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Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators Course Overview

This course presents the essential differences between administrating Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 and the Solaris 10 Operating Systems. The course covers skills and tasks that are new or are changed in Solaris 10 from Solaris 8 and 9. The course also covers tasks in Solaris 10 that replace previous Solaris tasks.

This hands-on course is intended to provide experienced Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 systems administrators with practical experience in carrying out similar or related tasks they are currently managing but on a Solaris 10 system.

Skills Gained

The delegate will practice:

Administer services with the Service Management Facility
Control Log file rotation
Create RAID volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager
Create and manage ZFS file systems
Manage Flash Archives for installation
Install updates with the Live Upgrade feature
Configure various security features

Who will the Course Benefit?

This Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators course is aimed at IT staff who need to understand the essential differences in carrying out their current tasks in a Solaris 10 environment.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course the delegate should be able to administer services with the Service Management Facility, describe features of Multiterabyte UFS, manage patches with the Sun Update Connection Services, configure various security features, create RAID volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager, create and manage ZFS file systems, control Log file rotation, manage Flash Archives for installation, install updates with the Live Upgrade feature and describe other differences between Solaris 10 and older Solaris versions.

Requirements

Recent experience administering Solaris 8 or Solaris 9. Experience or knowledge of managing disk partitions and UFS file systems, managing packages and patches from the command line, Jumpstart installation and basic management of disk volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager (SVM).

Follow-On Courses

NOTE: Course technical content is subject to change without notice.

Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

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

Session 1: SERVICE MANAGEMENT FACILITY (SMF)

Identify features of the Service Management Facility (SMF)
Manage services with various SMF commands

Session 2: DISK AND FILE MANAGEMENT

Identify changes to the format command
Implement EFI disk labels
Identify changes to the behaviour of the devfsadm command
Identify new pseudo file systems
Describe features of the Multiterabyte UFS
Describe changes related to logging in UFS
Display file activity with fsstat
Describe the effect of the /etc/inet/ipnodes file on the loghost variable for syslog
Log file rotation

Session 3: SOLARIS VOLUME MANAGER (SVM)

Describe Solaris Volume Manager Software RAID concepts
Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for a file system including root
Backup a mirrored volume
Build a RAID-5 volume
Manage Hot Spares

Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 4: ZFS

Basic Description
Requirements
Main Features
The ZFS Tools
Managing ZFS Pools with zpool
Managing ZFS File Systems with zfs
Installing a ZFS root File System

Session 5: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

State the installation requirements for the Solaris 10 OS
Describe additional software groups introduced in the Solaris 10 OS
Describe differences in Jumpstart Server configuration
Describe WAN boot installation
Describe how signed packages and patches are implemented
Describe related options with pkgadd and patchadd

Session 6: SUN CONNECTION SERVICES AND PATCH MANAGEMENT

Implement patch management using the Sun Update Connection Services
Manage patches with the Sun Update Manager application and the smpatch command

Session 7: MANAGING FLASH ARCHIVES

Describe the Flash installation feature
Create a Flash archive
Use a Flash archive for installation

Session 8: USING LIVE UPGRADE

Create an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
Create a differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
Create an empty alternative boot environment for updating with a Flash Archive
Extend a base boot environment with a differential flash archive

Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 9: USER MANAGEMENT AND SECURITY

Manage users and groups with the Solaris Management Console (SMC)
Manage users and groups with SMC commands
Manage password generation
Manage user logins for failed attempts

Session 10: NETWORKING SERVICES

Describe differences in managing the DNS (server and client) and LDAP (client) Naming Services
Describe the differences in the Network File System (NFS)
Describe the enhancements to Network File System version 4
Describe changes to managing AutoFS