Date: 27-Nov-2009 URL: global/training/catalog/courses/SA-202-S10.xml

System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System, Part 2 (SA-202-S10)

The System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System, Part 2 course expands your mastery of the most advanced operating system on the planet: Solaris 10. This course provides students with hands-on experience working with more complex and integrated administration concepts, and builds upon the Part 1 course. Students will be instructed in essential system administration skills including: configuring network interfaces, managing swap configurations, crash dumps, and core files. The course also covers configuring NFS and AutoFS as well as system messaging, managing storage volumes and ZFS file systems, and setting up naming services and managing Solaris Zones. This course helps you to prepare for Part II of the Sun System Administration certification exam.

LAB INFORMATION: The hands-on labs offered in this course may involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.

Details below

Supports Sun Certification

Languages

English

Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course include individuals who are already familiar with core system administration tools and processes, and who have a fundamental understanding of the UNIX operating system, commands, and utilities.

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

Manage files and directories
Control the user work environment
Archive files
Use remote commands
Manage file systems
Install software
Perform system boot procedures
Perform user and security administration
Manage network printers and system processes
Perform system backups and restores

Skills Gained

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

Manage swap configurations
Manage core dumps
Configure NFS and AutoFS
Describe RAID
Work with ZFS
Control access and configure system messaging
Configure role-based access control (RBAC)
Set up name services
Work with Zones
Describe LDAP
Perform Live Upgrade and Jumpstart installation

Related Courses

Before:

System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System Part 1 (SA-200-S10)
UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 10 OS (WSB-100-S10-180)
UNIX Essentials Featuring the Solaris 10 OS (CDS-100-S10-ES)

After:

Course Content

Module 1 - Managing Swap Space, Crash Dumps and Core Files

Configure swap space
Manage crash dump behavior
Manage core file behavior

Module 2 - Configuring NFS

Describe the benefits of NFS
Describe the fundamentals of the NFS distributed file system
Manage an NFS server
Manage an NFS client
Enable the NFS server logging
Manage NFS with the Solaris Management Console storage folder tools
Troubleshoot NFS errors

Module 3 - Configuring AutoFS

Describe the fundamentals of the AutoFS file system
Use automount maps

Module 4 - Describing RAID

Describe RAID

Module 5 - Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software

Describe Solaris Volume Manager software concepts
Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for the root (/) file system

Module 6 - Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Describe RBAC fundamentals
Describe component interaction within RBAC
Manage RBAC by using the Solaris Management Console
Manage RBAC by using the command line

Module 7 - Configuring System Messaging

Describe the fundamentals of the syslog function
Configure the /etc/syslog.conf file
Configure syslog messaging
Use the Solaris Management Console log viewer

Module 8 - Using Name Services

Describe the name service concept
Describe the name service switch file /etc/nsswitch.conf
Describe the name service cache daemon (nscd)
Get name service information

Module 9 - Configuring Name Service Clients

Configure a DNS client
Configure an LDAP client

Module 10 - Introduction to Zones

Identify the different zones features
Understand how and why zone partitioning is used
Configure zones
Install zones
Boot zones
Move a zone
Migrate a zone
Delete a zone
Administer packages with zones
Upgrade the Solaris 10 OS with installed zones
Use 1x Branded Zones

Module 11 - Introduction to LDAP

Understand the use of LDAP as a naming service
Describe basic LDAP concepts and terminology
Identify the Directory Server Enterprise Edition requirements
Identify Solaris LDAP Client requirements

Module 12 - Configuring JumpStart Installation Using the Solaris 10 Operating System

Describe the JumpStart configurations
Implement a basic JumpStart server for SPARCA and x86/x64 clients
Describe booting x86/x64 systems using the Preboot Execution Environment (PXE)
Set up a DHCP server to support x86/x64 JumpStart clients
Set up JumpStart software configuration alternatives
Set up JumpStart to create a ZFS mirrored root pool
Troubleshoot JumpStart configurations

Module 13 - Performing Live Upgrade Using the Solaris 10 Operating System

Describe the benefits of using Live Upgrade
Describe the Solaris Live Upgrade process
Describe Solaris Live Upgrade requirements
Identify the Solaris Live Upgrade commands
Create an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
Create a differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
Modify the state of the new boot environment
Extend a base boot environment with a differential flash archive
Use Live Upgrade to patch a system
Using JumpStart to implement a Live Upgrade environment