This course is intended for Solaris 10 Administrators who wish to quickly get up to speed with the new features of Solaris 11. It covers all the major new facilities, in a workshop environment, providing extensive hands-on practicals.
Class goals :
This course is intended for Solaris 10 Administrators who wish to quickly get up to speed with the new features of Solaris 11. It covers all the major new facilities, in a workshop environment, providing extensive hands-on practicals.
Content of Transition to Solaris 11 (from Solaris 10)
Introduction to the new Solaris 11 operating system changes and enhancements
Considerations for a transition from Solaris 10 to 11
Solaris 11 Installations
Preparations for installation
Overview of install methods
Installation using the interactive installer (SPARC and Intel)
Installation with AI media (automated installer) (SPARC and Intel)
Using AI media for troubleshooting, etc.
Automated network installs, and how to migrate Solaris 10 Jumpstart rules, sysidcfg and profiles
The distribution constructor
Software Management
Overview of the IPS( Image Package System)
Using basic pkg commands to list packages and packages information
Installing, verifying, fixing and removing packages
Package group management
Using the packagmanager GUI
IPS repository management, including the creation and use of local release and support repositories
Manage Boot Environments
Boot environments in Solaris 11 compared to Live Upgrade in Solaris 10
Managing BEs with beadm
BEs and IPS – how they interact
Changes in Zones
Overview of new zone features
Creating and managing zones
Creating a branded Solaris 10 zone, including p2v and v2v conversions
NFS server now supported in a non-global zone
Read-only zones
Network Features and Changes
Day-to-day network configuration and management changes/enhancements
The new ipadm and enhanced dladm command
The new network virtualisation features
Network Auto-Magic (NWAM)
Implement IPMP (Internet Protocol Multi-Pathing)
Use network resource controls and network bridges
ipadm and IPv6
Disk Storage Enhancements
Overview of the new and changed features
ZFS deduplication
ZFS snapshot changes
ZFS zpool split – the ability to split a mirror from a pool, then import it
ZFS shadow migration
Describe the COMSTAR (COmmon Multiprotocol Scsi TARget) framework
Implement iSCSI including target and initiator systems
System Security New Features and Changes
Overview of the new security features
Configure data encryption, and create an encrypted file system
System integrity using the Basic Audit Reporting Tool (BART), including report customisation
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This course presents the essential differences between administrating Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 and the Solaris 10 Operating Systems. The course covers skills and tasks that are new or are changed in Solaris 10 from Solaris 8 and 9. The course also covers tasks in Solaris 10 that replace previous Solaris tasks.
Class goals :
By the end of the course the delegate should be able to administer services with the Service Management Facility, describe features of Multiterabyte UFS, manage patches with the Sun Update Connection Services, configure various security features, create RAID volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager, create and manage ZFS file systems, control Log file rotation, manage Flash Archives for installation, install updates with the Live Upgrade feature and describe other differences between Solaris 10 and older Solaris versions.
