Solaris 10 Upgrade
for Experienced System Administrators
Solaris Training Overview
The course provides a thorough grounding in the Solaris Unix Operating System through comprehensive handson exercises and labs. Upon completion of this course participants are ready to work confidently in the Solaris Environment. This course is a prerequisite for the Solaris Advanced Course.
Solaris Training Audience
People who want to learn more about the Unix Solaris Operating System. This includes people who must work with Solaris in their jobs, for example, Web Developers, System Administrators and people running other applications on Solaris.
Solaris Training Prerequisites
Basic PC skills and a strong knowledge of DOS would be helpful but is not essential.
font class=level1>Learning Objectives
Students will:
- Know how to install, configure, and maintain a secure Apache web server.
- Use the Apache web server to setup single, multiple, and virtual sites.
- Apply the server to an Intranet application, serving corporate and users' pages.
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Solaris Training Course duration
5 Days
Solaris Training Course outline
1. Installation Procedures Overview
- hardware requirements
- new software clusters
- interactive suninstall
- live upgrade
- flash install
- jumpstart
- wanboot
2. New Solaris 10 file systems and directories
- /etc/contract
- /etc/svc/volatile
- /system/object
- /devices
- SMF directory structure
- /etc/zones
3. Service Management Facility (SMF)
- milestones vs. runlevels
- legacy services vs. SMF services
- svc.startd and svc.configd
- service repository database
- methods and manifests
- svcs and svcadm commands
- svcprop and svccfg commands
- secure by default
4. Changes in Network Services
- NFS version 4
- network configuration
- automounter
- syslogd
- NIS
- inetd controlled services
5. User Administration
- password management features
- locking accounts after failed login attempts
6. Printing Services
7. Zone Adminstration
- Zone features
- Global and non-global zones
- Sparse root model vs. whole root model
- Configuring a zone
- Installing a zone
- Managing zones
- Deleting a zone
- Installing packages in zones
- Moving a zone
8. ZFS
- ZFS features and terminology
- hard and software requirements
- concepts of ZFS storage pools
- replication features (mirror, raidz, and raidz2)
- creating, destroying and recovering ZFS storage pools
- creating and destroying ZFS file systems
- setting and inheriting ZFS properties
- mounting ZFS file systems
- ZFS snapshots and clones
- NFS shares of ZFS file systems
- Moving ZFS file systems across pools
- Sharing ZFS file systems
- Recovering ZFS file system
