Rough sketch of the steps required to setup a production
Solaris server
- Rack
- Power
- Ethernet
- IP(s)
assignment
- DNS for
hostname
- Console
connection
- Console
configuration Cisco 2511
- Install
Solaris 8 (entire distribution but not OEM)
- Single
slice partition with swap for tmp
- Install
patches - ftp://kinscoe.harcourt.com/pub/soft/patches/README.txt
- Install SSH
- http://kinscoe.harcourt.com/whs/docs/howtos/installing_ssh_on_solaris_8.txt
- Minimalize
services - http://kinscoe.harcourt.com/whs/docs/howtos/solaris_8_hardening.txt http://www.enteract.com/~lspitz/armoring.html
- Configure
NIC’s to full-duplex (email instructions)
- Add
standard /etc/system parameters (Oracle or standard web host – need
instructions on this. Currently cloning from wsdb01/wsdb02, et. al.)
- Comment out
the telnet and ftp services in /etc/inetd.conf and reboot or HUP inetd
- Install
standard toolset (WIP)
- Install NBU
- Configure
/etc/syslog.conf (WIP)
- Add staff
acounts
- Add
monitoring account for Nagios
- Install
vncserver (if required) - http://kinscoe.harcourt.com/whs/docs/howtos/install_vnc.txt
- Make MD5
hash of all system files and store as a gold copy (WIP)
- Make mirror
of system disks (SDS)
- Mirror data
disks (if needed) (SDS or Veritas)
Last updated: 8/1/2002 Ver: 1