This chapter provides a roadmap to Solaris management tools.What's New in Solaris Management Tools? Matrix of Solaris Management Tools and Supported Releases Feature Descriptions for Solaris Management Tools Feature Descriptions for Solaris 9 Management Tools Availability of Solaris Management Commands For More Information About Solaris Management Tools No new Solaris Management tools have been introduced in this Solaris release.These tools are new or changed in the Solaris 10 initial 3/05 release:admintool – Starting with the Solaris 10 release, this tool is no longer available Package and Patch Tool Enhancements The following table provides a brief description of new or changed Solaris management tools .Solaris Management Tool Description For More Information admintool This tool is no longer available. Alternative tools include the following:Solaris Management Console to manage users and groups Solaris Product Registry to manage software Solaris Print Manager to manage printers Solaris Management Console to manage terminals and modems Setting Up User Accounts (Task Map)Managing Software With the Solaris Product Registry GUI (Task Map)Chapter 4, Setting Up Printers (Tasks), in System Administration Guide: Solaris PrintingSetting Up Terminals and Modems With Serial Ports Tool (Overview) in System Administration Guide: Advanced Administration Package and Patch Tools Starting with the Solaris 10 release, the package and patch tools have been enhanced. Use the pkgchk command with the P option instead of grep pattern /var/sadm/install/contents. The P option enables you to use a partial path. Package and Patch Tool EnhancementsChapter 21, Managing Solaris Patches by Using the patchadd Command (Tasks) Solaris Print Manager Expanded printer support in Solaris Print Manager includes the following features. These features were introduced in a Solaris 10 release: Never Print Banner option Support for raster image processor (RIP) Support for PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files New n option to the lpadmin command, which enables you to specify a PPD file when creating a new print queue or modifying an existing print queue The lpstat command output displays the PPD for a print queue that was creating by specifying a PPD file What’s New in Printing? in System Administration Guide: Solaris Printing This section provides information about tools that are primarily used to manage users, groups, clients, disks, printers, and serial ports.This table lists the various Solaris management GUI tools and whether they are currently supported. Current Solaris Release Express Solaris 10 Solaris 9 admintool Not supported Not supported Supported Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 Not supported Not supported Not supported Solstice AdminSuite 3.0 Not supported Not supported Not supported Solaris Management Tools 1.0 Not supported Not supported Not supported Solaris Management Tools 2.0 Not supported Not supported Not supported Solaris Management Tools 2.1 Supported Supported Supported Solaris 8 admintool Supported Solstice AdminSuite 2.3 Not supported Solstice AdminSuite 3.0 Supported Solaris Management Tools 1.0 Supported Solaris Management Tools 2.0 Supported (Solaris 8 01/01, 4/01, 7/01, 10/01, 2/02 releases only) Solaris Management Tools 2.1 Not supported If you want to perform administration tasks on a system with a text-based terminal as the console, use Solaris Management Console commands instead. For more information, see Table 1–6. This table describes the tools that are available in the Solaris Express release.Feature or Tool Supported in Solaris Management Console 2.1? Computers and Networks tool Supported Diskless Client support A diskless client command-line interface is available Disks tool Supported Enhanced Disk tool (Solaris Volume Manager) Supported Job Scheduler tool Supported Log Viewer tool Supported Mail Alias support Supported Mounts and Shares tool Supported Name Service support For users, groups, and network information only Performance tool Supported Printer support Not Supported, but Solaris Print Manager is available as a separate tool Projects tool Supported role-based access control (RBAC) support Supported RBAC Tool Supported Serial Port tool Supported Software Package tool Not supported System Information tool Supported User/Group tool Supported This table describes the tools available in the Solaris 9 releases.Feature or Tool Supported in admintool? Supported in Solaris Management Console 2.1? Computers and Networks tool Not supported Supported Diskless Client support Not supported A diskless client command-line interface is available Disks tool Not supported Supported Enhanced Disk tool (Solaris Volume Manager) Not supported Supported Job Scheduler tool Not supported Supported Log Viewer tool Not supported Supported Mail Alias support Not supported Supported Mounts and Shares tool Not supported Supported Name Service support Not supported For users, groups, and network information only Performance tool Not supported Supported Printer support Supported Not supported, but Solaris Print Manager is available as a separate tool Projects tool Not supported Supported RBAC support Not supported Supported RBAC tool Not supported Supported Serial Port tool Supported Supported Software Package tool Supported Not supported System Information tool Not supported Supported User/Group tool Supported Supported This series of tables lists commands that perform the same tasks as the Solaris management tools. For information on diskless client support, see Chapter 7, Managing Diskless Clients (Tasks).This table describes the commands that provide the same functionality as the Solaris management tools. You must be superuser or assume an equivalent role to use these commands. Some of these commands are for the local system only. Others commands operate in a name service environment. See the appropriate man page and refer to the D option.Command Description Man Page smc Starts the Solaris Management Console smc1M smcron Manages crontab jobs smcron1M smdiskless Manages diskless client support smdiskless1M smexec Manages entries in the exec_attr database smexec1M smgroup Manages group entries smgroup1M smlog Manages and views WBEM log files smlog1M smmultiuser Manages bulk operations on multiple user accounts smmultiuser1M smosservice Adds Operating System (OS) services and diskless client support smosservice1M smprofile Manages profiles in the prof_attr and exec_attr databases smprofile1M smrole Manages roles and users in role accounts smrole1M smserialport Manages serial ports smserialport1M smuser Manages user entries smuser1M This table describes the commands you can use to manage RBAC from the command line. You must be superuser or assume an equivalent role to use these commands. These commands cannot be used to manage RBAC information in a name service environment.Command Description References auths Displays authorizations granted to a user auths1 profiles Displays execution profiles for a user profiles1 roleadd Adds a new role to the system roleadd1M roles Displays roles granted to a user roles1 This table describes the commands you can use to manage users, groups, and RBAC features from the command line. You must be superuser or assume an equivalent role to use these commands. These commands cannot be used to manage user and group information in a name service environment.Command Description References useradd, usermod, userdel Adds, modifies, or removes a user useradd1M, usermod1M, userdel1M groupadd, groupmod, groupdel Adds, modifies, or removes a group groupadd1M, groupmod1M, groupdel1M This table identifies where to find more information about Solaris management tools.Tool Availability For More Information Solaris Management Console 2.1 suite of tools Solaris 9, 10, and Solaris Express releases This guide and the console online help Solaris Management Console 2.0 suite of tools Solaris 8 1/01, 4/01, 7/01, 10/01, and 2/02 releases Solaris Management Console online help admintool Solaris 9 and previous Solaris releases admintool AdminSuite 3.0 Solaris 8, Solaris 8 6/00, and Solaris 8 10/00 releases Solaris Easy Access Server 3.0 Installation Guide Diskless Client command-line interface Solaris 8 1/01, 4/01, 7/01, 10/01, 2/02, Solaris 9, Solaris 10, and Solaris Express releases Chapter 7, Managing Diskless Clients (Tasks)