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New Features of Solaris 10
(for Experienced Solaris Administrators)




SUMMARY:   The course introduces delegates who are familiar with Solaris 8 or 9 to the new features introduced in the Solaris 10 Operating System.

AUDIENCE:   Experienced system administrators who are migrating to Solaris 10 from Solaris 8 or Solaris 9.

PREREQUISITES:   Delegates should be familiar with the tasks required to be able to administer the Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 Operating Environment.

DURATION:   5 Days.

APPROACH:   This course is instructor led, with strong emphasis on hands-on practical sessions to reinforce the concepts introduced in the classroom.

OBJECTIVES:   The course describes:
• The concept of zones and how to configure them
• Changes to security and authentication features
• Changes to the UFS file system
• An introduction to ZFS
• Fault and service management
• DTrace, and how to use it
• Changes to the Internet Protocol and Networking Features
• Changes to the Solaris 10 installation procedure

COURSE CONTENT:  

 


       I.      ZONES



  • Introducing Solaris Zones
  • How and why zone partitioning is used
  • Configuring zones
  • Boot zones
  • Configuring resource pools and zone-wide resource controls
  • Establishing physical memory controls using the resource capping daemon
  • Administering packages in zones

    II.      AUTHENTICATION CHANGES



  • Changes to password checking
  • Features of Least Privilege
  • Changes to Kerberos

 III.      FILE SYSTEM FEATURES



  • Changes to UFS
  • Introducing ZFS

  IV.      FAULT AND SERVICE MANAGEMENT



  • Introducing The Fault Management Architecture
  • Introducing the Service Management Facility

     V.      INTRODUCING DTRACE



  • Introduction to the Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace) facility
  • The DTrace architecture
  • List and enable probes, and create action statements and D scripts

  VI.      USING DTRACE



  • DTrace performance monitoring capabilities
  • Using the vminfo provider to examine performance problems
  • Using the sysinfo provider to examine performance problems
  • Using the io provider to examine performance problems
  • Using DTrace to obtain information about system calls
  • D scripts that use arguments

VII.      INTERNET PROTOCOL FEATURE CHANGES



  • Understanding the IP Quality of Service feature
  • The FireEngine project's changes to the Solaris OS Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol stack
  • TCP multi-data transmission
  • Other miscellaneous changes to IP

VIII.      CHANGES TO NFS



  • NFS enhancements for Solaris 9 through Solaris 10 OS
  • Network File System version 4 (NFS version 4)
  • NFS hardware and software requirements, dependencies, and limitations

  IX.      SECURITY CHANGES



  • Introducing the Solaris OS Cryptographic Framework (SCF)
  • The Hardware Accelerator for Internet Key Exchange (IKE)
  • The Solaris IP Filter firewall

     X.      OTHER NETWORKING CHANGES



  • Introducing and configuring the System Management Agent (SMA)
  • Changes to Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)commands
  • Changes to routing sockets

  XI.      CHANGES TO THE SOLARIS 10 OS INSTALLATION



  • Changes to the Solaris installation media
  • Configuring multiple network interfaces during installation
  • Using a Virtual Table of Contents (VTOC) to modify disk partition tables
  • Support for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) version 2 profiles
  • Changes to the Solaris JumpStart software
  • Changes to Flash archives
  • Changes to the Solaris Live Upgrade boot environment
  • The WAN Boot utility
  • Package and patch web installation
  • Introducing the installation license panel

 


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