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Solaris 10 Update for Experienced Solaris
Administrators
This workshop is intended for Solaris
Administrators who wish to quickly get up to speed with the new
features of Solaris 10. It covers all the major new facilities, in a
workshop environment, providing extensive hands-on practicals.
The notes also contain detailed information of significant changes
provided by Solaris 8 and 9 releases, and these features will be
explained in extended sessions if students require. This course is
similar to Sun's Solaris 10 New Features for Experienced Solaris
System Administrators (SA-225-S10) but considerably less expensive.
Our Solaris courses are suitable training
for Solaris Certification
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| COURSE CODE |
S10UP |
TUTORS |
Mick Hosegood email |
| DURATION |
4 days |
VENUE |
NewarkTraining Centre and Harwell** |
| PRICE |
£1100 plus
VAT |
BOOKING CONTACT |
Mick
Hosegood email |
| EXPERIENCE LEVEL |
Intermediate |
TECHNICAL CONTACT |
Mick
Hosegood email |
*see note at bottom for special savings!
for pricing for a course run especially for your organisation, please
use our worksheet **Also available on your site for groups of four to
ten.
COURSE DATES 2007
June 2008
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RESOURCE: Each student will have
exclusive use of a Sun workstation for the duration of the course. Each
student will be provided with a full set of training notes relating to
the course.
PREREQUISITES: This course is only
suitable for experienced Solaris administrators. Please call if in
doubt.
FOLLOW UPS: First Alternative offers
an extensive range of Solaris courses. A natural follow-up to this
course would be the Solaris Utilities and Shell
Programming course
(suitable for those who wish to become proficient with Solaris
utilities and Bourne/Korn shell programming) course. 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. Solaris
administrators would also find our Perl Programming courses to be of
benefit.
Linux courses are also available, from
Introduction to Linux through to Linux Advanced System Administration.
PRACTICALS / TAKEAWAYS: Each student
leaves the course with their own set of training
notes for the material covered; around 120 pages per day of training.
| Every student who attends this course
at our training centres will be issued with a signed certificate
of course completion, which we will be happy to "authenticate" upon
future request. On this course, we hand out a number of quick reference
sheets to each student on subjects such as vi and Unix commands. |
| The examples from this course are
available (via the internet) to students who have attended. |
SOFTWARE VERSIONS: This course is
suitable for Solaris 10. We currently use Update 5 from May 2008.
COURSE PROFILES: During the course,
the student will learn from many practical examples written for this
course and supplied in the manual. For ease of use during and after the
course, we have provided these examples online.
TOPICS COVERED ON THE COURSE
Purpose of zones; how zones exist within a standard Solaris 10 system;
creating
a zone (including a Linux zone on Solaris x86); zone configuration,
including mapping of disk and network
resources;
pre-configuration of zones with the sysidcfg file; controlling zones
(booting,
halting, etc); renaming, relocating and cloning zones; zone
limitations; zone resource capping and
resource pools (prctl, rcapd, etc.); assigning dedicated or shared
network interfaces; patches, software installations
and packages within zones; zones FAQ; how zones
are likely to be developed; example zone creation script.
Password history checking and nobody account changes; Account lockout;
Least Privilege
and the ppriv command; least privilege and RBAC (Role-Based Access
control) for
assigning administrative privileges to users.
- File System Features including ZFS
Changes to UFS (multi-terabyte FS, devfs, logging, etc.); the fsstat
command; the new ZFS
(Zettabyte File System); Creating and
managing storage pools with zpool; adding new devices to a storage
pool; creating mirror, RAID Z and RAIDZ2 devices; offlining and
replacing pool
components; the creation and use of Hot Spares; ZFS command history;
creating and managing
file
systems with zfs; assigning properties such as quotas and NFS sharing
to ZFS file systems; creating snapshots and clones of filesystems;
exporting and importing storage pools; using zfs send and receive (for
backup and restore);
the new ACL model (NFS v4) as used within ZFS filesystems; emulated
volumes; using ZFS within a zone; troubleshooting.
- Fault and Service Management
The Fault Management Architecture (FMA) - overview; the Service
Management Facility (SMF); changes to /etc/inittab; the svc.startd
process; the
svc.configd process; using svcs to list and obtain information about
services; using svcadm to
control system services; using svccfg to import, export and
modify service
definitions (manifests); examination of the /var/svc and /lib/svc
directories;
how SMF attempts to restart failed services; using SMF facilities to
trace services failures;
using svccfg to modify service properties; adding services (creating
scripts, XML files, etc); the use of legacy
scripts under SMF; SMF repositories and recovery; SMF milestones
compared to traditional run levels; how inetd services
are affected; the netservices, inetconv and inetadm commands; enabling
TCP Wrappers using inetadm; the fmd fault manager daemon, and how
hardware faults are
reported and handled.
dtrace is a facility for monitoring low-level system activity, for
fault tracing and performance management. This
section will introduce administrators to the fundamentals of dtrace,
with lots of example dtrace programs to try out. Students are not
expected to
have a formal programming background. dtrace is not a part of the
Solaris certified Administrator curriculum.
- Internet Protocol features in Solaris 10
Solaris 10 includes a number of enhancements (mostly transparent to the
administrator) in the area of IP networking. These will be expained,
with
practical examples where possible,including Quality of Service (IPQoS),
Performance improvements (Fireengine project), MDT multi-data
transmission (Solaris 9 in fact), and others.
Solaris 10 introduces a new version of the Network File System
protocol, which includes a number of changes and new features,
including a stateful architecture.
This section will cover NFS V4 changes, plus changes to the auotfs
facility.
The new Solaris OS Cryptographic Framework, a facility for developers
to ease the use of encryption, signing, random number generation and so
on; availability of hardware encryption accelerators; the Solaris IP
Filter firewall facilities, covering the creation of firewall rules,
enabling the firewall filter, changing rules, reporting and monitoring.
An overview of the Trusted Solaris extensions now included with Solaris
10.
- Other Changes to Networking
The System Management Agent (SMA) (an SNMP agent that is based on an
open source project, Net-SNMP at http://www.net-snmp.org.); DHCP under
Solaris 10; routing changes, including the new routeadm and dladm
commands.
- Solaris 10 OS Installation
Although the basic installation mechanisms of Solaris 10 will be
familiar to experienced administrators there will be a number of
changes of which they
should be made aware, including installation media; the ability to
configure multiple network interfaces; modify hard disk partitions
using a VTOC; specify filesys mirror and patch keywords in a
Jumpstart
profile; minor changes to Jumpstart and flash archives; using the WAN
boot facility for flash installs (i.e. building from a web server);
the new web patching
and update facility SunUpdate.
- Significant Solaris changes in recent history
Not all those coming to Solaris 10 will have experience in intermediate
versions, so this section documents (and will cover if required)
significant changes in recent versions, such
as IP Multipathing; Flash Archive creation and use in Solaris
installations; Solaris Volume Manager,
the integrated advanced disk management facility, previously known as
Online: DiskSuite.
This section will also review the Solaris Management Console in its
latest incarnation, showing how to modify it to add servers, make it
Name Service aware,
and add legacy applications. It will also show the working of RBAC
(Role Based Access
Control), a feature combined in SMC but prevalent throughout the
Solaris
system.
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