Welcome to BigAdmin, a Web-based, community-driven repository of resources specifically for system administrators--by sys admins. For more info on what BigAdmin offers and how to use BigAdmin, see the BigAdmin FAQ.
Documentation and How-To Info
OpenSolaris documentation and how-to information is available here:
The Use section of the opensolaris.com site* section provides links to documentation and
how-to info for installing, using, administering, and distributing the OpenSolaris software.
The OpenSolaris Resource Collection on BigAdmin has links to third-party, community, and
Sun resources. It also includes BigAdmin articles, tech tips, documentation, and resource centers, such as:
And here are some specific how-to documents and articles that might be of interest:
OpenSolaris how-to guides on opensolaris.com:
How to Configure a Logical Domain (pdf)*, which is intended to help
sys admins configure SPARC CMT machines with logical domains (LDoms) and contains step-by-step instructions for installing the logical
domain manager and configuring a guest domain
How to Use SourceJuicer (pdf)*, which describes how to build
new IPS software packages and submit them for review to be hosted on an IPS repository for users to install
Installing Sun Web Stack on OpenSolaris OS,
an article that shows how to install Web Stack, which contains popular preconfigured tools for developing and running applications