Network Interface Configuration Primer

• Configuring a machine's IPv4 interfaces manually for network connection, with many ifconfig examples.
• Discovering network interfaces with dladm.
• Understanding Internet Address classes and CIDR, and formulating Internet addresses.
• Configuring logical interfaces.
• IPMP (Multipathing) configuration and operation (Failover and load spreading)
• Network basic commands and the associated security files. Using Secure Shell (ssh).
• Network daemons. inetd.and SMF (Service Management facility). The inetadm and inetconv commands. TCP wrappers.
• Network Monitoring utilities (snoop, netstat, traceroute, nmap, ethereal, etc)

Network File System (NFS) and AutoFS

• Overview. Benefits and uses of NFS. Sharing file systems and managing an NFS server.
• The /etc/dfs/dfstab and /etc/dfs/sharetab files.
• NFS clients. The mount command.
• NFS security. NFS logging. NFS strategies.
• The NFS automounter (AutoFS). Starting and stopping autofs.
• Automount maps - indirect, hosts, and direct.
• Failover entries in maps. Using variables and wildcards in maps.
• Modifying automount options in /etc/default/autofs. Using SMC with NFS.
• NFSv4 features.

SAMBA Server Overview

• A brief overview of this powerful and impressive free open-source server now included with Solaris 10, which effectively turns a Solaris machine (or other UNIX/Linux machine) into a Windows file server.
• A working SAMBA installation will be created, with graphical configuration using swat via a web browser.

Overview of Solaris name services

• NIS. NIS+, LDAP and DNS - how they work, advantages and disadvantages of each.
• The Name Service Switch and /etc/nsswitch.conf.
• The Name Service Cache Daemon (nscd).
• DNS clients
• Configuring clients to use DNS name service.
• LDAP Name Services

Introduction to LDAP.

• Data examples. DIT and data structure. Schemas.
• Servers and clients. Planning and Preparation.
• Sun Java Directory Server. Directory Server Components. Directory Server Download. Distribution unpacking.
• Running idsktune.
• Directory Server basic setup, testing, getting status information, adding test data.
• Using idsconfig to populate the server with standard name-service data.
• Create a server instance. Backing up a server instance.
• Directory Server Proxy.
• Adding a client machine.
• - Running ldapclient.
• - Listing LDAP data from the client.
• - LDAP client files.
• LDAP utilities - ldapaddent, ldaplist, ldapadd, ldapmodify.
• Directory Service Control Center.
• Enabling Services under the SMF. SMF XML Manifest file ds6.xml.
• Server Backup and Restore

Solaris Management Console

• Installation. Configuration of extra toolboxes for use with multiple servers
• Using the toolbox editor.

Swap Management and Configuration

• Virtual memory. Examining a machine's current swap allocation.
• Creating new swap slices and files.
• Adding swap details to /etc/vfstab

Crash dumps and core files

• What are they? How to manage and restrict.
• The coreadm and dumpadm commands.

Solaris Volume Manager (SVM) and RAID

• Describe RAID levels. Describe the features of SVM.
• Implement SVM on a Solaris system. The metadevice state databases.
• Creating concatenated and striped metadevices.
• Creating and adding mirrors. removing mirrors. taking mirrors off-line.
• Hot Spares.
• Expanding file systems with growfs.
• Using the GUI to perform SVM tasks and monitor SVM status.

Role-based Access Control (RBAC)

• RBAC facilities. Applying rights and roles to users.
• Using the GUI smc to manage RBAC.
• Using the command line to manage RBAC.
• RBAC files and directories.

Solaris Zones

• Features of Solaris zones. The uses for zone partitioning.
• Configure, install and boot zones.
• Pre-configuring zone installation information.
• Adding additional directories and resources to an existing zone.
• Controlling zone resource limitations.
• Moving, renaming, cloning and migrating zones.
• Running Linux, Solaris8 and Solaris 9 zones. (Branded zones).
• Package and patch issues with zones.
• Zone FAQ.

System Messaging and Log Management.

• System logging (syslogd) operation.
• The syslog.conf configuration file directives.
• Using the logger command to add messages to logs
• Using the smc log viewer.
• Log file management with crontab.

Automatic Solaris Installation (Jumpstart)

• Jump Start Overview.
• Build servers. Copying Solaris to disk.
• Creating rules and profiles for automatic building of SPARC and Intel Solaris installs.
• Using DHCP to support Jumpstart clients.
• Booting and building from the network interactively and automatically.
• Using Jumpstart to build a ZFS-based root system.

Flash Installs

• Overview. Creating a Flash archive.
• Modify the JumpStart files to use a flash archive for installation.
• Modifying flash installs. Performing a flash install.
• ZFS and flash installs.

Introduction to the Apache web server

• Apache Web Server installation and activation.
• Installing a custom web site. Enabling the Jakarta Tomcat java facility.
• Examples of common Apache configuration directives.

Live Upgrade

• Live Upgrade overview and benefits.. Live Upgrade commands.
• What can be upgraded? Hardware and software requirements, including patch levels.
• Using lucreate to create an alternate boot environment (BE) from a running system.
• Upgrading the boot environment:-
• - from Solaris 8 or 9 to Solaris 10.
• - to a later release of Solaris 10.
• Maintaining boot environments with patches and software packages.
• Activation of a boot environment. Reverting to a previous boot environment.
• Using Live Upgrade to migrate to a ZFS root pool.
• Creating and using differential flash archives in a Live Upgrade environment.
• Jumpstart and Live Upgrade.

Network Information Service (NIS) - These notes are included for reference purposes only.

• Introduction. Creating a fully-functioning NIS service.
• Using the ypinit command to create Master and Slave servers.
• Updating the NIS information from the command line.
• Using SMC with NIS to manage users, groups and hosts.
• Adding NIS clients. NIS file policies.
• Creating and using netgroups with /etc/netgroup.
• Adding your own data to NIS. Modifying the NIS Makefile. Disabling NIS.