Managing the Image Packaging System (IPS) repositories and publishers

• Configure local IPS release and support (Oracle Solaris updates) repositories.
• Access and install Oracle key and certificate files to authorise support repository downloads.
• Configure client access to the local IPS server repositories.
• Signed packages and other package properties.
• Administering IPS package publishers.
• Managing multiple Boot Environments (BE), with facilities in the pkg and beadm commands.

Automating Solaris 11 installation of multiple systems

• Automated Installation of Solaris 11 using the Automated Installer (AI) on SPARC and Intel systems.
• Creating AI manifests and packages, plus client configuration profiles.
• Building a custom Solaris image using the distribution constructor.

Configuring ZFS for Business Application Data

• Configuring data redundancy with mirrored and RAIDz Storage Pools.
• Backup and restore with ZFS snapshots, send and receive, including full OS backup and restore.
• Advanced ZFS dataset properties.
• ZFS failure and recovery scenarios.
• Sharing data with NFS (Network File System), including server and client configuration.
• Configuring basic CIFS (Common Internet File System, a.k.a. SMB) shares.
• Introduction to the CIFS client-side in Solaris 11.

Configuring Networks and Implementing Network Failover

• Local network configuration; static and dynamic network profiles.
• Using NetWork Auto-Magic (NWAM) for automatic network configuration.
• Using link aggregations for failover and extra bandwidth.
• Implementing network link failover using IPMP (Internet Protocol Multi-Pathing).
• Creating, configuring and monitoring an IPMP Group.
• Testing failover.

Configuring Virtual Networks, including Zones.

• Creating and configuring a virtual network interfaces (VNICs).
• Configuring VNICs in zones.
• Resources configuration in a zone.
• Managing VNIC resources.

Managing Systems Services and Service Properties in the SMF (Service Management facility)

• Creating and configuring SMF services.
• SMF properties and how to use them.
• Troubleshooting and recovering failed SMF services.

Configuring Privileges and Role-Based Access Control, and the sudo command

• Configuring and Using RBAC (Role Based Access Control).
• Assign rights profiles and Authorisations to users.
• Configure new rights profiles.
• Create Administrative Roles, and assign rights.
• Understand and configure privileges; identify privilege aware commands.
• Assign privileges to users and roles.
• Configure and use the sudo command.

Using Solaris Auditing to monitor and record user actions.

• Implementing, configuring and enabling auditing.
• Using and understanding audit data generated by the audit system.

Managing Processes and Scheduling Priorities

• Overview of process scheduling features.
• Configuring process scheduling priority.
• Enabling the Fair Share Scheduler (FSS).
• Configure the scheduling class of a zone.

Basic System Resource controls

• System Resource principles.
• Monitoring System Performance.
• Examples of system resource control commands.
• Project creation and project parameters.
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting Process and System Failures

Configuring system messaging (syslog).

• Managing log rotation tasks.
• Controlling process and system crash dumps, i.e. core files and kernel panic dumps.