Overview

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The System Administration for Solaris 10 OS, Part 2 course helps students gain expertise in the advancedsystem administration concepts of Solaris 10. This course provides students with hands-on experience workingwith more complex and integrated administration concepts, and builds upon the System Administration for the Solaris 10 OS

• System Administrator
• Prerequisites
• Required Prerequisites
• Archive files
• Control the user work environment
• Install software
• Manage file systems
• Manage files and directories
• Perform system boot procedures
• Perform user and security administration
• Use remote commands

• Managing Swap Configuration
• Managing core dumps
• Configuring NFS and AutoFS
• Describe RAID
• Working with ZFS
• Control access and configure system messaging
• Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
• Setup name services
• Work with Zones
• Describe LDAP
• Perform Live Upgrade and JumpStart Installation

• Managing Swap Space, Core Files and Crash Dumps
• Configure swap space
• Manage crash dump behavior
• Manage core file behavior

• Describe the benefits of NFS
• Fundamentals of the NFS distributed file system
• Manage an NFS server
• Manage an NFS client
• Enable the NFS server logging
• Troubleshoot NFS errors

• AutoFS file system fundamentals
• Automount maps
• Describing RAID
• Describing RAID concepts

• Describe Oracle Solaris Volume Manager software concepts
• Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
• Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for the root (/) file system

• Describe RBAC fundamentals
• Describe component interaction within RBAC
• Manage RBAC

• Fundamentals of the syslog function
• Configure the /etc/syslog.conf file
• Configure syslog messaging
• Use the Solaris Management Console log viewer

• Name services concept
• Describe the name service switch file /etc/nsswitch.conf
• Describe the name service cache daemon (nscd) Getting name service information

• Configure a DNS client
• Configure an LDAP client

• Identifying Zone Features
• Describing how and why zone partitioning is used Configuring zones
• Installing, booting, moving, migrating, and deleting zones Administering packages with zones
• lx Branded Zones

• LDAP as a naming service
• Basic LDAP concepts and terminology
• Directory Server Enterprise Edition requirements
• Solaris LDAP Client requirements

• Describe JumpStart configurations
• Implementing a basic JumpStart server for SPARC® and x86/x64 clients
• Describing booting x86/x64 systems using the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) DHCP server setup to support x86/x64 JumpStart DHCP server setup to support x86/x64 JumpStart clientsJumpStart software configuration alternatives
• JumpStart to create a ZFS mirrored root pool
• Troubleshooting JumpStart configurations

• Describe the benefits of using Live Upgrade
• Solaris Live Upgrade process
• Solaris Live Upgrade requirements
• Solaris Live Upgrade commands
• Creating an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
• Creating differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
• Modifying the state of the new boot environment Patching a system with Live Upgrade
• Patching a system with Live Upgrade