The System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System, Part 2 course expands your mastery of the most advanced operating system on the planet: Solaris 10. This course provides students with hands-on experience working with more complex and integrated administration concepts, and builds upon the Part 1 course. Students will be instructed in essential system administration skills including: configuring network interfaces, managing swap configurations, crash dumps, and core files. The course also covers configuring NFS and AutoFS as well as system messaging, managing storage volumes and ZFS file systems, and setting up naming services and managing Solaris Zones. This course helps you to prepare for Part II of the Sun System Administration certification exam. LAB INFORMATION: The hands-on labs offered in this course may involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.

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Students who can benefit from this course include individuals who are already familiar with core system administration tools and processes, and who have a fundamental understanding of the UNIX operating system, commands, and utilities.

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Manage files and directories
• Control the user work environment
• Archive files
• Use remote commands
• Manage file systems
• Install software
• Perform system boot procedures
• Perform user and security administration
• Manage network printers and system processes
• Perform system backups and restores

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

• Manage swap configurations
• Manage core dumps
• Configure NFS and AutoFS
• Describe RAID
• Work with ZFS
• Control access and configure system messaging
• Configure role-based access control (RBAC)
• Set up name services
• Work with Zones
• Describe LDAP
• Perform Live Upgrade and Jumpstart installation

Module 1 - Managing Swap Space, Crash Dumps and Core Files

• Configure swap space
• Manage crash dump behavior
• Manage core file behavior

• Describe the benefits of NFS
• Describe the fundamentals of the NFS distributed file system
• Manage an NFS server
• Manage an NFS client
• Enable the NFS server logging
• Manage NFS with the Solaris Management Console storage folder tools
• Troubleshoot NFS errors

• Describe the fundamentals of the AutoFS file system
• Use automount maps

• Describe RAID

• Describe Solaris Volume Manager software concepts
• Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
• Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for the root (/) file system

• Describe RBAC fundamentals
• Describe component interaction within RBAC
• Manage RBAC by using the Solaris Management Console
• Manage RBAC by using the command line

• Describe the fundamentals of the syslog function
• Configure the /etc/syslog.conf file
• Configure syslog messaging
• Use the Solaris Management Console log viewer

• Describe the name service concept
• Describe the name service switch file /etc/nsswitch.conf
• Describe the name service cache daemon (nscd)
• Get name service information

• Configure a DNS client
• Configure an LDAP client

• Identify the different zones features
• Understand how and why zone partitioning is used
• Configure zones
• Install zones
• Boot zones
• Move a zone
• Migrate a zone
• Delete a zone
• Administer packages with zones
• Upgrade the Solaris 10 OS with installed zones
• Use 1x Branded Zones

• Understand the use of LDAP as a naming service
• Describe basic LDAP concepts and terminology
• Identify the Directory Server Enterprise Edition requirements
• Identify Solaris LDAP Client requirements

• Describe the JumpStart configurations
• Implement a basic JumpStart server for SPARCA and x86/x64 clients
• Describe booting x86/x64 systems using the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
• Set up a DHCP server to support x86/x64 JumpStart clients
• Set up JumpStart software configuration alternatives
• Set up JumpStart to create a ZFS mirrored root pool
• Troubleshoot JumpStart configurations

• Describe the benefits of using Live Upgrade
• Describe the Solaris Live Upgrade process
• Describe Solaris Live Upgrade requirements
• Identify the Solaris Live Upgrade commands
• Create an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
• Create a differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
• Modify the state of the new boot environment
• Extend a base boot environment with a differential flash archive
• Use Live Upgrade to patch a system
• Using JumpStart to implement a Live Upgrade environment