System Administration for the Oracle Solaris 10 OS Part 1

Course Description

The System Administration for the Oracle Solaris 10 Operating System, Part 1 course gets you further engaged with the most efficient, secure, and reliable operating system ever built. This course gives you direct experience with the most essential system administration tasks in the Oracle Solaris 10 OS. You will be instructed in crucial system management skills including: managing local disk devices, managing UFS and ZFS file systems, installing and removing Solaris packages and patches, performing system boot procedures and system processes. This course is the first of a two-part series that helps you to prepare for Part I of the Oracle Certified Professional: Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator examination.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. This course is also available as part of an all-inclusive Certification Value Package.Packages include training, an ePractice exam, the actual exam and an extra retake exam just in case you need it.

Skills Gained

• Manage file systems and local disk drives
• Perform system boot procedures
• Perform mounts and unmounts
• Control system processes
• Perform user administration
• Use the Service Management Facility
• Perform package administration
• Manage software patches

Who Can Benefit

• Data Center Manager
• Network Administrator
• System Administrator

Prerequisites

• Perform basic UNIX tasks
• Understand basic UNIX commands
• Use the vi text editor
• Interact with a windowing system

Syllabus

Introducing the Solaris 10 OS Directory Hierarchy

• Describe file systems
• Identify file components
• Identify file types
• Describe hard links

Managing Local Disk Devices

• Describe the basic architecture of a disk
• Describe the naming conventions for devices
• List system devices
• Reconfigure devices
• Perform hard disk partitioning
• Manage disk labels
• Perform EFI disk labels
• Use an extended table of contents

Interface Configurations

• Control and monitor network interfaces
• Configure Internet Protocol, version 4 (IPv4) interfaces at boot time

Managing Solaris OS Unix File System (UFS)

• Identify disk-based, distributed, and pseudo file systems in the Solaris OS
• Describe the Solaris OS UFS
• Create a new ufs file system
• Check the file system using the fsck command
• Resolve file system inconsistencies
• Monitor file system use

Introduction to the ZFS File System

• Describe the Solaris ZFS file system
• Create a basic ZFS file system
• List ZFS storage pool components
• Create and destroy ZFS pools and file systems
• Destroy ZFS snapshots and clones
• Send and receive ZFS data
• List ZFS Storage Pool Replication features

Performing Mounts and Unmounts

• Explain mounting basics
• Perform mounts and unmounts
• Access a mounted diskette, CD-ROM, or DVD
• Restrict access to a mounted diskette, CD-ROM, or DVD
• Access a diskette or CD-ROM without Volume Management (vold)
• Manage ZFS mount points

Performing Solaris 10 OS Package Administration

• Describe the fundamentals of package administration
• Administer packages using the command-line interface

Managing Software Patches on the Solaris 10 OS

• Describe the fundamentals of patch administration
• Describe patch administration best practices
• Install and remove patches
• Install recommended patch clusters
• Implement patch management using the smpatch command
• Configure the patch management environment

Using Boot PROM Commands

• Identify boot programmable read-only memory (PROM) fundamentals
• Use basic boot PROM commands
• Identify the systems boot device
• Create and remove custom device aliases
• View and change nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) parameters from the shell
• Interrupt an unresponsive system

Using the Grand Unified Bootloader

• Modify x86 system boot behavior in the Solaris OS
• Use the eeprom command
• Use the kernel command
• Describe and manage GRUB boot archives
• Boot a system in the GRUB-based boot environment
• Interrupt an unresponsive system
• Discuss the purpose of the Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB)

Performing Legacy Boot and Shutdown Procedures

• Identify the phases of the boot process
• Identify run level fundamentals
• Control boot processes
• Perform system shutdown procedures
• Describe the Solaris SPARC boot design

Using the Service Management Facility

• Describe the Service Management Facility (SMF) features
• Compare run levels and SMF milestones
• Use SMF administrative commands

Performing User Administration

• Describe user administration fundamentals
• Set password aging on a user account
• Manage user accounts
• Manage initialization files

Controlling System Processes

• View system processes
• Kill frozen processes
• Schedule an automatic one-time execution of a command
• Schedule an automatic recurring execution of a command

Solaris 10 Operating System Installation Requirements

• Identify hardware requirements for Solaris 10 OS installation
• Identify the fundamentals of the Solaris 10 OS installations
• Identify the Solaris 10 OS software components
• Define guidelines to install the Solaris 10 OS from a DVD
• Describe the Secure by Default installation enhancement