New Features of Solaris 10 (for Experienced Solaris Administrators) |
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| 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. |
| 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
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| 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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