The Zone Manager

Overview

The purpose of this project is to simplify Solaris zones creation and management down to a single non-interactive command line tool. The Zone Manager (zonemgr) should enable administrators to do 90% of zone creation and management. Note however, that this project is in NO WAY intended to replace the existing zonecfg/zoneadm commands but rather to supplement them.

The main Zone Manager information can be found at the OpenSolaris Zone Manager Project page at http://opensolaris.org/os/project/zonemgr/

Project Goals

• Simplify zones creation
• Simplify zones management
• Incorporate Solaris features into zone creation/management such as resource controls, minimization, service lockdown,…
• Incorporate external features such as network package repository based package installation.

This project will continue so long as there is sufficient interest to keep it around.

Status

• Version 1.8.1 is currently in beta.
• Version 1.8 is currently available for general use.
• Version 1.7 is currently available but depreciated.

Download

You can download zonemgr by clicking the respective version below.

• zonemgr 1.8.1 (Beta)
• zonemgr 1.8 (Latest)
• zonemgr 1.7 (Depriciated)

Documentation

You can run zonemgr with the -h option to view the help information.

Alternatively, you can see the version specific help pages here:

• zonemgr 1.8
• zonemgr 1.7

Changelog

Click here to view the version changelog for the Zone Manager.

Requests for Feature Enhancements

Support

Although the intent of this project is to simplify zones management, it is not a supported part of Solaris. Thus the Zone Manager and its associated scripts are NOT in any way supported. However, best effort is made by the contributors to address bugs as soon as possible.

Requests for Feature Enhancements

If you think that you have a great idea for a future feature, submit it through the RFE sumission form.

You can see outstanding feature request by clicking here.

Contributions and Reporting Bugs

If you think that you have found a bug or a fix to a bug, please submit them through the bug sumission form.

You can also discuss issues or feature requests on the Zones-Discuss community.

Documents and Presentations

Zone Manager presentation [ StarOffice | pdf ]

Other Projects

Click here to see the RedHat/Fedora Network Profile Manager.