Solaris 11 Systems Administration

Install Solaris 11 Using the Interactive Installer

• Preparation for the Installation.
• Performing and Installation interactively.
• Post-install verification.

Managing Software, and Updating Solaris 11 Using IPS

• IPS Repositories.
• Package searching and listing facilities.
• Installing packages and package groups.
• Verifying the installation of packages
• Uninstalling packages.
• Using the packagemanager GUI.
• Keeping the system up-to-date (No more patches!)

System Startup and shutdown, and managing system services with SMF

• Managing and monitoring system services with SMF
• Integrating new services with an XML manifest and control script.
• System boot procedures, including boot troubleshooting.
• Shutdown procedures.

Configuration of ZFS Storage Pools

• Creating a ZFS Storage Pool from raw disk devices.
• Includes linear, raid 1 mirrors and raid Z devices.
• Adding capacity to a pool, and replacing faulty components; how to use hot spares.
• Displaying Pool status, and managing pool properties.
• Monitoring pool performance.
• Destroying a pool.

ZFS Datasets (a.k.a. File Systems)

• Creating and destroying datasets.
• Displaying and changing the many dataset properties, such as quotas, compression, etc.
• Displaying dataset status and information.
• Mounting and datasets.

Using ZFS Snapshots and Clones

• Taking a snapshot of a dataset, including recursive snapshots.
• Renaming snapshots, including recusively.
• Destroy a snapshot, including recursive snapshots; roll back to a snapshot.
• Displaying snapshot information, such as space usage.
• Creating a clone (a writeable fork of a snapshot); promoting a clone.
• Destroying a clone.

Configuring and Managing Zones

• Define the configuration for a new zone, and verify.
• Install a new zone.
• Access the zone.
• Zone control, such as startup and shutdown.
• Displaying and interpreting zone zonfigurations.
• Monitoring zones.
• Introduction to zone resource controls.

Configuring a Physical Network devices.

• Display datalink with dladm.
• Network profiles (dynamic and static)
• Overview of NWAM (NetWork Auto Magic)
• Configuring a network interface with ipadm.
• Managing a network interface
• IPMP overview.
• Validate network functionality.

User Account management

• User and group concepts.
• Adding and removing users and groups.
• Managing users and groups.
• Password management, including aging.
• Configuring the user environment (shell profiles)
• Implementing disk quotas under ZFS datasets (ZFS and User quotas are available)

Managing Access to the system and directory structure

• Login and password security fundamentals.
• Replacing the Password encryption processes.
• Testing and verifying secure access controls.

Controlling Access to Files and directories

• Protecting Files with Basic Permissions using chmod and chown.
• Identifying  and guarding against commands with a potential security risk.
• Using simple ACL’s (Access Control Lists).

Remote access using Secure Shell

• Secure shell commands (ssh, scp and sftp)
• The sshd daemon; configure, enable and disable.
• Configuring the client side.

Control and Manage System Processes

• Display system processes with ps and top, etc.
• Manage system processes.
• Kill a process.

Managing the crontab system

• Create modify crontab jobs for repetitive tasks.
• Restricting access to crontab
• Using at for one-off jobs.

System Logs, Kernel Crash and Process Core Dump Files

• System log processes and management.
• Managing kernel crash dumps.
• Managing process core dumps.

Troubleshooting

• Troubleshooting scenarios, hints and tips, etc. are an inherent part of the course.
• Typical scenarios include boot problems, permissions issues, user mis-configuration, software update problems, network connectivity, and many others.
• These issues are not tackled separately, but as part of the main course content, and in the context of real practical examples.