Solaris 10 System Administration - Part II

Session 2: NFS/CACHE FS

• Network File System (NFS)
• NFS Terminology
• NFS Server
• NFS Client
• NFS Server Configuration
• /etc/dfs/dfstab File
• NFS Server Configuration - SMC
• Other NFS Commands
• NFS Client Configuration
• The mount Command
• Mounting a Local Resource
• Mounting a Remote Resource
• Responding to server failure - mount options
• Multiple Hosts
• Unmounting a Resource
• NFS Client Configuration - SMC
• Troubleshooting NFS
• Cache File System (Cachefs)
• Cachefs Terminology
• Creating a Cache File System
• Cachefs Statistics and Consistency
• Cachefs Logging
• Removing Cache File System
• NFS Logging - user access
• Exercise: Setting up an NFS server and client

Session 3: AUTOMOUNT

• Automount Utility
• Automount Maps
• Registering Changes for Automount
• automount -v
• Exercise: Setting up an automount client

Session 4: SOLARIS VOLUME MANAGER (SVM)

• Disk Management and File System Review
• RAID Technology and Volumes
• RAID Modes
• SVM Tools
• Volume Management Operations
• State Database Replicas
• Creating State Database Replicas
• Creating a Disk Concatenation
• SVM Commands and Files
• Creating State Database Replicas - the metadb command
• metadevices
• metstat command
• Creating a Concatenation of two disk slices
• Creating and Managing Mirrors
• Creating File Systems on Volumes
• Deleting a Metadevice
• Dynamically Growing Existing File Systems
• Mirroring Volumes and backup of Mirrors
• Exercises:
  • Creating a database and concatenation volume
  • Growing a file system

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  Session 5: MANAGING SWAP SPACE

  • Swap Space
  • Configuring Swap Space
  • Adding a Swap File on an Existing File System
  • Disabling Swap Space
  • Exercise: Setting up an extra swap area

  Session 6: JUMPSTART

  • Interactive Installation Review
  • Automatic Installation
  • Principles of JumpStart
  • Server Setup for JumpStart
  • Configuring NIS to Support JumpStart
  • Locale
  • Ethernet Address
  • IP Address and Hostname
  • TimeZone
  • Netmasks
  • Bootparams
  • Timehost Alias
  • Configuring Non NIS Server for JumpStart
  • Configuration Directory
  • Rules File
  • Class File
  • Check Utility
  • Install/Boot Server Installation
  • setup_install_server Utility
  • add_install_client Utility
  • Setting up DHCP for Intel clients
  • Overview of WAN Boot Installation
  • Installing a new Client
  • Jumpstart troubleshooting
  • Exercise: Setting up a jumpstart server and client

  Solaris 10 System Administration - Part II Training Course

  Session 7: MANAGING FLASH ARCHIVES

  • Flash Archive Definition
  • Creating a Flash Archive
  • Restoring a Flash Archive
  • Specifying the Location of the Flash Archive to be Restored
  • Jumpstart Installation Considerations
  • Displaying Flash Archive Information

  Session 8: LIVE UPGRADE OVERVIEW

  • Live Upgrade description
  • Basic procedures
  • lucreate and luupdate commands
  • lucativate an lustatus commands
  • Live Upgrade Example
  • Exercise

  Session 9: DUMP FILE CONFIGURATION

  • Dump File Definition
  • System Crash Dumps
  • Displaying the System Crash Dump Configuration
  • Modifying the System Crash Dump Configuration
  • Core Dumps
  • Displaying the Core Dump Configuration
  • Modifying the Core Dump Configuration
  • Exercises:
    • Displaying the system crash dump configuration
    • Displaying and setting the core dump configuration

  Session 10: SYSLOG

  • syslog Configuration
  • The /etc/syslog.conf Configuration File
  • Facility
  • Security Level
  • Action
  • The M4 Utility
  • Editing the syslog.conf File
  • Logging Telnet, FTP and other Networking Daemon
  • The SMC Log Viewer
  • Testing syslogd Logging

  Solaris 10 System Administration - Part II Training Course

  Session 11: ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL (RBAC)

  • Traditional Unix Security vs RBAC
  • The RBAC Security Model
  • Main Attributes and Associated Files
  • Linking Attributes and their Files together
  • Attribute File Formats
  • Configuring RBAC Examples
  • Using SMC in the RBAC Environment
  • Exercise: Defining & testing a file system's management role

  Session 12: ZONES

  • Basic Description
  • Main Features and Benefits
  • Zone Configuration Settings and Characteristics
  • Creating Zones
  • User Access to Zones
  • Managing the Zone State
  • Zone System Processes
  • Exercise: Configuring and enabling a Zone

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