarring thing are ways the GNU tools are installed and used. Sometimes a gnu tool is the default, other times it isn't (i.e. gtar instead of tar). I realize that I'm not working on a linux box, but it still feels weird poking around. Knowing about /usr/gnu and /usr/sfw earlier on would've helped me. Where are the files that I can edit to configure the network card(s)? In RHEL, I can edit /etc/sysconfig/network* files, in OS I have to use the gnome tool. Took me a few tries to figure out the differences in teh svcs and svcadm commands (I guess svcs is like the missing "svcadm report" command ;) Automounter is already in effect for /home, had to disable that. How about another column here that shows the yum and rpm equivalents? http://opensolaris.org/os/community/documentation/apt_ips/ I will try to keep better notes from now on. Tom _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
