Solaris 11 System Administration – Level 1
Your services rely on systems whose operation must remain under control. With Solaris, connect commands, configurations and operations to work more methodically. Build your autonomy and ability to contribute to running the environment.
- Duration
- 5 days 35 hours
- Code
- SOL104FR Code
Presentation
This UNIX System Administration Level 1 course develops participants' understanding of intermediate Solaris system administration concepts.
Objectives
Through practical exercises, participants learn the concepts involved in administering a local system:
- Installing and extending the Solaris operating environment.
- Practical storage management.
- Practical user and security management.
Program
Installing Solaris 11
- Installation types.
- Minimum system requirements.
- Interactive LiveCD and text-mode installation.
- Administering boot environments (BEs).
Package administration
- Installing and removing a package.
- Package information.
- Overview of IPS (Image Packaging System).
- 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.
Zone management
- Overview of Solaris virtualisation.
- Installing, configuring and removing a zone.
- Administering a zone.
Configuring network interfaces
- Static addressing.
- Dynamic addressing.
- Configuring interfaces at boot time.
- Configuring routing.
- Network commands and analysis utilities.
- DNS client.
- Introduction to SSH.
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 management and monitoring
- System access.
- sudo.
- RBAC.
- Monitoring.
- syslog.
- System logs.
- Crash dumps.
Audience
This course is intended for participants with UNIX user knowledge and UNIX administrators seeking to develop their skills in a Solaris environment.
Prerequisites
Knowledge of Unix or Linux user commands.
Teaching and assessment methods
- Initial skills assessment
- Training materials provided to participants
- Continuous assessment throughout the course
- End-of-course feedback questionnaire
- Combination of theory and practical application
- Attendance records
- Post-course follow-up evaluation
Dates and sessions
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