Advanced Solaris System Administration

Course Description

This four-day hands-on course prepares students for second of two exams needed in order to become an Oracle Certified Expert on Solaris, while covering advanced topics common in administering a Solaris system.

Course Objectives

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Install Solaris
• Monitor network traffic
• Configure network client services
• Mount disks via NFS
• Add swap space to their system
• Manage core files and crash dumps
• Add, configure, and remove logical volumes
• Explain role based access control
• Enable system logging
• Work with Service Management Facility
• Understand and troubleshoot the boot process
• Configure zones
• Use JumpStart

Course Benefits

Students will increase their productivity by learning the tools and techniques needed to efficiently and effectively administer a Solaris system and be prepared to take the second of two exams needed in order to become an Oracle Certified Expert on Solaris.

Who Should Attend

This course is valuable for all computer professionals involved with Solaris, especially for those who are acquiring system administration responsibilities on a Solaris system, and for those interested in passing the second of two exams needed in order to become an Oracle Certified Expert on Solaris.

Prerequisite

To ensure your success, we recommend you first take either our Solaris System Administration course or have the equivalent knowledge. Familiarity with Web browsers, the vi editor, and Solaris command line interface is assumed.

Method Of Instruction

Lecture, demonstrations, questions and answers, and numerous hands-on exercises.

Hands-on Exercises

Throughout this course, students perform a series of extensive hands-on exercises including:

• Monitoring packets
• Working with NIS
• Setting up naming services
• DNS configuration
• Adding swap space
• Connecting via NFS
• Start and stop the Automount service
• Create a profile and a role
• Configure log files
• Configure a zone
• Delete a non-global zone
• Install Solaris with JumpStart

Course Outline

Chapter 1: Solaris Network Environment

• TCP/IP
• OSI Model
• Network connectivity devices
• Network addressing
• Network packets
• Configuring and managing IP network interface

Chapter 2: Naming Services

• /etc/nsswitch.conf
• NIS Clients
• NIS Server
• NIS+
• DNS
• LDAP
• Naming Service Cache Daemon
• The getent command

Chapter 3: Virtual File Systems

• Understanding virtual memory
• Managing swap space
• AutoFS
• NFS
• Managing core files

Chapter 4: Storage Volumes

• RAID
• SVM concepts
• Logical volumes
• Creating state databases and mirrors
• Snapshot

Chapter 5: Role Based Access Control

• Roles
• Rights
• Authorization
• RBAC configuration files
• Assigning roles to users
• Creating a profile

Chapter 6: Logging

• Sytem logs
• The logger command
• The syslog.conf file
• Facilities and levels
• Log rotation
• Using logs to enhance security

Chapter 7: Advanced Installation

• JumpStart
• Flash Archives
• Booting and Installing with PXE
• Zones