Solaris

Good morning guys

I'm working with AIX/Power5/Power4/RS600 for one year now at work,
I have to administrate about 70 Servers (most of them virtualized) with SAP, DB2,Oracle and a few other applications
before that I was just using Linux for private puprose

now, since our Solaris/HP admins are going to leave, it seems that I get about 60 solaris and 10 hpux boxes in addition, the problem is I have no experience with that os
most of them are webservers, firewalls and dns, file and mailservers
and about 35 sunray workstations with secure global desktop

my target always was to automize everything, so that the administrative affort was a minimum (this was absolutely necessary and not because I'm lazy


can anyone give me book recommendations or links, or just give me some tipps for the start with solaris - hpux for an admin with AIX knowledge?

thanks in advance, I'm happy for every answer, since this is one of the greatest challenges I was ever facing

cheers,
funksen

edit: forgot to say, solaris 8 9 and 10, sparc and x86

I admin several different types of unix boxes but started on Solaris. I found that each of the systems are pretty similar in the ways you're probably going to using them, especially if you've been scripting vs using smit for everything.

Take it easy at first, explore the systems and see where everything is.

If you don't already have it, I'd recommend O'Reilly's Safari bookshelf. You have access to quite a few ebooks. I used it to get familiar with HP's disk management software (Veritas and ServiceGuard). It also has the Sun Boot Disk Management ebook for Solstice Disk Suite.

Some helpful links:

http://sunsolve.sun.com - basically the techbase. Includes all the patches you'd need.
http://www.sun.com/bigadmin - All the blueprint docs you'd ever need.
http://www.sunfreeware.com - precompiled software for Solaris.

And of course, we're here to help too

Good luck.

Carl

thanks alot carl, the safari bookshelf is great, didn't know that o'reilly has such a service

perhaps I can get my company paying for the safari library
I bought a lot of o'reillys books in the past (yesterday the sed&awk book )

Yep, and the nice thing is that it's not just O'Reilly. Addison-Wesley and even Microsoft have books out there. I've spoken to others and they find ebooks to be a much better value since the cost of shipping books overseas can jack up the prices and computer books are expensive anyway. A couple of things I like about ebooks is I don't have to lug around my books and I have several thousand bucks in O'Reilly books. There are some that are timeless but many computer books are obsolete almost as soon as you get them

Carl

I have found the UNIX Rosetta Stone http://bhami.com/rosetta.html invaluable when working across multiple UNIX operating systems.