The delegate will practice:
Administer services with the Service Management Facility
Control Log file rotation
Create RAID volumes with the Solaris Volume Manager
Create and manage ZFS file systems
Manage Flash Archives for installation
Install updates with the Live Upgrade feature
Configure various security features
Content of Managing Solaris 10 for Experienced Solaris 8 and 9 Systems Administrators
Course Introduction
Administration and Course Materials
Course Structure and Agenda
Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Service Management Facility (SMF)
Identify features of the Service Management Facility (SMF)
Manage services with various SMF commands
Disk and File Management
Identify changes to the format command
Implement EFI disk labels
Identify changes to the behaviour of the devfsadm command
Identify new pseudo file systems
Describe features of the Multiterabyte UFS
Describe changes related to logging in UFS
Display file activity with fsstat
Describe the effect of the /etc/inet/ipnodes file on the loghost variable for syslog
Log file rotation
Solaris Volume Manager (SVM)
Describe Solaris Volume Manager Software RAID concepts
Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for a file system including root
Backup a mirrored volume
Build a RAID-5 volume
Manage Hot Spares
ZFS
Basic Description
Requirements
Main Features
The ZFS Tools
Managing ZFS Pools with zpool
Managing ZFS File Systems with zfs
Installing a ZFS root File System
Software Management
State the installation requirements for the Solaris 10 OS
Describe additional software groups introduced in the Solaris 10 OS
Describe differences in Jumpstart Server configuration
Describe WAN boot installation
Describe how signed packages and patches are implemented
Describe related options with pkgadd and patchadd
Sun Connection Services and Patch Management
Implement patch management using the Sun Update Connection Services
Manage patches with the Sun Update Manager application and the smpatch command
Managing Flash Archives
Describe the Flash installation feature
Create a Flash archive
Use a Flash archive for installation
Using Live Upagrade
Create an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
Create a differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
Create an empty alternative boot environment for updating with a Flash Archive
Extend a base boot environment with a differential flash archive
User Management and Security
Manage users and groups with the Solaris Management Console (SMC)
Manage users and groups with SMC commands
Manage password generation
Manage user logins for failed attempts
Networking Services
Describe differences in managing the DNS (server and client) and LDAP (client) Naming Services
Describe the differences in the Network File System (NFS)
Describe the enhancements to Network File System version 4
Describe changes to managing AutoFS
Miscellaneous Features
Identify changes in printing services
Desktop Printer Management Tool
Describe the differences in the coreadm command from Solaris 10
Describe MPSS (Multiple Page Size Support)
System Administration with Solaris Management Console (SMC)
System Administration with Webmin
Zone (optional topic, depending on time)
Basic Description
Main Features and Benefits
Zone Configuration Settings and Characteristics
Creating Zones (zonecfg, zoneadm, zlogin)
Accessing Zones
Managing the Zone State
Zone Migration
Zone System Processes
GRUB (optional topic, depending on time)
Booting from an INTEL System with GRUB
Booting Procedures with GRUB
GRUB Files
Modifying the Boot Behaviour
Training Managing Solaris 10
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It covers many networking topics, including the TCP/IP model; network topologies, media, interfaces and utilities; ARP and RARP; configuring IP; IPMP (Multipathing); network aggregations, routing; IPV6 (IP version 6); DNS (Domain Name System); DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol); NTP (Network Time Protocol) and IP Filter Firewall.
Class goals :
Takes trainees who have completed the Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 1) and Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 2) courses and adds additional network administration knowledge to their portfolio, up to a level required for the CX-310-302 Solaris Network Administrator exam.
Content of Solaris Network Administration
Basic Network Configuration
Static configuration using files
Dynamic configuration using DHCP
The IPv4 address scheme, including classful and classless addresses
The private address space
Populating the /etc/inet/hosts file; using host aliases
Creating logical interfaces
Basic subnetting
Network daemons and the Service management facility
Using TCP Wrappers to restrict access to services, with rule examples.
