Make the Transition to the Solaris 10 Operating System SA-210-S10

Prerequisites:

• Experience administering Solaris 8 or Solaris 9 systems
• Ability to manage file systems
• Knowledge of system boot procedures
• Experience managing storage volumes

Objectives:

• Administer the Service Management Facility
• Install the Solaris 10 OS
• Manage Solaris 10 OS patches and updates
• Perform user and security administration in the Solaris 10 OS
• Manage processes in the Solaris 10 OS
• Describe networking basic in the Solaris 10 OS
• Manage virtual file systems and core dumps in the Solaris 10 OS
• Manage storage volumes in the Solaris 10 OS
• Control system access in the Solaris 10 OS
• Set up naming services in the Solaris 10 OS
• Perform advanced installation procedures including jumpstart and flash installation in the Solaris 10 OS

Topics:

Managing Services Using With the Service Management Facility (SMF)

• Identify features of the Service Management Facility (SMF)

Introducing the Solaris OS Directory Hierarchy

• Identify changes to the Solaris OS Directory Hierarchy in the Solaris 10 OS

Managing Local Disk Devices

• Identify changes to the format command
• Implement EFI disk labels
• Identify changes to the behavior of the devfsadm command

Managing the Solaris OS File System

• Identify changes related to pseudo file systems
• Describe features of the Multiterabyte UFS
• Describe changes related to logging in UFS
• Describe the default behavior and output of the mount command with respect to logging in the UFS
• Describe the meaning of the devices flag of the mount command

Installing the Solaris OS

• Describe the installation methods available for the Solaris 10 OS
• State the installation requirements for the Solaris 10 OS
• Describe additional software groups introduced in the Solaris 10 OS

Introducing the Fundamentals of Package and Patch Administration

• Describe how signed packages and patches are implemented
• Implement patch management using the Sun Update Connection Services including the Sun Update Manager application, the smpatch command line, and the Sun Update Connection hosted Web application

Performing User Administration

• Describe differences in Administering Users

Performing System Security

• Describe differences in Securing the Solaris 10 OS

Configuring and Using Printer Services

• Identify network printing fundamental changes
• Configure and administer printer services

Describing Network Basics

• Describe Network Interface Configuration Changes
• Describe Changes to the Client-Service Model

Managing Crash Dumps, Core Files and Paging

• Describe the differences in the coreadm command from Solaris 9 to Solaris 10
• Describe MPSS

Configuring NFS

• Describe the differences in the Network File System in Solaris 8, 9, and 10
• Describe the enhancements to Network File System version 4 (NFS version 4)

Configuring AutoFS

• Describe new map entries with AutoFS

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

Controlling Access and Configuring System Messaging

• Describe the effect of the /etc/inet/ipnodes file on the loghost variable
• Describe generic log rotation

Using Naming Services

• Describe differences in the name service switch file
• Describe differences in the LDAP name service

Configuring the Custom JumpStart Procedure

• Describe differences in Boot Services
• Describe differences in Identification Services
• Describe differences in Configuration Services
• Describe differences in Installation Services

Performing a Flash Installation

• Describe the Flash installation feature
• Manipulate a Flash archive
• Use a Flash archive for installation

Using Live Upgrade

• Create an alternate boot environment cloned from a running system
• Create a differential flash archive in a Live Upgrade boot environment
• Create an empty alternative boot environment and understand when this is necessary
• Extend a base boot environment with a differential flash archive

Introducing WANboot

• Perform a WANboot Flash installation