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

Overview

The Make the Transition to the Solaris 10 Operating System course presents the essential differences between the Solaris 8, Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 Operating Systems.

Objectives

The Make the Transition to the Solaris 10 Operating System course presents the essential differences between the Solaris 8, Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 Operating Systems. The course covers skills and tasks that are new or are changed in Solaris 10. The course also covers tasks in Solaris 10 that replace previous Solaris tasks. This course is intended to provide experienced Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 systems administrators with practical experience administering Solaris 10 through hands-on practice and focuses on many of the objectives necessary to prepare them to take the Sun Certified System Administrator for the Solaris 10 Operating System Upgrade Exam (CX-310-203).

PreRequisites

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

Who Can Benefit

  • Experienced Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 Systems Administrators who need to understand the essential differences in Solaris 10
  • This course counts towards the Hands-on course requirement for the Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator Certification. Only instructor-led inclass or instructor-led online formats of this course will meet the Certification Hands-on Requirement. Self Study CD-Rom and Knowledge Center courses DO NOT meet the Hands-on Requi

Duration

3 days

Course Content

Make the Transition to the Solaris 10 Operating System (SA-210-S10) Content Details

 
 
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



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