The TCP/IP Model
The fundamentals of the TCP/IP network model
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) model layers
peer-to-peer communication and related protocols
understand TCP/IP protocols
LAN Components and structures
Identify the different types of network topology
Describe network media and devices
Ethernet Interfaces
Ethernet concepts
Ethernet frames
Using network utilities
Using Open Source network utilities
ARP and RARP
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) functions and implementation
Reverse ARP (RARP)
IP Configuration in Solaris
The Internet layer protocols
IP datagrams
Address types
Subnetting and variable length subnet masks (VLSMs)
Setting up wireless networking
iSCSI targets and administration
IPMP – IP Network Multipathing, and Link Aggregations
Configure and manage IP multipathing
configure and manage Link Aggregations using dladm
Configuring Routing
Routing fundamentals
The routing table, and table population
Routing protocols
Static and dynamic route configuration
Classless inter-domain routing (CIDR)
Configure routing for system startup
Troubleshoot routing
IPv6
IPv6 overview
IPv6 addressing and address types (Unicast, multicast, etc)
Neighbour Discovery Protocol
Enabling and managing IPV6 in Solaris
Logical interfaces
IPv6 aware utilities
IPv6 Routing
IPv6 Tokens and temporary addresses
IPv6 and Name Services
6to4 routing
IPV6 multipathing
The Transport Layer
Transport layer basics
User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
TCP Flow Control
DNS Server Configuration
Name Services and DNS Overview
The Name Service Switch /etc/nsswitch.conf
The named daemon and the /etc/named.conf file
DNS resource record types and formats
Domains and Zones of authority
DNS Master server configuration
Creating and maintaining the data store
DNS client configuration and testing
Adding access to higher-kevel domains (internet)
Adding Reverse Mapping data files
Slave server configuration
Dynamic DNS (with DHCP updates)
Cache-only and Forwarding servers
DNS server security
Using the rndc command
DNS and IPv6
DNS SMF properties
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol – DHCP
DHCP Overview
Setting up a DHCP server with dhcpconfig or dhcpmgr
Adding network tables, table entries and information macros
Managing the DHCP addresses; assigning permanent addresses
Creating custom symbols and macros
Setting up a DHCP relay agent
The dhcpagent process and dhcpinfo command
Configure and manage DHCP clients
ifconfig DHCP options
Client hostname issues
The eventhook script
Network Time Protocol – NTP
Overview of time control in Solaris
Network Time Protocol overview, time sources, and stratum servers
Configuring an NTP server
Configuring an NTP client
Obtaining information (ntpq and xntpdc)
Solaris IP Filter Firewall
IPfilter Overview
Filter Rules with examples
Configuration file preparation
Using the ippools feature
Using ipfstat to examine active rules, and statistics
Logging filter activities, and monitoring them with ipmon
Enabling and disabling the IPfilter service
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.
LDAP Name Services – These notes are included for reference purposes only
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
This Solaris System Administration training course will provide delegates with practical experience of configuring various aspects of a Sun Microsystem Solaris system up to and including Solaris version 10. This course extends the skills a delegate will have gained from attending the Solaris System Administration – Part 1 course.
Class goals :
Administering Solaris systems involves many specialised tasks including; monitoring system events with syslog, performing network installations, dealing with various aspects of the network environment and assigning system roles to users. Delegates taking this class will gain the necessary knowledge and skills to perform these tasks.
The delegates will practise:
Configuring and Managing DNS
Configuring and Managing NIS
Control of remote File Systems with NFS and Auto mount
Managing Disk Space in the Solaris Volume Management environment using the Solaris Management Console and standard commands
Managing swap space
Setting up the JumpStart facility to automate installation
Installing a system with a Flash Archive
Live Upgrade
Managing the System and Program Dump file environment
Managing system event logging with syslog
Allocating system tasks to users using Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Configuring and accessing Zones
Content of Solaris 10 Systems Administration Part 2
Course Introduction
Administration and Course Materials
Course Structure and Agenda
Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Naming Services
DNS Overview
DNS Server and Client Setup
NIS
NIS Servers and Clients
Setting up NIS Servers and Clients
NIS+ Overview
LDAP Overview and Setting up an LDAP Client
The Name Service Switch Configuration Files
Template nsswitch Files
Displaying Information From the Name Server
Name Service Cache Daemon
Reference for Naming Services
Exercise: Setting up an NIS server and client
NFS/Cache FS
Network File System (NFS)
NFS Terminology
NFS Server
NFS Client
NFS Server Configuration
/etc/dfs/dfstab File
NFS Server Configuration – SMC
Other NFS Commands
NFS Client Configuration
The mount Command
Mounting a Local Resource
Mounting a Remote Resource
Responding to server failure – mount options
Multiple Hosts
Unmounting a Resource
NFS Client Configuration – SMC
Troubleshooting NFS
Cache File System (Cachefs)
Cachefs Terminology
Creating a Cache File System
Cachefs Statistics and Consistency
Cachefs Logging
Removing Cache File System
NFS Logging – user access
Exercise: Setting up an NFS server and client
Automount
Automount Utility
Automount Maps
Registering Changes for Automount
automount -v
Exercise: Setting up an automount client
Solaris Volume Manager (SVM)
Disk Management and File System Review
RAID Technology and Volumes
RAID Modes
SVM Tools
Volume Management Operations
State Database Replicas
Creating State Database Replicas
Creating a Disk Concatenation
SVM Commands and Files
Creating State Database Replicas – the metadb command
metadevices
metstat command
Creating a Concatenation of two disk slices
Creating and Managing Mirrors
Creating File Systems on Volumes
Deleting a Metadevice
Dynamically Growing Existing File Systems
Mirroring Volumes and backup of Mirrors
Exercises:
Creating a database and concatenation volume
Growing a file system
Managing Swap Space
Swap Space
Configuring Swap Space
Adding a Swap File on an Existing File System
Disabling Swap Space
Exercise: Setting up an extra swap area
Jumpstart
Interactive Installation Review
Automatic Installation
Principles of JumpStart
Server Setup for JumpStart
Configuring NIS to Support JumpStart
Locale
Ethernet Address
IP Address and Hostname
TimeZone
Netmasks
Bootparams
Timehost Alias
Configuring Non NIS Server for JumpStart
Configuration Directory
Rules File
Class File
Check Utility
Install/Boot Server Installation
setup_install_server Utility
add_install_client Utility
Setting up DHCP for Intel clients
Overview of WAN Boot Installation
Installing a new Client
Jumpstart troubleshooting
Exercise: Setting up a jumpstart server and client
Managing Flash Archives
Flash Archive Definition
Creating a Flash Archive
Restoring a Flash Archive
Specifying the Location of the Flash Archive to be Restored
Jumpstart Installation Considerations
Displaying Flash Archive Information
Live Upgrade Overview
Live Upgrade description
Basic procedures
lucreate and luupdate commands
Live Upgrade Example
Dump File Configuration
Dump File Definition
System Crash Dumps
Displaying the System Crash Dump Configuration
Modifying the System Crash Dump Configuration
Core Dumps
Displaying the Core Dump Configuration
Modifying the Core Dump Configuration
Exercises:
Displaying the system crash dump configuration
Displaying and setting the core dump configuration
Syslog
syslog Configuration
The /etc/syslog.conf Configuration File
Facility
Security Level
Action
The M4 Utility
Editing the syslog.conf File
Logging Telnet, FTP and other Networking Daemon
The SMC Log Viewer
Testing syslogd Logging
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Traditional Unix Security vs RBAC
The RBAC Security Model
Main Attributes and Associated Files
Linking Attributes and their Files together
Attribute File Formats
Configuring RBAC Examples
Using SMC in the RBAC Environment
Exercise: Defining & testing a file system’s management role
Zones
Basic Description
Main Features and Benefits
Zone Configuration Settings and Characteristics
Creating Zones
User Access to Zones
Managing the Zone State
Zone System Processes
Exercise: Configuring and enabling a Zone
Training Solaris 10 Systems
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This five-day course is designed to cover the essential administration tasks confronting today’s Sun systems administrators. It covers all basic workstation administration functions, with full hands-on experience at all stages.
Class goals :
Administering Solaris systems involves many standard tasks including; starting and shutting down a system, managing printers and performing regular backups. Delegates taking this course will gain the necessary knowledge and skills to perform these tasks.
