In this 5 day instructor led class, students will learn the following Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration skills.
Class Outline
Managing the Image Packaging System (IPS) repositories and publishers
- Configure local IPS release and support (Oracle
Solaris updates) repositories. - Access and install Oracle key and certificate
files to authorise support repository downloads. - Configure client access to the local IPS server
repositories. - Signed packages and other package properties.
- Administering IPS package publishers.
- Managing multiple Boot Environments (BE), with
facilities in the pkg and beadm commands.
Automating Solaris 11 installation of multiple systems
- Automated Installation of Solaris 11 using the
Automated Installer (AI) on SPARC and Intel systems. - Creating AI manifests and packages, plus client
configuration profiles. - Building a custom Solaris image using the
distribution constructor.
Configuring ZFS for Business Application Data
- Configuring data redundancy with mirrored and
RAIDz Storage Pools. - Backup and restore with ZFS snapshots, send and
receive, including full OS backup and restore. - Advanced ZFS dataset properties.
- ZFS failure and recovery scenarios.
- Sharing data with NFS (Network File System),
including server and client configuration. - Configuring basic CIFS (Common Internet File
System, a.k.a. SMB) shares. - Introduction to the CIFS client-side in Solaris 11.
Configuring Network and Implement Network Failover
- Local network configuration; static and dynamic
network profiles. - Using NetWork Auto-Magic (NWAM) for automatic
network configuration. - Using link aggregations for failover and extra
bandwidth. - Implementing network link failover using IPMP
(Internet Protocol Multi-Pathing). - Creating, configuring and monitoring an IPMP
Group. - Testing failover.
Configuring Virtual Network, including Zones.
- Creating and configuring a virtual network
interfaces (VNICs). - Configuring VNICs in zones.
- Resources configuration in a zone.
- Managing VNIC resources.
Managing Systems Services and Service Properties in the SMF (Service Management facility)
- Creating and configuring SMF services.
- SMF properties and how to use them.
- Troubleshooting and recovering failed SMF services.
Configuring Privileges and Role-Based Access Control, and the sudo command
- Configuring and Using RBAC (Role Based Access
Control). - Assign rights profiles and Authorisations to
users. - Configure new rights profiles.
- Create Administrative Roles, and assign rights.
- Understand and configure privileges; identify
privilege aware commands. - Assign privileges to users and roles.
- Configure and use the sudo command.
Using Solaris Auditing to monitor and record user actions.
- Implementing, configuring and enabling auditing.
- Using and understanding audit data generated by
the audit system.
Managing Processes and Scheduling Priorities
- Overview of process scheduling features.
- Configuring process scheduling priority.
- Enabling the Fair Share Scheduler (FSS).
- Configure the scheduling class of a zone.
Basic System Resource controls
- System Resource principles.
- Monitoring System Performance.
- Examples of system resource control commands.
- Project creation and project parameters.
Monitoring and Troubleshooting Process and System Failures
- Configuring system messaging (syslog).
- Managing log rotation tasks.
- Controlling process and system crash dumps, i.e. core files and kernel panic dumps.
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