Oracle Solaris 11g Administration I

In this 5 day instructor led class, students will learn the following Oracle Solaris 11 Administration skills:

Class Outline

Install Solaris 11 Using the Interactive Installer

Preparation for the Installation.
Performing and Installation interactively.
Post-install verification.

Managing Software, and Updating Solaris 11 Using IPS

IPS Repositories.
Package searching and listing facilities.
Installing packages and package groups.
Verifying the installation of packages
Uninstalling packages.
Using the packagemanager GUI.
Keeping the system up-to-date (No more patches!)

System Startup and shutdown, and managing system services with SMF

Managing and monitoring system services with SMF
Integrating new services with an XML manifest and control script.
System boot procedures, including boot troubleshooting.
Shutdown procedures.

Configuration of ZFS Storage Pools

Creating a ZFS Storage Pool from raw disk devices.
Includes linear, raid 1 mirrors and raid Z devices.
Adding capacity to a pool, and replacing faulty components; how to use hot spares.
Displaying Pool status, and managing pool properties.
Monitoring pool performance.
Destroying a pool.

ZFS Datasets (a.k.a. File Systems)

Creating and destroying datasets.
Displaying and changing the many dataset properties, such as quotas, compression, etc.
Displaying dataset status and information.
Mounting and datasets.

Using ZFS Snapshots and Clones

Taking a snapshot of a dataset, including recursive snapshots.
Renaming snapshots, including recursively.
Destroy a snapshot, including recursive snapshots; roll back to a snapshot.
Displaying snapshot information, such as space usage.
Creating a clone (a writeable fork of a snapshot); promoting a clone.
Destroying a clone.

Configuring and Managing Zones

Define the configuration for a new zone, and verify.
Install a new zone.
Access the zone.
Zone control, such as startup and shutdown.
Displaying and interpreting zone configurations.
Monitoring zones.
Introduction to zone resource controls.

Configuring a Physical Network devices.

Display datalinks with dladm.
Network profiles (dynamic and static).
Overview of NWAM (NetWork Auto Magic).
Configuring a network interface with ipadm.
Managing a network interface.
IPMP overview.
Validate network functionality.

User Account management

User and group concepts.
Adding and removing users and groups.
Managing users and groups.
Password management, including aging.
Configuring the user environment (shell profiles)
Implementing disk quotas under ZFS datasets (Both ZFS and User quotas are available)

Managing Access to the system and directory structure

Login and password security fundamentals.
Replacing the Password encryption processes.
Testing and verifying secure access controls.

Controlling Access to Files and directories

Protecting Files with Basic Permissions using chmod and chown.
Identifying and guarding against commands with a potential security risk.
Using simple ACL’s (Access Control Lists).

Remote access using Secure Shell

Secure shell commands (ssh, scp and sftp)
The sshd daemon; configure, enable and disable.
Configuring the client side.

Control and Manage System Processes

Display system processes with ps and top, etc.
Manage system processes.
Kill a process.

Managing the crontab system

Create modify crontab jobs for repetitive tasks.
Restricting access to crontab
Using at for one-off jobs.

System Logs, Kernel Crash and Process Core Dump Files

System log processes and management.
Managing kernel crash dumps.
Managing process core dumps.

Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting scenarios, hints and tips, etc.are an inherent part of the course.
Typical scenarios include boot problems, permissions issues, user mis-configuration, software update problems, network connectivity, and many others.
These issues are not tackled separately, but as part of the main course content, and in the context of real practical examples.

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