Solaris 11 Administration for Administrators

Installing Solaris 11

• Installation types.
• Minimum system requirements.
• Interactive LiveCD and text-mode installation.
• Administering boot environments (BEs).
• Installing from DVD.
• Installing and configuring an AI server.
• Configuring AI clients.
• Managing manifests.
• Creating a new image.
• Migrating JumpStart profiles to AI.

Package administration

• Installing and removing a package.
• Package information.
• Overview of IPS (Image Packaging System).
• Managing publishers.
• Creating a local publisher.
• Handling packages in an inactive boot environment.
• Creating an inactive BE from a backup.
• Updating the system.

Introduction to OpenBoot PROM

• Information commands.
• Identifying the boot device.
• Changing NVRAM settings.
• Creating a new alias.

Introduction to GRUB

• Understanding the configuration file.
• Passing a kernel parameter at boot time.
• Making a disk bootable.

Startup and shutdown procedures

• Boot phases.
• Run levels.
• Startup procedures.
• Shutdown procedure.
• Commands.

Service Management Facility (SMF)

• Terminology.
• Milestones.
• Stopping and starting a service.
• Service states.
• Securing the system.
• Adding or removing a service.

Storage management

• Naming and adding devices.
• Disks.
• Partitioning.
• Introduction to ZFS.
• Creating and destroying RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID Z1, RAID Z2 and RAID Z3 storage pools.
• ZFS properties.
• Creating and destroying a ZFS file system.
• Snapshots.
• Clones.
• iSCSI and COMSTAR.
• Shadow Data Migration.
• Differential snapshots.
• Deduplication.
• Splitting a mirrored pool.

Storage backup, recovery and maintenance

• Backup and recovery strategies.
• Local and remote backups.
• Incident management.
• Replacing a failed disk.
• Correcting corrupted data.

Zone management

• Overview of Solaris virtualisation.
• Installing, configuring and removing a zone.
• Administering a zone.
• Virtual network overview.
• Virtual devices, hubs, switches and routers.
• Managing a zone's resources, storage, memory and CPU.

Network management

• Static addressing.
• Dynamic addressing.
• Configuring interfaces at boot time.
• Configuring routing.
• Commands.
• Networks and analysis utilities.
• DNS client.
• Introduction to SSH.
• Introduction to NWAM (NetWork Auto Magic).
• IP multipathing (IPMP).
• Probe-based and link-based configurations.
• Link aggregation.

NFS

• Configuring an NFS server.
• Configuring an NFS client.
• Share and mount options.

User administration

• Overview of key files.
• Creating a user.
• Initialisation files for environment configuration.
• Quotas.

Process management

• Sending a signal to a process.
• The p-commands.
• Managing background processes.
• Automating one-off or recurring process execution (at and crontab).

Security and monitoring

• System access.
• sudo.
• RBAC.
• Monitoring.
• syslog.
• System logs.
• ZFS auditing.
• Auditing by zone.
• BART (Basic Audit Reporting Tool).

System optimisation and fault analysis

• Resource control.
• DTrace.
• Performance analysis.
• Fault analysis.
• Core dump analysis.
• System crash analysis.