Tailored for system administrators, IT architects, and Data center architects, this Sun Ops Center Administration course provides the practical experience you need to successfully deploy and administer Sun Ops Center in your data center. The course also describes underlying technologies and best practices for deployment. Sun Ops Center offers a comprehensive management solution for physical and virtual system resources. This enterprise-class solution simplifies resource discovery and monitoring, provides operating system and firmware provisioning, performs comprehensive update and patch management, manages virtual environments such as Solaris Containers and Logical Domains, and supports hardware management from power up to production. Using Sun Ops Center will enable you to manage thousands of systems simultaneously.

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Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators, IT architects, and other individuals tasked with the following responsibilities: Data center planning Administering heterogeneous server platforms Administering heterogeneous operating system environments Installing and configuring Sun Ops Center Administering Sun Ops Center

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

• Administer the Solaris 10 OS
• Administer Ethernet networks
• Perform basic Sun server initial setup tasks

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

• Explore Sun Ops Center architecture
• Prepare a datacenter for Sun Ops Center installation
• Install Sun Ops Center
• Discover/register hardware asset (client system, manual discovery)
• Discover/register OS asset (client system, manual discovery)
• Discover/register software (server system, service tag)
• Load OS image
• Create OS profile
• Load firmware image
• Create firmware profile
• Install OS
• Create system inventory
• Create update profile
• Create update policy
• Create update job (install package or patch)
• Compare inventories
• Run a baseline report
• Run a CVE compliance report
• View monitored data for hardware
• View monitored OS data
• Set monitor thresholds for OS

Module 1 - Sun Ops Center Overview

• IT Challenges and Value Proposition
• Sun Ops Center Overview
• Sun Ops Center Features
• Sun Ops Center Benefits

• Sun Ops Center Architecture
• Communications in Ops Center
• Ops Center Technologies
• Ops Center Product Capabilities

• Use Cases and Requirements
• HA Configuration
• Software Installation Process and Recommendations
• Basic Configuration Walkthrough
• Post Configuration Validation
• Configuration Options
• Installing Proxy Controllers
• Uninstallation

• Discovery, Registration and Management of Assets Overview
• Discovering Assets
• Registering Discovered Assets
• Managing Discovered Assets

• Management and Monitoring Overview
• System Management and Monitoring
• OS Management and Monitoring
• Managing Groups of Assets

• Introduction to Ops Center Libraries
• Managing the OS Provisioning Library
• Managing the Firmware Provisioning Library

• OS Provisioning Overview
• Managing OS Profiles
• Configuring DHCP
• Provisioning an OS
• Installing JET Modules
• Running Scripts in OS Provisioning

• Firmware Provisioning Overview
• Managing Firmware Profiles
• Provisioning Firmware
• Using Firmware Compliance Reports

• Update Management Overview
• Update Management Prerequisites
• Managing Updates with Ops Center
• Using Catalogs to Manage Updates
• Running Reports in Ops Center

• Storage Library Management Overview
• Managing Fibre Channel Libraries
• Managing NAS Libraries
• Using Storage Libraries

• Managing Solaris Containers Overview
• Creating and Deleting Zones
• Modifying Zone Configuration
• Discovering and Managing Zones
• Monitoring Zones
• Changing Zone States
• Adding Storage to Zones
• Managing Zone Networks
• Cloning Zones

• Introducing Logical Domains
• Provisioning the Control Domain
• Logical Domain Host Operations
• Creating a Guest Domain
• Provisioning a Guest Domain/
• Monitoring a Guest Domain
• Guest Domain Life Cycle Operations
• Migrating a Guest Domain

• Disconnected Mode Configuration
• Managing Local Software Updates
• Updating the Windows OS
• Updating with Solaris Live Upgrade

• Using Administration Scripts
• Managing Users
• Managing Notifications
• Managing Roles
• Viewing Agent Controllers
• Viewing Proxy Controllers
• Viewing Log Files