In this chapter, you will

• Be introduced to the SMC

• Get a description of the services that can be performed with the SMC

• Cover the steps involved in configuring the SMC

• Learn how to add new tasks and hosts to the SMC

In the past, several attempts have been made to develop an extensible, easy-to-use GUI for managing individual Solaris systems and groups of Solaris systems. Until recently, the admintool was the main GUI administration tool supplied with the Solaris distribution. However, since the Solaris 8 Admin Pack release, a new tool has been made available—the Solaris Management Console (SMC). In this chapter, we will examine all of the functionality available through the SMC to manage individual servers and groups of servers.