Oracle Solaris 10 System Administration 1

Oracle Solaris 10 System Administration 1

Detailed Course Outline

Overview of the Solaris 10 Operating Environment

• System concepts
• The main parts of the Solaris OS
• The Client/Server environment
• Describe the Solaris 10 Directory Hierarchy
  • Understand Solaris 10 file types
  • Understand hard links and soft links

System Startup and Shutdown Procedures – SPARC-Based Systems

• Understand phases of the boot process – SPARC
• Booting the system
• The Advanced Lights Out Manager (ALOM)
• Understanding OpenBoot and programmable read-only memory (PROM)
  • OpenBoot Firmware tasks
  • PROM fundamentals 
  • PROM commands and syntax
  • Understand how to view and set PROM parameters from (OpenBoot and the shell)
  • Understand how to view and set device aliases
  • OpenBoot security
  • OpenBoot diagnostics
• Boot PROM and program phases
• Stopping the system for recovery purposes (Interrupting an unresponsive system)
• Understand the pros and cons of the various shutdown procedures

System Startup and Shutdown Procedures – x86/x64-Based Systems

• Understand phases of the boot process – x86-based systems
• The BIOS, Boot archive, and GRUB
• Configuring the video display
• Understand the pros and cons of the various shutdown procedures

GRUB – Grand Unified Bootloader (x86/x64 platform)

• Introduction to GRUB
  • How GRUB based booting works
• Modifying boot behavior with GRUB
• Use the eeprom and kernel commands
• GRUB device naming conventions
• Booting the x86-based system with GRUB
• GRUB boot archives
  • Boot the failsafe archive for recovery
• Interrupting and unresponsive system

Service Management Facility (SMF)

• Describe features of the SMF and the phases of the boot process
  • The init process and the /etc/inittab file
  • svc.startd daemon (master starter/restarter)
• Understand services and service instances
• Understand the SMF manifest
• Creating the manifestUnderstand the SMF repository database
  • Modify the service configuration repository
• Understand the Fault Management Resource Identifier (FMRI)
• Understand service dependencies
• Identify run level fundamentals
  • Describe SMF Milestones
  • Changing milestones
• Compare run levels and SMF milestones
  • Understand when to use a SMF service vs. a legacy service
  • Identify phases of the boot process
• SMF command line administration utilities
  • Display information about services
• Starting and stopping services using SMF
• Starting services during boot
• Troubleshooting SMF problems
• Control boot processes and services
• SMF message logging
• Creating new service scripts
  • Convert a legacy service to a SMF managed service
• Legacy services
  • Administering the SMF
  • Troubleshooting SMF
• Using run control scripts to stop / start legacy services
  • Adding scripts to the run control directories

Installing the Solaris 10 Software

• Requirements and preparation for installing the Solaris 10 software
  • Supported architectures
  • Minimum system requirements

• Software Terminology: Packages, Groups (Clusters), and Configuration Groups
  • Software package
  • Software groups and configuration groups
• Upgrade vs. Initial installation
• Disk storage systems
  • Considerations for planning partition sizes
  • Partition arrangements on multiple disks
• Methods of installing the Solaris 10 software
  • Interactive (CLI)
  • Custom JumpStart
  • Flash Archive
  • WAN boot
  • Live Upgrade
• Secure by Default
• The Solaris interactive installation process
• Installation and Secure by Default

Managing Local Disk Devices

• Describe disk architecture
• Describe device naming conventions
  • Physical device name
  • Instance name
  • Logical device name
  • Block and character device files
  • Tools to list devices
• Describe the format utility
  • Perform disk partitioning using the format utility
  • Perform disk partitioning using the Solaris Management Console (SMC)

Managing File Systems

• A file system defined
• Defining a disk’s geometry
  • Disk controller
  • Defect list
  • Disk label (EFI vs. SMI labels)
  • Partition table
  • Formatting SPARC and x86 drives
• Solaris file system types
  • Disk-based file systems (UFS, ZFS, HSFS, PCFS)
  • Network-based file systems
  • Virtual file systems (SWAPFS, PROCFS, LOFS, CacheFS, DEVfs, TMPFS)
• Disk slices
• Displaying disk configuration information
• Using format
• Logical volumes
• Parts of a UFS file system
  • The bootblock
  • The superblock
  • The inode
  • The storage block
  • Free blocks
• Creating a UFS file system
• Understanding custom file system parameters
• File system operations
  • Synchronizing a file system
  • Repairing file systems
  • Using fsck

Mounting and Unmounting File Systems

• Mounting file systems
  • The /etc/vfstab file
  • Using the mount command
  • Displaying mounted file systems
  • Mounting a file system with large files
  • Mounting a file system with UFS logging enabled
  • The /etc/mnttab file
• Displaying a file system’s disk space usage
• Displaying directory size information
• Controlling user disk space usage
• Constructing a file system
• Large vs. Small files
• Unmounting a file system
  • The fuser command
• Volume manager (vold)
  • Troubleshooting volume manager
  • Using fdformat
• Information on file systems
• Troubleshooting file systems