The delegates will practise:
Using the Solaris Desktops
Local System Administration with Solaris Management Console (SMC)
Configuring the Openboot Firmware
Managing Boot Procedures with GRUB
Startup and Shutdown Procedures
Managing Services with the Service Management Facility (SMF)
Installing the Solaris Operating system
Software Package Administration
Maintenance Of Patches
Disk Management and Partitioning
File System Management
ZFS
File Security and ACLs
User and Group Management
Accessing Remote Systems
Backup And Recovery
Managing the Print Environment
Managing Processes
Content of Solaris 10 Systems Administration Part 1
Course Introduction
Administration and Course Materials
Course Structure and Agenda
Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Accessing the Solaris Operating System
Solaris Desktops
Solaris Desktop Administration Tools
Main Features and Usage of SMC
Boot Procedures
Openboot interface
Openboot parameters
Device names and aliases
Openboot diagnostics
Boot Options
Boot Device Sequence with BIOS
Booting with GRUB
Exercise: Setting Openboot parameters and Boot options
Startup and Shutdown Procedures
Boot Phases
init
System run levels
inittab file
Run control scripts
Adding a run control script
Disabling a run control script
System shutdown
The shutdown command
The init command
The halt/poweroff commands
The reboot command
The stop-a command
Exercise: Creating a run control script
Service Management Facility
Basic Features
The SMF Environment
SMF and Booting
SMF Environmental Structures
Service States
Managing Services
Listing Services with svcs and inetadm
Managing the State of a Service with svcadm
Configuring a Service with svccfg
Managing the State of inetd Network Services with inetadm
Exercise: Listing and Managing the State of Services
Installing the Solaris Operating System
Installation requirements
System configuration for servers and clients
Partitions and multiple disks
Software terminology
Packages, Clusters and Groups
Configuration cluster
Definition of Installation methods
Web Start
Interactive
Jumpstart
Flash
Live Upgrade
Interactive Installation Process
Installation from CD/DVD
Exercise: Installing a Solaris System (possibly, optional at the end of the course)
Software Package Information
Documentation Packages
Configuration clusters
Tools for managing software
Displaying current software package information
Checking the installation of a package
Adding software packages using a CDROM device
Removing software packages
Package logfiles
Exercise: Removing, adding and listing a Package
Maintenance of Patches
Maintenance of patches and patch clusters
Verification of currently installed patches
Installing a patch on the system
Removing a patch from the system
Patch logfiles
Exercise: Installing and listing a Patch
Connection Services
Sun Connection Services Overview
The smpatch command
The Update Manager
Disk Management
Displaying disk information
Partitions/Slices
Naming conventions
Physical device names
Instance name
Logical device names
Block and character devices
Configuring new disk devices
Partitioning the disk with the format command and Solaris
Management Console
Making a new partition
Exercise: Configuring and listing a disk slice
File System Management
Disk based file systems
Main root sub-directories
Pseudo file systems
Components of a ufs file system
Boot block
Superblocks
Inodes
Data disk blocks
Ulimit parameter
File types
Symbolic and Hard links
Creating file systems
The newfs command
The mount command
The umount command
The vfstab file
The mnttab file
Filesystem checking
Determining if a file system needs checking
Running fsck manually
The lost+found directories
Automounting CDs and floppies (Volume Management)
Checking free disk space
The df command
The quot command
The du command
Freeing disk space
Freeing up disk space with compression utilities
Rotating files with logadm
Exercise: Managing file systems, newfs, mount etc.
ZFS
ZFS – A Basic Description
Requirements
Main Features
ZFS Tools
Managing ZFS Pools with zpool
Pool Storage Devices
Pool Configuration Features
Creating and Deleting (‘Destroying Pools’)
Managing File Systems with ZFS
Creating and Destroying a File System
Snapshots and Clones
ZFS Properties
Read-Only Native Properties
Settable Native Properties
ZFS GUI Interface
Exercise: Creating and managing a ZFS system
File Security and ACLS
ACLs (Access Control Lists)
The setfacl command
The getfacl command
The ACL mask
Exercise: Setting and Viewing ACLs
User Management
User accounts
Files used in creating a user – the passwd, group and shadow files
Adding a user
Changing user details
Deleting a user
User group maintenance
Password administration
Password command
Local Login control
Remote Login control
Login logs
User communication
The wall command
The message of the day
Controlling the amount of disk space accessible to users using quotas
Exercise: Creating and listing users and groups
Backup and Recovery
Backup overview
Backup policy
Backup and restore utilities overview
Tape device names
The mt utility – retentsion, rewind, space forward or backward and status
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