SOLARIS Training

Solaris 11 System Administration - Part I

Overview

This Solaris System Administration training course will give delegates practical experience in the administration of an Oracle Solaris 11 system.

Together with the Solaris Introduction course this event will enable the delegate to gain skills which will help them to prepare for the Oracle Certified Associate, Oracle Solaris 11 System Administrator exam (1Z0-821).

Having achieved the above certification plus attending the Solaris Systems Administration Part II course attendees will have gained much of the preparation required for sitting the Oracle Solaris Advanced Systems Administration exam (1Z0-822).

Prerequisites

Delegates should be familiar with using Solaris Unix shell commands and the vi editor. Knowledge of shell programming would be beneficial though not essential.

Objectives

Administering Solaris systems involves many standard tasks including; starting and shutting down a system, managing filesystems and performing regular backups. Delegates taking this course will gain the necessary knowledge and skills to perform these tasks.

Outline

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

Administration and Course Materials
Course Structure and Agenda
Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: BOOT AND SHUTDOWN PROCEDURES

Boot procedures overview
Boot phases
Sparc Openboot
Modifying Sparc boot procedures
Intel BIOS and the Grub boot loader
Modifying Intel boot procedures
The init process
System run levels
Run control scripts
Shutdown procedures
Exercise

Session 2: SERVICE MANAGEMENT FACILITY

Basic features
The SMF environment
SMF and booting
SMF environmental structures
Service states
Managing services
Automatic SMF state notification
Exercise

Session 3: INSTALLING THE SOLARIS 11

Installation methods
Minimum installation requirements
Installation considerations
Disk partitioning
Logical disk names
Device drivers
Software packages
Network configuration
Performing an interactive installation
Checking the installed system

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 4: IPS SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

Repositories
Package name format
Managing packages with the pkg command
List existing and searching for new packages
Updating existing and installing new packages
Checking existing packages
Managing packages with the GUI tool
Exercise

Session 5: DISK MANAGEMENT

Displaying disk information
Partitions/Slices
Naming conventions
Physical device names
Instance names
Logical device names
Block and character devices
Configuring new disk devices
Partitioning the disk
Exercise

Session 6: UFS FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

Disk based file systems
Main root sub-directories
Pseudo file systems
Components of a file system
Creating and mounting file systems
Automounting DVDs and USB Devices
Checking file systems
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

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 7: UFS BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

Backup policy
Archive devices
The mt utility
The ufsdump utility
The ufsrestore utility
ufs Snapshots

Session 8: ZFS FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

Requirements
Main features
ZFS tools
Managing ZFS Pools with zpool
Pool storage devices
Pool configuration features
Creating and deleting Pools
Viewing pool status
Managing file systems with ZFS
Creating and destroying a file system
Mounting and unmounting filesystems
Snapshots and Clones
Creating, destroying and displaying Snapshots and Clones
ZFS properties
Read-Only native properties
Settable native properties
Exercise

Session 9: FILE PERMISSIONS REVIEW

Basic file permissions
Changing permissions
Default permissions
Extended permissions
Changing the Owner
Changing the Group
Exercise

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 10: USER MANAGEMENT

User accounts
Files used in creating a user
Adding a user
Changing user details
Deleting a user
User group maintenance
Password administration
Password command
Securing logins and passwords
Local and remote login control
Login logs
Message of the day file
Exercise

Session 11: DISK QUOTAS

UFS Quotas
Creating the Quotas files
Adding Quota checks and enabling
Add the Quota option to the /etc/vfstab File
Establish Quotas for individual users
Turning Quotas on and off
Turning on Quotas for ZFS
Setting ZFS Quotas for users and groups
Check spaced used for users and groups
Exercise

Shell configuration
Shell variables
Command aliases
Executing commands
Creating a permanent environment (profiles and rc files)
Customising the environment
Exercise

Course Contents - DAY 5

Session 13: MANAGING PROCESSES

Introduction to process management
The ps command
The prstat and top commands
The kill command
The 'p series of commands
Debugging processes
Background jobs
Using the cron processes
Cron files
Creating crontab entries
Amending existing crontab files
Crontab command options
The at command
Exercise

Session 14: NETWORKING ADMINISTRATION

Network addressing - IPv4
Network masks and subnets
Routing
Location of network information
SMF network properties
Network Profiles
Network Interfaces and Datalinks
Manual and automatic configuration
Managing Datalinks
Managing Interfaces
Exercise

Session 15: ADMINISTERING ZONES

Features and benefits
Configuration settings
Viewing a zone configuration
Starting up and shutting down zones
Logging in and out of a Zone
Monitoring a zone
Exercise

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