Course Description

Solaris 10 for Experienced System Administrators

Description

The Solaris 10 for Experienced System Administrators course provides students with instruction about the functionality found in Solaris 10 regarding Installation, System Management, DTrace and Network features.

Who Should Attend?

Students who can benefit from this course are experienced system administrators with direct experience with Solaris 8 and Solaris 9.

Prerequisites

To succeed fully on this course, delegates should be able to:

•  Administer the Solaris 9 Operating System

Knowledge and Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, delegates should be able to:

•  Install Solaris 10 and evaluate changes to the installation.

•  Work with zones.

•  Use the authentication features of Solaris 10.

•  Identify changes to the filesystem.

•  Evaluate changes to fault and event management.

•  Define dynamic tracing and use DTrace to diagnose system performance issues.

•  Evaluate changes to network administration, including IP changes, NFS, Security, IPMP, DHCP and others.

•  Use DTrace to find the source of intermittent problems.

•  Use DTrace to look at the cause of performance problems.

Course Content

Module 1: Changes to Installation

•  Jumpstart keywords

•  Flash archive

•  Live archive

•  WAN install and boot

•  Web installation of patches and packages

•  License panel

Module 2: Zones

•  Identify features of dynamic resource pools

•  Identify features of the resource capping daemon

•  Identify features of zones

•  Use zone management features

Module 3: Authentication Changes

•  Identify changes to password checking

•  Identify features of least privilege

•  Identify changes to Kerberos

Module 4: File System Changes

•  Identify features of the Zetabyte File System (ZFS)

•  Identify changes to UFS

Module 5: Fault and Event Management

•  Changes to sysevent

•  Fault management architecture

•  Service management facility

Module 6: DTrace Fundamentals

•  Describe the features of DTrace

•  Describe the DTrace architecture

Module 7: Using DTrace

•  Examining performance problems using DTrace

•  Use DTrace to obtain information about system calls

•  Create D scripts that use arguments

Module 8: IP Changes

•  Identify changes to IPQoS

•  Identify changes to QFE VLAN

•  Identify the features of the Fire Engine project

•  Identify changes to IP

Module 9: NFS Changes

•  Identify the features of NFSv4

Module 10: Security Feature Changes

•  Describe the Solaris encryption framework

•  Identify changes to hardware acceleration for IKE

•  Identify features of the Solaris IP filter

Module 11: IPMP Changes

•  Identify changes to Singleton IPMP groups

•  Identify changes IPMP asynchronous event definition

Module 12: Other Changes

•  Identify changes to device allocation

•  Identify changes to domain names

•  Identify changes to DHCP