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Solaris System Management | ||
By John Philcox | ||
Publisher | : New Riders Publishing | |
Pub Date | : May 10, 2001 | |
ISBN | : 0-7357-1018-X | |
Pages | : 320 | |
Slots | : 1 | |
Plan, architect, and secure a Solaris infrastructure using Solaris System Management :
Teaches readers how to make strategic decisions on how to provide an efficient, robust and secure Solaris environment.
Shows System Managers how to use Solaris tools for innovative uses like the gathering and manipulation of Management Information.
Prepares System Managers to be armed with sufficient knowledge to develop sound strategies.
Solaris System Management provides the system manager with the information needed to make the critical, higher level, "architectural" decisions such as large project rollouts and their impact. The author addresses the specific needs of the System Manager working in a Solaris environment focusing on task-oriented solutions for the critical decision this demanding job requires. For example, the book covers how to work through the decision of upgrading to a new version of the OS involving many complex issues. Other examples include managing core infrastructure services, balancing security with distributed name , and meeting the customer's needs and priorities or Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
John Philcox has worked in the IT industry for 20 years, the last 13 years on SunOS/Solaris. He has successfully managed his own company for the past four years, providing computing services to both public and private sector companies. He has spent several years as a System Administrator and Technical Support specialist as well as being a System Manager and on several occasions, been a part of a Project Assurance Team as a Technical Assurance Coordinator and a User Assurance Coordinator. Philcox has been a professional member of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems (previously the Institute Of Data Processing Management) since 1989.