Overview

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The System Administration for Solaris 10 OS, Part 1 course helps students gain expertise in the basic system administration concepts of Solaris 10. This course builds on the fundamentals of Solaris 10 taught in Solaris 10 Essentials. It teaches the system administrators how to perform basic system installation,configuration, operation and maintenance.

• Data Center Manager
• Network Administrator
• System Administrator

• Required Prerequisites
• Interact with a windowing system
• Perform basic UNIX tasks
• To succeed in this course, you should be able to create procedural application programs
• Understand basic UNIX commands
• Suggested Prerequisites
• Solaris 10 Operating System Essentials

• Use SMF administrative commands
• Perform user administration
• Control system processes
• Install software
• Manage file systems
• Manage disk labels and system devices
• Control and monitor network interfaces
• Perform mounts and unmounts
• Administer packages
• Obtain and use patches
• Perform system boot procedures

• Introducing File Systems
• Introducing File Components
• Identifying File Types
• Using Hard Links

• Basic architecture of a disk
• Oracle Solaris OS Naming Conventions for Devices
• Listing System Devices
• Reconfiguring Devices
• Partitioning a Hard Disk
• Extended Volume Table of Contents

• Identifying Disk-Based, Distributed, and Pseudo File Systems in the Oracle Solaris OS
• Analyzing the Oracle Solaris OS UNIX File System (UFS)Creating a New UFS File System
• Checking the File System Using the fsck Command
• Resolving File System Inconsistencies
• Monitoring File System Use

• Identifying Mounting Basics
• Performing Mounts
• Managing ZFS File Systems
• Performing Unmounts
• Repairing Important Files if Boot Fails
• Accessing a Mounted Diskette, CD-ROM, or DVD
• Restricting Access to a Mounted Diskette, CD-ROM, or DVD
• Accessing a Diskette, CD-ROM, or DVD Without Volume Management (vold)

• Describing the Oracle Solaris ZFS file system
• Understanding ZFS Terminology
• Creating New ZFS Pools and File Systems
• Destroying ZFS Pools and File Systems
• Modifying ZFS File System Properties
• Working With ZFS Snapshots and Clones

• Controlling and Monitoring Network Interfaces
• Configuring Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) Interfaces at Boot Time

• Describing the Fundamentals of Package Administration
• Administering Packages by Using the Command-Line Interface

• Describing Patch Administration Fundamentals
• Describing Patch Administration Best Practices
• Obtaining Patches From My Oracle Support
• Installing and Removing Patches
• Installing Oracle Solaris OS Recommended Patchsets
• Implementing Patch Management by Using the smpatch command

• Introducing Boot PROM Fundamentals
• Using Basic Boot PROM Commands
• Identifying the System’s Boot Device
• Creating and Removing Custom Device Aliases
• Viewing and Changing NVRAM Parameters From the shell
• Interrupting an Unresponsive System

• Introduction to GRUB
• Modifying x86 System Boot Behavior in the Oracle Solaris OS
• Using the findroot Command
• Managing GRUB Boot Archives
• Booting a System in the GRUB-Based Boot Environment
• Interrupting an Unresponsive System

• Describing the Oracle Solaris SPARC boot design
• Identifying Boot Process Phases
• Identifying Run-Level Fundamentals
• Controlling Boot Processes
• Performing System Shutdown Procedures

• Describing Service Management Facility (SMF) features
• Describing the “Secure by Default” Enhancement

• Describing the fundamentals of User Administration
• Managing User Accounts
• Managing Initialization Files

• Viewing System Processes
• Killing Frozen Processes
• Scheduling an Automatic One-Time Execution of a Command
• Scheduling an Automatic Recurring Execution of a Command

• Identifying the Hardware Requirements for Installation
• Identifying the Fundamentals of the Installations
• Identifying the Software Components for Installation
• Defining the Guidelines for Installation from a DVD
• Describing the “Secure by Default” Installation Enhancement