Solaris Administration Cheat Sheet
User Management
useradd <username>
passwd <username>
usermod -G <group> <username>
userdel <username>
groupadd <groupname>
Service Management (SMF)
svcs -a # List all services
svcadm enable <svc> # Enable a service
svcadm disable <svc> # Disable a service
svcs -xv # Troubleshoot services
Package Management
Solaris 10:
pkgadd -d <package>
pkgrm <package>
pkginfo
Solaris 11:
pkg list
pkg install <pkg>
pkg uninstall <pkg>
pkg update
Disk and ZFS Commands
format # List and manage disks
zpool list # List ZFS pools
zpool status # Pool health
zfs list # List ZFS datasets
zfs create pool/fs # Create a dataset
zpool attach rpool disk1 disk2 # Mirror root pool
Solaris Administration Cheat Sheet
Process and System Monitoring
prstat # Show top processes
vmstat 1 # Memory and CPU stats
iostat -xnz 5 # Disk I/O stats
netstat -rn # Routing table
Boot Environment (Solaris 11)
beadm list # Show boot environments
beadm create <BE>
beadm activate <BE>
Zone Management
zonecfg -z <zone> create
zonecfg -z <zone> set ...
zoneadm -z <zone> install
zoneadm -z <zone> boot
zlogin <zone> # Login to zone
Backup and Snapshots
zfs snapshot pool/fs@snapname # Create snapshot
zfs rollback pool/fs@snapname # Rollback snapshot
u fsdump # UFS backup
ufsrestore # Restore from UFS dump
Cron Jobs
crontab -e # Edit cron jobs
crontab -l # List cron jobs
/etc/cron.d/ # System-wide jobs
Networking
ipadm show-addr # Show IP addresses
dladm show-link # Show links
ipadm create-addr -T static -a 192.168.1.10/24 net0
