Solaris Training : Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration (Advanced Operations)

Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration (Advanced Operations)

Solaris Training Overview

The Oracle Solaris 11 (Advanced) System Administration course introduces participants to: virtualization (zones), configuring access to networked directories and file systems (NFS), dynamic system tracing for system analysis (DTrace), core dump analysis, an introduction to the usage of access control lists (ACL) and the implementation of privileges in Solaris 11. In many areas of discussion, emphasis will be placed on writing tools for monitoring and/or access. These tools will include Korn shell scripts, Perl procedures, and C language programs.

Systems: Oracle Solaris 11, SPARC or x86/x64 hardware platforms.

Solaris Training Prerequisites

It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration course, or has equivalent system time as a user, and is comfortable with basic systems administration functions.

Solaris Training Course duration

This course normally requires four (4) days, approximately 60% lecture, and 40% lab time.

Solaris Training Course Objectives

On completion of this course, a systems administrator should be able to:

configure and setup NFS server and client systems
create and control virtualization features (zones)
configure a basic Automated Installer (AI) server
use both file and directory ACLs
distinguish between privilege and non-privilege aware programs
control privileges at the executable and user process levels

Solaris Training Course outline

Advanced Solaris 11 Installation Setup -part 2

Configuring Solaris 11 installation methods
text installer
Automated Installer (AI)
- default
- basic manifest customization
- installadm service setup
- multiple boot environments

Virtualization in Solaris 11

virtualization types
- hardware based
- software based
benefits of software virtualization
overview of Solaris 11 implementation (zones)

Features of Solaris Zones

types (whole root) and templates
creation and usage of control daemons
networking capabilities
operating states
the global zone
branded zones

Initial Operations on Solaris Zones

configuring zones (features)
booting zones
installing zones (identification and attributes)
using the zone virtual console
zone shutdown
zone deletion

Administrative Operations on Solaris Zones

package management
patch control, addition, removal
Solaris 11 update considerations with active zones
renaming, moving, cloning, migrating zones
backup and recovery mechanisms

Storage Access in Solaris Zones

accessing UFS data
sharing zpool/zfs global zone data
NFS client/server capabilities

Security Features in Solaris 11

File and Directory ACLs
Using Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
Principle of Least Privilege
Assigning privileges to users and programs
Using Extended Policy privilege assignment

Advanced Networking Features

NFS client and server setup
automounter setup and configuration
DNS client setup
LDAP client setup
Introduction to LDAP structure and server
Configuring local and remote syslog
Configuring link failover via IPMP Link aggregation

Managing the Service Management Facility (SMF)

Implement a plan to configure services
Generating manifests with svcbundle
Configure SMF services
Recover a service from a snapshot
Troubleshoot SMF services