Solaris[tm] 8 Operating Environment 1/01
Description and What's New

Solaris 8 1/01 adds selected product features and updates to the functionality originally provided in the Solaris 8 Operating Environment; Solaris 8 6/00 and 10/00 update release, enhancing its capabilities and reputation as the scalable, available, manageable, trustworthy, connected and comprehensive platform of choice for the .com world -- all while maintaining compatibility with previous releases of Solaris.

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• Solaris Management Console^TM (SMC) 2.0: SMC 2.0 is a GUI based "umbrella application" that serves as the launching point for a variety of management tools. The SMC comes with a default toolbox. Tools can be added or deleted from the default toolbox. Also, a different toolbox containing different set of tools can be created by using the SMC Toolbox Editor.
• Diskless Client Management: Diskless client is a workstation that depends on an OS server, or host, for its operating system, software, and storage. Diskless client management consists of a command-line interface. Solaris 8 1/01 update release supports SPARC architecture or IA OS SERVERS that run the Solaris 8 1/01 operating environment; and, SPARC architecture diskless clients that run either the Solaris 8 1/01, Solaris 7, or Solaris 2.6 operating environments from their OS servers.
• Role Based Access Control (RBAC): Role based access control databases can now be managed through the user tool in the Solaris Management Control graphical interface. Changes in the RBAC allow ease of configuration and administration.
• Improved UFS Direct I/O Concurrency (Quick I/O equivalent): Solaris 8 1/01 update release allows concurrent read and write access to regular UFS files. As databases generally pre-allocate files and seldom extend them thereafter, the effects of this enhancement are seen during the normal database operations. The improvement brings I/O-bound database performance on a UFS file system to about 90% of raw partition access speeds.
• UFS Snapshots: Allows customers to take a point in time snapshot of a UFS file system. UFS snapshot (command: fssnap) enables the user to keep the file system mounted and the system in multiuser mode during backups. The fssnap command gives administrators of non-enterprise-level systems the power of enterprise-level tools like SunStorEdge^TM Instant Image without the large storage demands.
• New Dynamic reconfiguration Error Messaging: The Dynamic reconfiguration software has been enhanced in the Solaris 8 1/01 release to improve troubleshooting problems.
• JDK^TM Enhancements: Solaris 8 1/01 release includes the JDK^TM 1.2.2_06 and JDK 1.1.8_12 which are improved with bug fixes since the last release.
• Installation Enhancements: During system identification, the utilities can configure systems to be LDAP clients. Prior releases allowed the configuration of the machine only as NIS, NIS+, or DNS clients. The Solaris^TM Web Start 3.0 installation method has been updated to allow modification of selected Solaris Software Group by adding or removing software packages.
• Administering and Uninstalling Software: A new version of the Solaris Product Registry tool has been released with Solaris 1/01 release. The new tool includes: the ability to uninstall individual system packages, all of the Solaris system products installed in their localised version appear in the Systems Software Localizations folder; and , registry is compatible with more installation wizards.