Course Overview
This three-day course is designed to cover the more technically complex and difficult tasks confronting the Solaris/UNIX system and network administrator. All topics will be accompanied by extensive hands-on, with a minimum ratio of three fully-equipped Sun workstations between two students. There will be ample time to put forward your own topics for discussion and analysis.
Audience
System Administrators that have already completed the Solaris 10 System Administration Parts 1 & 2
Examinations
This course, combined with the Solaris 10 Systems Administartion Part 2 course, is comparable with Sun's SA-202-S10 course, and leads to the Solaris Certified Administrator Part 2 exam.
Prerequisites
Candidates should have already completed:
- Solaris 10 System Administration Alternative Track: Part 1 & Part 2
Course Outline
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.
Disk quotas
Enabling quotas. Setting quota limits and time limits; Quota reporting. Remote server quotas.
Solaris Volume Manager (SVM)and RAID disks
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. UFS logging. Hot Spares. Expanding file systems with growfs. Summary of files and commands. 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. RBAC files and directories.
X Windows Technology Explained
X Windows background and constituent parts. X windows and the network. Adding an X login capability to the network (xdm and setup files) CDE and dtlogin. Configuring a Chooser.
Solaris Zones
Features of Solaris zones. The uses for zone partitioning. Configure, install and boot zones. Pre-configuring zone installation information. Adding additional directories to an existing zone. Controlling zone resource limitations. Moving, renaming, cloning and migrating zones. Zone FAQ.
The ZFS File System
ZFS is a new disk storage pool and file system present in the main Solaris release update 2 of June 2006. This section gives a good practical guide to using ZFS ; creating a storage pool; adding further devices; hot spares; removing a pool; creating file systems within a pool; managing file system properties; reporting on pool and filesystem status; creating and using snapshots and clones; the ZFS browser-based GUI; using ZFS filesystems within zones.
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.
Accounting Mechanisms
Login accounting - viewing data, analysis utilities. Process accounting - enabling, examining and analysing data.
Automatic Solaris Installation (Jumpstart)
Jump Start Overview. Build servers. Copying Solaris to disk. Creating rules and profiles for automatic build. Booting and building from the network interactively and automatically. Includes a full practical automatic build.
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.
Kernel Configuration Parameters
What parameters are available to configure. Examining current kernel parameters Enforce new values. Using utilities such as vmstat, sar, etc to monitor and analyse system activity.
