Solaris 10 Advanced Systems Administration — A 3-Day Course

 Open Public Course Closed In-House Course

Synopsis

This three-day course is designed to cover the more technically complex and difficult tasks confronting the Solaris/UNIX system and network administrator. All topics will be accompanied by extensive hands-on, with a minimum ratio of three fully-equipped Sun workstations between two students. There will be ample time to put forward your own topics for discussion and analysis.

This course, combined with the Solaris 10 Systems Administartion Part 2 course, is comparable with Sun's SA-202-S10 (now PK-SA-202A-S10) course, and leads to the Solaris Certified Administrator Part 2 exam. Compared by cost, our combined courses are 34% less than Sun.

Our Solaris courses are suitable training for Solaris Certification

This course is based on Solaris 10 (Solaris 2.10, Update 3), but it is also suitable for customers using Solaris 7, 8 and 9

Prerequisites

Attendees must have experience of Solaris administration and networking up to the level taught in the Solaris 10 System Administration Part 1 and Solaris 10 System Administration Part 2 courses.

Follow-up

There are several course which would be of further benefit to systems and network administrators. If you are writing scripts, our Perl Programming and / or Solaris Utilities and Shell Programming course may be of great interest to you, for example. For those involved in administrating networks, our Solaris 10 Network Administration course would be ideal, and leads to the Solaris Certified Network Administrator CX-310-302 exam.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Contents

Solaris Management Console

• Installation
• Configuration of extra toolboxes for use with multiple servers using the toolbox editor

Swap Management and Configuration

• Virtual memory
• Examining a machine's current swap allocation
• Creating new swap slices and files
• Adding swap details to /etc/vfstab

Crash dumps and core files

• What are they?
• How to manage and restrict

Disk quotas

• Enabling quotas
• Setting quota limits and time limits;
• Quota reporting
• Remote server quotas

Solaris Volume Manager (SVM)and RAID disks

• Describe RAID levels
• Describe the features of SVM
• Implement SVM on a Solaris system
• The metadevice state databases
• Creating concatenated and striped metadevices.
• Creating and adding mirrors
• Removing mirrors
• Taking mirrors off-line
• UFS logging
• Hot Spares
• Expanding file systems with growfs
• Summary of files and commands
• Using the GUI to perform SVM tasks and monitor SVM status

Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

• RBAC facilities
• Applying rights and roles to users
• Using the GUI smc to manage RBAC
• RBAC files and directories

X Windows Technology Explained

• X Windows background and constituent parts
• X windows and the network
• Adding an X login capability to the network (xdm and setup files) CDE and dtlogin
• Configuring a Chooser

Solaris Zones

• Features of Solaris zones
• The uses for zone partitioning
• Configure, install and boot zones
• Pre-configuring zone installation information
• Adding additional directories to an existing zone
• Controlling zone resource limitations
• Moving, renaming, cloning and migrating zones
• Zone FAQ

System Messaging and Log Management

• System logging (syslogd) operation
• The syslog.conf configuration file directives
• Using the logger command to add messages to logs
• Using the smc log viewer
• Log file management with crontab

Accounting Mechanisms

• Login accounting - viewing data, analysis utilities
• Process accounting - enabling, examining and analysing data

Automatic Solaris Installation (Jumpstart)

• Jump Start Overview
• Build servers
• Copying Solaris to disk
• Creating rules and profiles for automatic build
• Booting and building from the network interactively and automatically
• Includes a full practical automatic build

Flash Installs

• Overview
• Creating a Flash archive
• Modify the JumpStart files to use a flash archive for installation
• Modifying flash installs
• Performing a flash install

Kernel Configuration Parameters

• What parameters are available to configure
• Examining current kernel parameters Enforce new values
• Using utilities such as vmstat, sar, etc to monitor and analyse system activity

NOTE: Sun have removed the Jumpstart feature from their Part 2 course and instead provide some additional DIY materials, but we still cover it in full, including Flash installs, in the classroom.