Solaris 10 Systems Administration Part 2

For those involved in administrating networks, our Solaris 10 Network Administration course may be of interest, and leads to the Solaris Certified Network Administrator CX-310-302 exam.

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

• DNS Overview
• DNS Server and Client Setup
• NIS
• NIS Servers and Clients
• Setting up NIS Servers and Clients
• NIS+ Overview
• LDAP Overview and Setting up an LDAP Client
• The Name Service Switch Configuration Files
• Template nsswitch Files
• Displaying Information From the Name Server
• Name Service Cache Daemon
• Reference for Naming Services
• Exercise: Setting up an NIS server and client

• Network File System (NFS)
• NFS Terminology
• NFS Server
• NFS Client
• NFS Server Configuration
• /etc/dfs/dfstab File
• NFS Server Configuration - SMC
• Other NFS Commands
• NFS Client Configuration
• The mount Command
• Mounting a Local Resource
• Mounting a Remote Resource
• Responding to server failure - mount options
• Multiple Hosts
• Unmounting a Resource
• NFS Client Configuration - SMC
• Troubleshooting NFS
• Cache File System (Cachefs)
• Cachefs Terminology
• Creating a Cache File System
• Cachefs Statistics and Consistency
• Cachefs Logging
• Removing Cache File System
• NFS Logging - user access
• Exercise: Setting up an NFS server and client

• Automount Utility
• Automount Maps
• Registering Changes for Automount
• automount -v
• Exercise: Setting up an automount client

• Disk Management and File System Review
• RAID Technology and Volumes
• RAID Modes
• SVM Tools
• Volume Management Operations
• State Database Replicas
• Creating State Database Replicas
• Creating a Disk Concatenation
• SVM Commands and Files
• Creating State Database Replicas - the metadb command
• metadevices
• metstat command
• Creating a Concatenation of two disk slices
• Creating and Managing Mirrors
• Creating File Systems on Volumes
• Deleting a Metadevice
• Dynamically Growing Existing File Systems
• Mirroring Volumes and backup of Mirrors
• Exercises:
• • Creating a database and concatenation volume
  • Growing a file system

• Swap Space
• Configuring Swap Space
• Adding a Swap File on an Existing File System
• Disabling Swap Space
• Exercise: Setting up an extra swap area

• Interactive Installation Review
• Automatic Installation
• Principles of JumpStart
• Server Setup for JumpStart
• Configuring NIS to Support JumpStart
• Locale
• Ethernet Address
• IP Address and Hostname
• TimeZone
• Netmasks
• Bootparams
• Timehost Alias
• Configuring Non NIS Server for JumpStart
• Configuration Directory
• Rules File
• Class File
• Check Utility
• Install/Boot Server Installation
• setup_install_server Utility
• add_install_client Utility
• Setting up DHCP for Intel clients
• Overview of WAN Boot Installation
• Installing a new Client
• Jumpstart troubleshooting
• Exercise: Setting up a jumpstart server and client

• Flash Archive Definition
• Creating a Flash Archive
• Restoring a Flash Archive
• Specifying the Location of the Flash Archive to be Restored
• Jumpstart Installation Considerations
• Displaying Flash Archive Information

• Live Upgrade description
• Basic procedures
• lucreate and luupdate commands
• Live Upgrade Example

• Dump File Definition
• System Crash Dumps
• Displaying the System Crash Dump Configuration
• Modifying the System Crash Dump Configuration
• Core Dumps
• Displaying the Core Dump Configuration
• Modifying the Core Dump Configuration
• Exercises:
• • Displaying the system crash dump configuration
  • Displaying and setting the core dump configuration

• syslog Configuration
• The /etc/syslog.conf Configuration File
• Facility
• Security Level
• Action
• The M4 Utility
• Editing the syslog.conf File
• Logging Telnet, FTP and other Networking Daemon
• The SMC Log Viewer
• Testing syslogd Logging

• Traditional Unix Security vs RBAC
• The RBAC Security Model
• Main Attributes and Associated Files
• Linking Attributes and their Files together
• Attribute File Formats
• Configuring RBAC Examples
• Using SMC in the RBAC Environment
• Exercise: Defining & testing a file system's management role

• Basic Description
• Main Features and Benefits
• Zone Configuration Settings and Characteristics
• Creating Zones
• User Access to Zones
• Managing the Zone State
• Zone System Processes
• Exercise: Configuring and enabling a Zone