Make the Transition to the Solaris 10 Operating System

The Make the Transition to the Solaris 10 Operating System course presents the essential differences between the Solaris 8, Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 Operating Systems. The course covers skills and tasks that are new or are changed in Solaris 10. The course also covers tasks in Solaris 10 that replace previous Solaris tasks. This course is intended to provide experienced Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 systems administrators with practical experience administering Solaris 10 through hands-on practice and focuses on many of the objectives necessary to prepare them to take the Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 10 Operating System Upgrade Exam (CX-310-203).

Students who can benefit from this course:

• Experienced Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Systems Administrators who need to understand the essential differences in Solaris 10

Audience
Course Topics Introducing the Solaris OS Directory Hierarchy

• Identify system directory changes

Managing Local Disk Devices

• Identify changes to the format command
• Implement EFI disk labels
• Explain Extended Volume Table of Contents (VTOC)
• Identify changes to the behavior of the devfsadm command

Describing Network Basics

• Describe the network interface configuration changes.

Managing the Solaris OS File System

• Identify changes related to pseudo file systems
• Describe features of the Multiterabyte UFS
• Describe changes related to logging in UFS
• Describe the default behavior and output of the mount command with respect to logging in the UFS
• Describe the meaning of the devices flag of the mount command

ZFS File System Introduction

• Describe the Solaris ZFS file system
• Understand ZFS terminology
• Create new ZFS pools and file systems
• Modify ZFS file system properties
• Destroy ZFS pools and file systems
• Work with ZFS snapshots and clones

Introducing the Fundamentals of Package and Patch Administration

• Describe the fundamentals of package administration
• Administer packages using the command-line interface
• Describe patch administration fundamentals
• Describe patch administration best practices
• Obtain patches using SunSolve
• Install and remove patches
• Install recommended patch clusters
• Implement patch management using the smpatch command

Managing Services With the Service Management Facility

• Describe Service Management Facility features
• Compare run levels and SMF milestones
• Use SMF administrative commands

Performing User Administration

• Describe the changes in user administration between Solaris 8, 9, and 10
• Perform user installations, modifications, and deletions with new tools and commands

Installing the Solaris OS

• Describe the installation methods available for the Solaris 10 OS
• State the installation requirements for the Solaris 10 OS
• Describe additional software groups introduced in the Solaris 10 OS

Managing CrashDumps, Core Files and Paging

• - Describe the differences in the coreadm command from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10
• Describe Multiple Page Size Support (MPSS)

Configuring Network File System

• Describe the differences in the Network File System in Solaris 8, 9 and 10
• Describe the enhancements to Network File System version 4

Configuring AutoFS

• Describe new map entries with AutoFS

Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software

• Describe Solaris Volume Manager software concepts
• Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
• Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for the root (/) file system

Controlling Accessand Configuring System Messaging

• Describe the effect of the /etc/inet/ipnodes file on the loghost variable
• Describe generic log rotation

Naming Services

• The name service switch file
• The LDAP name service

Configuring the Custom JumpStart Procedure

• Describe the differences in boot services
• Describe the differences in identification services
• Describe the differences in configuration services
• Describe the differences in installation services
• Set up JumpStart software configuration alternatives
• Set up JumpStart to create a ZFS mirrored root pool

Using Live Upgrade

• - Describe the benefits of using Live Upgrade
• - Describe the Solaris Live Upgrade process
• - Identify the Solaris Live Upgrade commands
• - Create an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
• - Create a differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
• - Modify the state of the new boot environment
• - Extend a base boot environment with a differential flash archive
• - Use Live Upgrade to patch a system

Course Objectives

• Administer the Service Management Facility
• Install the Solaris 10 OS
• Install Software in the Solaris 10 OS
• Perform user and security administration in the Solaris 10 OS
• Manage processes, storage volumes, core dumps, and virtual file systems in the Solaris 10 OS
• Describe networking basic in the Solaris 10 OS
• Control system access in the Solaris 10 OS
• Configure system messaging in the Solaris 10 OS
• Set up naming services in the Solaris 10 OS