System Administration for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS Part 2 NEW

This System Administration for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS, Part 2 course helps you gain expertise in the advanced system administration concepts of Oracle Solaris 10. You'll get hands-on experience working with more complex and integrated administration concepts, while building upon the System Administration for the Oracle Solaris 10 Part 1 course.

Learn To:

• Work with swap, NFS, RAID, RBAC.
• Configure DNS and LDAP clients.
• Configure zones.
• Execute JumpStart server routines.
• Perform live upgrade.
• Perform expert-level system administration, operation and maintenance.

Benefits To You:

Enable your organization's platforms to work with greater efficiency with the Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System. Benefit from instruction on key features and capabilities which will enable you to perform file and directory management, control the user work environment, archive files and use remote commands.

Prepare for Certification

This course also helps you prepare for Part 2 of the Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator Certified Professional exam. Please note that the hands-on labs offered may involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.

Audience

• System Administrator

Course Topics Managing Swap Space, Core Files and Crash Dumps

• Configuring swap space
• Managing crash dump behavior
• Managing core file behavior

Configuring NFS

• Benefits of NFS
• Fundamentals of the NFS distributed file system
• Managing an NFS server
• Managing an NFS client
• Enabling the NFS server logging
• Troubleshooting NFS errors

Configuring AutoFS

• AutoFS file system fundamentals
• Automount maps

Describing RAID

• Describing RAID concepts

Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software

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

Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

• RBAC fundamentals
• Component interaction within RBAC
• Managing RBAC

Configuring System Messaging

• Fundamentals of the syslog function
• Configuring the /etc/syslog.conf file
• Configuring syslog messaging
• Using Solaris Management Console log viewer

Using Name Services

• Name services concept
• Name service switch file /etc/nsswitch.conf
• Describing name service cache daemon (nscd)
• Getting name service information

Configuring Name Service Clients

• Configuring a DNS client
• Configuring an LDAP client

Introduction to Zones

• Identifying Zone Features
• Describing how and why zone partitioning is used
• Configuring zones
• Installing, booting, moving, migrating, and deleting zones
• Administering packages with zones
• lx Branded Zones

Introduction to LDAP

• LDAP as a naming service
• Basic LDAP concepts and terminology
• Directory Server Enterprise Edition requirements
• Solaris LDAP Client requirements

Configuring JumpStart Installation Using the Oracle Solaris 10

• Describing JumpStart configurations
• Implementing a basic JumpStart server for SPARC® and x86/x64 clients
• Describing booting x86/x64 systems using the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
• DHCP server setup to support x86/x64 JumpStart clients
• JumpStart software configuration alternatives setup
• JumpStart to create a ZFS mirrored root pool
• Troubleshooting JumpStart configurations

Performing Live Upgrade Using the Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System

• Benefits of using Live Upgrade
• Solaris Live Upgrade process
• Solaris Live Upgrade requirements
• Solaris Live Upgrade commands
• Creating an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
• Creating differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
• Modifying the state of the new boot environment
• Use Live Upgrade to patch a system

Course Objectives

• Manage swap configurations
• Manage core dumps
• Configure NFS and AutoFS
• Describe RAID
• Work with ZFS
• Control access and configure system messaging
• Configure role-based access control (RBAC)
• Set up name services
• Work with Zones
• Describe LDAP
• Perform Live Upgrade and Jumpstart installation