Command reference comparison
| What are you trying to do? | Solaris | AIX | HP-UX |
| Specify order of name server resolution | /etc/nsswitch.conf | /etc/netsvc.conf | etc/nsswitch.conf |
| Configure networking | /etc/nodename, /etc/netmasks, etc/defaultrouter, ifconfig | recommendation is to use SMIT, because ifconfig does not save changes, lsattr | set_parms - initial, netconf file, ioscan |
| Understand available file systems | ufs, zfs | jfs, jfs2 | hfs, VxFS |
| Add space to file systems | growfs | chfs | extendfs |
| Look at character-based admin GUI | None. Admintool was retired years ago. SMC (similar to AIX's WebSM) is the GUI | SMIT, smitty, WebSM | SAM |
| Examine hardware changes | prtconf | lscfg, lsattr, prtconf | ioscan, dmesg |
| View swap space | swap | lsps | swapinfo |
| Examine file system info | /etc/vfstab | /etc/file systems | /etc/fstab |
| Share NFS | share | exportfs | exportfs |
| Check software and/or filesets | pkginfo, pkgchk | lslpp, lssrc | swlist |
| Install software | pkgadd | smit install | swinstall |
| Check error logs | prtdiag | errpt | dmesg |
| Tune the kernel | prtctl and /etc/system | vmo, ioo, no, schedo, nfso, chdev | kctune |
| start/stop services | Svcadm, svcs | lssrc, stopsrc, startsrc | Usually initiated by scripts from init.d I.E. for network -- /etc/init.d/net start |
| Install devices | drvconfig | cfgmgr | insf |
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