Solaris Training Overview
This course provides participants with a look at the new / changed functionality found
in the Solaris 10 Update 7 (05/09 release) Operating System (Solaris OS / Solaris OE).
This course is taught for the following platforms: Solaris Sparc and Solaris x86/x64.
Systems: Solaris 10 05/09 UPD 7, SPARC or x86/x64 hardware platforms.
Solaris Training Prerequisites
It is assumed that the participant has previous experience on a Solaris 8 or 9
system, preferably in a systems administrator role. Familiarlty with both command
line and CDE access to management tools is desirable, but is not mandatory.
Some programming experience (shell,awk, PERL, C) is helpful, but not required.
Solaris Training Course duration
This course requires four (4) days, approximately 70% lecture/hands-on, and
30 % lab exercises. A fully functioning Solaris 10 server will be used for
hands-on activities and lab time exercises.
Solaris Training Course Objectives
On completion of this course, a systems adminstrator should be able to upgrade an
existing Solaris system to version 10, or install a new version of Solaris 10; to
understand and integrate the changes in the startup mechanisms; create and
use zones where appropriate; use enhanced security features; use new file
systems features and types; and view many other architectural and management
features that are part of Solaris 10. The overall emphasis is to introduce the
many new and changed features from a practical administrative point of view.
DTrace/kstat scripts will be shown/executed as relevant to each module/topic.
Solaris Training Course outline
User- and Programmer- Level New Features and Changes
- CDE (GUI) customizations and changes in login capabilities
- The new JDS (Java Desktop System) Environment
- Installing and integrating the KDE desktop environment
- Converting from dtlogin to gdm-binary master GUI daemon
- Korn shell available variants and features
- Changes to other miscellaneous tools (awk, Perl, Ruby,...)
- Non-graphical login procedure changes and considerations
- Changes in build and support libraries
- New programmer support tools (elfdump, coverage analyzers)
An Introduction to kstat and DTrace
- Obtaining Kernel Static Framework (kstat) information
- kstat classes, modules, and locations
- Accessing kstat structures via shell scripts, C, and Perl
- Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) facility
- DTrace architecture
- Enable and list basics probes
- Introduction to action statements and D scripts
- Comparison of kstat and DTrace capabilities
Solaris 10 General Requirements
- Hardware (Inventory and levels)
- Partition requirements
- Swap space requirements
- Co-existance with other O/S (Solaris x86x64)
- Changes and comparisons in administrator tools (admintool / smc)
Installing Solaris 10
- Changes to the Solaris installation media
- Methods of starting a Solaris installation
- Post installation operations
Upgrading to Solaris 10
- Solaris migration paths
- Application issues
- Management tools changes/removals/additions
- Preparation for a static upgrade
- Sample static upgrade
- Using Live Upgrade
- Preparing and Using Flash Archives (flar)
Post Installation / Upgrade Operations
- Building formatted man pages and windex files
- Manipulating packages
- Changes in applying cluster (bundle) patches
- New and changed system tunables (parameters)
- Using mdb to view / change tunables
Boot and Startup Mechanisms
- Changes in the Solaris 10 boot (operations and components)
- Service Management Facility (SMF) architecture and components
- SMF commands and tools (svcs svccfg svcprop svcadm)
- GRUB implementation in Solaris 10 Update 5 x86/x64
- Customizing GRUB boot menus and features
- Integrating site-specific startup procedures
- Changes in system shutdown
COURSE TOPICS
- File Systems
- Identify changes to UFS
- Using ufsdump with file system snapshots (fssnap)
- Multi-Terabyte UFS (MTUFS)
- Using the Solaris Volume Manager
- Introduction to the Zettabyte File System (ZFS)
Zones and Containers
- Features of Solaris Zones
- The Global zone
- Configuring and installing zones (zonecfg)
- Zone control (zoneadm)
- Booting, shutting down, and halting zones
- Administering packages in zones
- Sharing zfs pools / file systems between zones
- Using resource pools and containers (poolcfg pooladm)
- Configuring CPU scheduling via dispamin and usage in containers
- Running native Linux applications in Solaris zones
Security
- Changes to password checking
- Using DAC effectively via ACLs
- Assigning privileges to processes and programs
- The role of the root account in Solaris 10
- Role Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Principle of Least Privilege
- Using Solaris 10 privileges (ppriv)
TCP/IP
- Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) changes
- Changes to the operations of TCP daemons
- Configuring IPFilter, TCPWrappers, IPSEC
- Using inetadm to control inetd operations
- Other changes to TCP and IP management utilities
Misceallenous New Features
- Configuring and Using StarOffice
- Using preap to eliminate zombie processes
- Configuration and startup of MySQL Lite Database services
- Updated utilities features (pmap, *stat programs)
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