Solaris 11 Systems Administration Part 2

Follow-on Courses

Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools

Course Introduction

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

Configuring the Image Packaging System IPS

• Configuring a local IPS repository
• Configuring the repository server
• Configuring access from network clients to a local IP repository
• Installing signed packages
• Publisher properties for signed packages
• Managing package publishers
• Managing multiple boot environments
• Exercise

Installing Solaris 11 Using the Automated Installer

• Introduction to the Automated Installer (AI)
• Obtaining the AI
• Setting up the requirements for the AI
• Creating the installation service
• Testing the first client
• Tailoring AI to the requirements of the install client
• Installation of software on the client
• Specifying repositories
• Specifying packages to install
• Exercise

Configuring SMF

• SMF Review
• Troubleshooting Services
• State Notification
• SMF Properties
• Listing Properties
• Setting Properties
• Network Properties
• Configuring a new SMF Service
• Exercise

Virtual Networks

• What is a Virtual Network?
• Internal Virtual Networks
• External Virtual Networks
• Creating and Configuring a Virtual Network Device
• Post Configuration Procedures
• Exercise

Zones

• Basic Description
• Main Features and Benefits
• Zone Configuration Settings and Characteristics
• Creating Zones
• Accessing Zones
• Managing the Zone State
• Zone System Processes
• Exercise

Configuring Networks And Network Failovers

• Configuring systems on a local network
• Managing the network configuration profiles
• Manual mode network configuration
• Configuring link aggregations
• Configuring IP multipathing (IPMP)
• Exercise

ZFS AND Data Storage

• ZFS Data Protection
• ZFS RAID Modes
• Backup and Recovery with Snapshots
• Managing Disk Space with ZFS Properties
• Exercise

Role Based Access Control (RBAC)

• Traditional UNIX security vs RBAC
• The RBAC security model
• Associated files and attributes
• Linking Attributes and their files together
• Attribute file formats
• Configuring RBAC: commands and files
• Exercise

Auditing

• What events create audit records
• Audit plugins
• Auditing terminology
• Main auditing commands
• Auditing with Solaris Zones
• Determining what to audit
• Displaying audit service settings
• Changing the preselect audit classes
• Assigning space for the audit trail
• Viewing the audit trail
• Displaying kernel audit statistics
• Exercise

SYSLOG

• The /etc/syslog.conf Configuration File
• The M4 Utility
• Editing the syslog.conf File
• Testing syslogd Logging
• Exercise

Dump File Configuration

• 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
• Exercise

Monitoring and Managing Performance

• Monitoring Performance Procedures
• Monitoring System Wide Resources
• The sar, vmstat and iostat commands
• Monitoring Processes Resources
• The ps, prstat and top Commands
• Responding to Resource problems
• Exercise

Process Priorities and Classes

• Process Scheduling
• Scheduling Classes
• Listing Classes and Priority Ranges
• Managing Classes and Priorities
• The dispadmin command
• The priocntl command
• Exercise