Preface

The Administration Application Reference Manual provides procedural and reference information about Administration Tool, a suite of tools used to perform system administration tasks in the Solaris^(TM) 2.x environment. The suite of tools is sometimes referred as admintool, the program that is used to start the application tools.

Administration Tool was developed by Sun to provide a graphical user interface for performing both simple and common administration tasks in the Solaris 2.x environment in a consistent way.

This book also contains reference information about Software Manager. See the Software and AnswerBook Packages Administration Guide for information on using Software Manager.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for experienced and junior administrators who need information on using the administration tools to perform administrative tasks such as setting up a user, printer, diskless client, or terminal.

Before You Read This Book

To use this book, you should be familiar with all aspects of Solaris 2.x system administration. You should also be familiar with using a three-button mouse and graphical user interface.

How This Book Is Organized

This book is divided into two parts:

• Part 1--Using Administration Tool

  Part 1 of this book provides task-specific information needed to use the administration tools.

• Part 2--Administration Tool Reference

  Part 2 of this book provides reference information about each tool's command menus and options.

This table provides a brief description of the chapters in this book.

Chapter Numbers	Contents
Part 1 Chapter 1	An overview of the administration tools and a description of common features.
Chapter 2	Information about using the administration tools in a name service environment and setting up administration tool security.
Chapters 3-7	Information on performing specific system administration tasks using the application tools.
Part 2 Chapters 8-14	Reference information about each tool's commands, menus, and windows.

Related Books

The following SunSoft documentation provides information on using the OPEN LOOK^(R) version of the application tools, and can be used to provide additional background information for the tools described in this book.

• Name Services Administration Guide
• Common Administration Tasks
• User Accounts, Printers, and Mail Administration
• SPARC: Installing Solaris Software
• x86: Installing Solaris Software
• Peripherals Administration

What Typographic Changes and Symbols Mean

The following table describes the type changes and symbols used in this book.

Table P-1

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
AaBbCc123	The names of commands, files, and directories; on-screen computer output	Edit your .login file. Use ls -a to list all files. system% You have mail.
AaBbCc123	What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output	system%su Password:
AaBbCc123	Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value	To delete a file, type rm filename.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. You must be root to do this.
Code samples are included in boxes and may display the following: C shell prompt........system%
	Superuser prompt, C shell	system#
	Bourne and Korn shell prompt	$
	Superuser prompt, Bourne and Korn shells	#