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.

Course Content:

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