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Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators

Course Code: SFT
Day(s): 5
Price: £1,695.00 (ex. VAT)

Overview 

This course presents the essential differences between administrating Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 and the Solaris 10 Operating Systems. The course covers skills and tasks that are new or are changed in Solaris 10 from Solaris 8 and 9. The course also covers tasks in Solaris 10 that replace previous Solaris tasks.
This hands-on course is intended to provide experienced Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 systems administrators with practical experience in carrying out similar or related tasks they are currently managing but on a Solaris 10 system.


Pre-Requisites
  • Recent experience administering Solaris 8 or Solaris 9.
  • Experience or knowledge of managing disk partitions and UFS file systems
  • Managing packages and patches from the command line
  • Jumpstart installation and basic management of disk volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager (SVM).


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    This Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators course is aimed at IT staff who need to understand the essential differences in carrying out their current tasks in a Solaris 10 environment.

    • Administer services with the Service Management Facility
    • Control Log file rotation
    • Create RAID volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager
    • Create and manage ZFS file systems
    • Manage Flash Archives for installation
    • Install updates with the Live Upgrade feature
    • Configure various security features

    Session 1: SERVICE MANAGEMENT FACILITY (SMF)

    • Identify features of the Service Management Facility (SMF)
    • Manage services with various SMF commands

    Session 2: DISK AND FILE MANAGEMENT

    • Identify changes to the format command
    • Implement EFI disk labels
    • Identify changes to the behaviour of the devfsadm command
    • Identify new pseudo file systems
    • Describe features of the Multiterabyte UFS
    • Describe changes related to logging in UFS
    • Display file activity with fsstat
    • Describe the effect of the /etc/inet/ipnodes file on the loghost variable for syslog
    • Log file rotation

    Session 3: SOLARIS VOLUME MANAGER (SVM)

    • Describe Solaris Volume Manager Software RAID concepts
    • Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
    • Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for a file system including root
    • Backup a mirrored volume
    • Build a RAID-5 volume
    • Manage Hot Spares

    Session 4: ZFS

    • Basic Description
    • Requirements
    • Main Features
    • The ZFS Tools
    • Managing ZFS Pools with zpool
    • Managing ZFS File Systems with zfs
    • Installing a ZFS root File System

    Session 5: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

    • State the installation requirements for the Solaris 10 OS
    • Describe additional software groups introduced in the Solaris 10 OS
    • Describe differences in Jumpstart Server configuration
    • Describe WAN boot installation
    • Describe how signed packages and patches are implemented
    • Describe related options with pkgadd and patchadd

    Session 6: SUN CONNECTION SERVICES AND PATCH MANAGEMENT

    • Implement patch management using the Sun Update Connection Services
    • Manage patches with the Sun Update Manager application and the smpatch command

    Session 7: MANAGING FLASH ARCHIVES

    • Describe the Flash installation feature
    • Create a Flash archive
    • Use a Flash archive for installation

    Session 8: USING LIVE UPGRADE

    • Create an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
    • Create a differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
    • Create an empty alternative boot environment for updating with a Flash Archive
    • Extend a base boot environment with a differential flash archive

    Session 9: USER MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY

    • Manage users and groups with the Solaris Management Console (SMC)
    • Manage users and groups with SMC commands
    • Manage password generation
    • Manage user logins for failed attempts

    Session 10: NETWORKING SERVICES

    • Describe differences in managing the DNS (server and client) and LDAP (client) Naming Services
    • Describe the differences in the Network File System (NFS)
    • Describe the enhancements to Network File System version 4
    • Describe changes to managing AutoFS

    Session 11: MISCELLANEOUS FEATURES

    • Identify changes in printing services
    • Desktop Printer Management Tool
    • Describe the differences in the coreadm command from Solaris 10
    • Describe MPSS (Multiple Page Size Support)
    • System Administration with Solaris Management Console (SMC)
    • System Administration with Webmin

    Session 12: ZONES

    • Basic Description
    • Main Features and Benefits
    • Zone Configuration Settings and Characteristics
    • Creating Zones (zonecfg, zoneadm, zlogin)
    • Accessing Zones
    • Managing the Zone State
    • Zone Migration
    • Zone System Processes

    Session 13: GRUB

    • Booting from an INTEL System with GRUB
    • Booting Procedures with GRUB
    • GRUB Files
    • Modifying the Boot Behaviour
    • SASP, Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools
    • APH, Apache Web Server
    • OSP, Oracle SQL
    • ORO, Oracle Overview Seminar

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