Introduction to the ZFS File System

• Introduction to ZFS
  • ZFS Terms
  • Hardware and Software requirements for ZFS
  • What is Self-Healing?
• ZFS RAID configurations
• Create a ZFS file system
  • Rename a ZFS file system
  • Listing a ZFS file system
• Understand the SMF repository database
  • Modify the service configuration repository
• Remove a ZFS file system
• Remove a ZFS Storage Pool
• ZFS Components
  • Disks, Files, Virtual Devices
  • Naming convention
• Using disks in a ZFS storage pool
• Using files in a ZFS storage pool
• Mirrored storage pools
  • Converting a non-redundant pool to a mirrored pool
  • Detach a device from a mirrored pool
• RAID-Z storage pools
• Displaying ZFS storage pool information
• Adding devices to a ZFS storage pool
• Attaching and Detaching devices in a storage pool
• Taking storage pool devices offline and online
• ZFS history
• ZFS properties
  • Native and settable properties
  • Setting ZFS properties
• Mounting ZFS file systems
• Legacy mount points
• Sharing ZFS file systems
• ZFS Web-based management GUI
• ZFS snapshots
  • Creating snapshots
  • Listing snapshot information
  • Saving and Restoring a ZFS snapshot
  • Renaming a ZFS snapshot
  • Rolling back a ZFS snapshot
  • Save/Restore to a remote system
• ZFS Clones
  • Creating and destroying ZFS clones
  • Replacing a ZFS file system with a ZFS clone
• Zpool scrubbing
• Replacing Devices in a Storage Pool
• Using ZFS with Solaris Zones
  • Adding a ZFS dataset to a non-global zone
  • Delegating a ZFS dataset to a non-global zone
• Emulated volumes
  • Using ZFS as a swap or dump device
• Designating hot spares in a storage pool

The Solaris Network Environment

• The Solaris Client/Server mode
• Network interfaces Network Hardware
  • Configuring and Monitoring network interfaces
  • Configuring static information
  • Configuring dhcp
• Configuring the Network Interface
  • /etc/hostname.interface
  • /etc/nodename
  • /etc/defaultdomain
  • /etc/inet/hosts
• Configuring Network Services
  • Enable and disable server processes using the Service Management Service (SMF)
  • Understanding inetd and the inetd.conf file in the SMF environment
  • Starting services on well-known ports
  • Using inetadm
• Understand and monitor RPC services
• Network Security Files
• Understand how to configure the secure shell (ssh)
• Network Maintenance and Troubleshooting

System Security

• Physical security
• Controlling system access
• User account information
• Restricted shells
• Controlling file access
  • umask
  • Sticky bit
  • Setting the correct PATH
  • setuid / setgid programs
• Auditing users
  • Monitoring users and system usage
  • Checking who’s logged in
  • The whodo command
  • The last command
• Network security
• Securing superuser access
• Automated security enhancement tool (ASET)
• Common sense security techniques
• Securing services

Administering User Accounts

• Describe user administration fundamentals
• Adding, modifying, and deleting a user account from the command line and SMC
  • Adding a group from the command line and SMC
  • Setting up and customizing the user’s shell
• Managing initialization files
  • The /home directory
  • Name services

Software Package Administration

• Describe fundamentals of package administration
• Tools for managing software from the command line and from the system GUI tools
  • Adding and removing software packages
  • Listing and verifying installed packages

Managing Software Patches on the Solaris 10 OS

• The fundamentals of patch administration
• Installing / verifying / removing a patch and patch clusters
• Introducing Sun Connection services
  • Using Sun connection services to automate patching
  • Using the update manager from the GUI and from the command line

Controlling System Processes

• Viewing system processes
  • Commands used to monitor system resources and processes
  • PROC tools
• Process types
• Using signals
  • The kill command
• Scheduling processes
  • The fair share scheduler (FSS)
  • Scheduling and changing process priorities
  • The nice and priocntl commands
• Clear frozen and “zombie” processes
• Using the Solaris batch-processing facility to schedule execution of commands
  • Configuring crontab for executing recurring processes
  • Using the at command for automatic one-time execution of a command

Backup and Recovery

• Backup and recovery fundamentals
• Solaris backup and restoration utilities
  • Using the tar, dd, cpio, and pax utilites
  • Using ufsdump and ufsrestore
• Recovering the root (/) and /usr file system
• Backing up a mounted file system
• Creating a UFS snapshot
• Backing up the snapshot file
• Creating a Flash Archive

Overview of the Solaris Certified System Administrator Certification Process

• Why become certified?
• Overview of the certification and testing process.
• How to prepare for the 1Z0-877 exam.
• What to expect on the certification exam