Suggested Readings and Resources

For more information on the OpenBoot environment and the boot process, refer to Inside Solaris 9 by Bill Calkins, 2002, New Riders.

For more information on the Service Management Facility (SMF), refer to the "Managing Services" section of the Solaris 10 System Administration Guide: Basic Administration, 2005, Sun Microsystems, Part Number Part No: 817-1985-11. This manual is available online at docs.sun.com.

For more information on the Solaris kernel and tuning the Solaris kernel parameters, refer to the following publications:

• The Solaris Tunable Parameters Reference Manual, 2005, Sun Microsystems, Part number 817-0404-10. This manual is available online at docs.sun.com.

• Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet, by Adrian Cockroft, 1998, Prentice Hall.

• Solaris Internals: Core Kernel Architecture, by Jim Mauro and Richard McDougall, 2000, Prentice Hall.

• Resource Management, by Richard McDougall, Adrian Cockcroft, Evert Hoogendoorn, Enrique Vargas, Tom Bialaski, and Everet Hoogendoorn, 1999, Prentice Hall.