Solaris System Administration - Part 2

Audience

This course is for experienced Solaris system administrators or delegates who have recently attended the Solaris 10 System Administration Part 1 course and require to administer a SPARC, AMD64 or x86 based Solaris server.

Prerequisites

Attendees should have a good basic understanding of Solaris system administration, gained through the Solaris System Administration Part 1 course, and at least three months practical experience.

Duration

4 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

The Solaris 10 System Administration Part 2 course is for users who have attended the Solaris System Administration Part 1 course and require to administer a Solaris based server. Delegate will learn how to install Solaris on the server, administer devices, set-up basic networking, NFS, NIS and configure a JumpStart server. On completion of the course, delegates will have covered all topics essential for the Sun Certified Solaris Administrator Part 2 exam.

Course Content

Solaris Network Environment
network models; Ethernet; FDDI; hardware; interfaces; network addressing; network services

Virtual Filesystems
Sizing, setting up & monitoring swap; core file & crash dump configuration

Managing Storage Volumes
RAID overview;Solaris Volume Manager; Metadisk configuration; Mirroring root discs; Extending UFS filesystems

System Messaging
syslog & system logger facilities

Solaris Zones and Containers
Zone types, configuration, installing zones, booting zones, managing zone resources

System Security
System & file access; audits; network security; superuser access

The Z (Zettabyte) File System (ZFS)
ZFS pools & file systems, RAID configurations, snapshots, cloning

The Network File System
Servers & clients; setting up NFS, mounting remote filesystems; logging

AutoFS
AutoFS direct & indirect maps; AutoFS & home directories

Configure Name Service Clients
DNS; NIS; NIS+; LDAP

Role Based Access Control
Authorisations, execution profiles, roles, Least Privilege Feature maps

Custom JumpStart
Boot, install & configuration server; rules, class & sysidcfg files begin / finish scripts

Flash Archives
Creating & installing flash archives

Solaris Live Upgrade
Creating Alternate Boot Environment; updating & patching ABE; activating ABE