Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators
Course
Online
Description
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Type
Course
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Methodology
Online
This course presents the essential differences between administrating Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 and the Solaris 10 Operating System. The course also covers skills and tasks that are new or amended in Solaris 10.
Reviews
Subjects
- Solaris
- IT
- Systems
Course programme
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- Identify features of the Service Management Facility (SMF)
- Manage services with various SMF commands
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Implement patch management using the Sun Update Connection Services
- Manage patches with the Sun Update Manager application and the smpatch command
- Describe the Flash installation feature
- Create a Flash archive
- Use a Flash archive for installation
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Booting from an INTEL System with GRUB
- Booting Procedures with GRUB
- GRUB Files
- Modifying the Boot Behaviour
Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators