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Solaris 10 Systems Administration Part 2
First Alternative
price: £1300 + VAT
Vendor price:
£2325 + VAT
This five-day course is designed to cover
the
essential network and advanced administration tasks confronting today's
Sun network
systems administrators, and is an extension to our Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 1) course
which covers all the basic issues.
This course covers networking
from initial connection through basic commands, security, monitoring
and
up to Network File System (NFS) and the LDAP (Lightweight Directory
Access protocol) name service.
The advanced topics include the Solaris Volume manager, Jumpstart
(automated installs), Zones, and Live Upgrade, all with full hands-on
experience at all stages.
This course is comparable to the Sun SA-202-S10 (now
PK-SA-202A-S10) course
and leads to the Solaris Certified Administrator (Part 2) exam
CX-310-202.
Compared
by price, our courses are 41% less than Sun's.
A further Solaris Network Administration course
is also
avaiulable for those requiring training to Solaris Certified Network
Administrator level.
Our Solaris courses are suitable training
for Solaris Certification
Select here for related courses |
Select here for a list of all courses |
OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
Takes trainees who have completed the Solaris 10 System Administration
(Part 1) course and adds network and advanced administration
knowledge to their
portfolio.
| COURSE CODE |
S2A2 |
TUTORS |
Mick Hosegood email |
| DURATION |
5 days |
VENUE |
Newark (N) Training
Centres ** |
| PRICE |
£1300 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:
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Sep 2011
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Nov
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Jan 2012
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Mar
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Jun
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Sep
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Dec
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| 19-N |
28-N |
23-N |
19-N
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25-N
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24-N
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10-N
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INTENSITY: About 30% of the course is
practicals, and 70% lectures.
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, and quick reference cards to assist with file editing and
Unix commands.
PREREQUISITES: Knowledge of Solaris
up to a level taught in our Introduction
to Solaris and Solaris 10
System Administration (Part 1) courses is important. Please call if
you require any advice.
FOLLOW UPS:
This course is part of a program which can
lead you to Solaris
Certification and prepares you for the Solaris
Certified Administrator Part 2 exam.
A further course which will be of
interest is Solaris Network Administration, a
5-day course leading to the Solaris Certified Network Administrator
CX-310-302 exam.
PRACTICALS / TAKEAWAYS: Each student
leaves the course with his own set of training notes for the material
covered; around 120 pages per day of training.
| Every student who attends this course
will be issued with a signed certificate of course completion, which we
will be happy to "authenticate" upon future request. |
SOFTWARE VERSIONS: This course is
based on Solaris 2.10 (Solaris 10, Update 10) For training in earlier
release such as Solaris 8 and 9 please contact us.
TOPICS COVERED ON THE COURSE
Network Interface Configuration
Primer
- Configuring a machine's
IPv4 interfaces manually for network connection, with many ifconfig
examples.
- Discovering network interfaces with dladm.
- Understanding
Internet
Address classes and CIDR, and formulating Internet addresses.
- Configuring logical
interfaces.
- IPMP (Multipathing) configuration and
operation (Failover
and load
spreading)
- Network basic
commands and the associated security files. Using Secure Shell
(ssh).
- Network daemons. inetd.and SMF (Service
Management facility).
The inetadm and
inetconv commands. TCP wrappers.
- Network Monitoring utilities (snoop,
netstat, traceroute, nmap, ethereal, etc)
Network File System (NFS) and AutoFS
- Overview. Benefits and uses of NFS.
Sharing file systems and managing an NFS server.
- The /etc/dfs/dfstab and /etc/dfs/sharetab
files.
- NFS clients. The mount command.
- NFS security.
NFS logging. NFS strategies.
- The NFS
automounter (AutoFS). Starting and stopping autofs.
- Automount maps -
indirect, hosts, and direct.
- Failover entries in maps. Using variables
and wildcards in maps.
- Modifying automount options in
/etc/default/autofs. Using SMC with NFS.
- NFSv4 features.
SAMBA Server Overview
- A brief overview of this powerful and
impressive free open-source
server now included with Solaris 10, which effectively turns a Solaris
machine (or other UNIX/Linux machine) into a Windows NT file server.
- A
working SAMBA installation will be created, with graphical
configuration
using swat via a web browser.
Overview of Solaris name services
- NIS. NIS+, LDAP and DNS - how they work,
advantages and disadvantages
of each.
- The Name Service Switch and
/etc/nsswitch.conf.
- The Name
Service Cache Daemon (nscd).
DNS clients
- Configuring clients to use DNS name service.
LDAP Name Services
- Introduction to LDAP.
- Data examples. DIT and data structure.
Schemas.
- Servers and clients. Planning and Preparation.
- Sun Java Directory Server. Directory Server
Components. Directory Server Download. Distribution unpacking.
- Running idsktune.
- Directory Server basic setup, testing, getting
status information, adding test data.
- Using idsconfig to populate the server with
standard name-service data.
- Create a server instance. Backing up a server
instance.
- Directory Server Proxy.
- Adding a client machine.
- - Running ldapclient.
- - Listing LDAP data from the client.
- - LDAP client files.
- LDAP utilities - ldapaddent, ldaplist,
ldapadd, ldapmodify.
- Directory Service Control Center.
- Enabling Services under the SMF. SMF XML
Manifest file ds6.xml.
- Server Backup and Restore
- Server Replication - Reference only. Server
Replication Tasks.
- Microsoft Active Directory (ADS) integration
pointers.
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.
- The coreadm and dumpadm commands.
Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) and RAID
- 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.
- Hot Spares.
- Expanding file
systems
with growfs.
- 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.
- Using the command line to manage RBAC.
- RBAC files and directories.
Solaris Zones
- Features of Solaris zones. The uses for zone
partitioning.
- Configure,
install
and boot zones.
- Pre-configuring zone installation
information.
- Adding additional directories and resources to
an existing zone.
- Controlling zone resource limitations.
- Moving, renaming, cloning and
migrating zones.
- Running Linux, Solaris8 and Solaris 9 zones.
(Branded zones).
- Package and patch issues with 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.
Automatic Solaris Installation
(Jumpstart)
- Jump Start Overview.
- Build servers. Copying Solaris to disk.
- Creating
rules and profiles for automatic building of SPARC and Intel Solaris
installs.
- Using DHCP to support Jumpstart clients.
- Booting and building from the
network interactively and automatically.
- Using Jumpstart to build a ZFS-based root
system.
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.
- ZFS and flash installs.
Introduction to the Apache web server
- Apache Web
Server installation and activation.
- Installing a custom web site.
Enabling the Jakarta Tomcat java facility.
- Examples of common Apache
configuration directives.
Live Upgrade
- Live Upgrade overview and benefits.. Live
Upgrade commands.
- What can be upgraded? Hardware and software
requirements, including patch levels.
- Using lucreate to create an alternate boot
environment (BE) from a running system.
- Upgrading the boot environment:-
- - from Solaris 8 or 9 to Solaris 10.
- - to a later release of Solaris 10.
- Maintaining boot environments with patches and
software packages.
- Activation of a boot environment. Reverting to
a previous boot environment.
- Using Live Upgrade to migrate to a ZFS root
pool.
- Creating and using differential flash archives
in a Live Upgrade environment.
- Jumpstart and Live Upgrade.
Network Information Service (NIS) -
These notes are included for reference purposes only.
- Introduction. Creating a fully-functioning NIS
service.
- Using the
ypinit command to create Master and Slave servers.
- Updating the NIS
information from the command line.
- Using SMC with NIS to manage users,
groups and hosts.
- Adding NIS clients. NIS file policies.
- Creating and
using netgroups with /etc/netgroup.
- Adding your own data to NIS.
Modifying the NIS Makefile. Disabling NIS.
Note:- Several additional topics are
covered on this course compared to Sun's, such as IPMP, SSH, SMF for
network services, Samba and Apache.
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