OS11-ASA: Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced System Administration 

Module 1: Introduction

• Course Goals
• Course Agenda
• Introductions
• Your Learning Center
• Your Lab Environment

Module 2: Managing Services and Service Properties Using SMF

• Describe the advanced features of SMF
• Configure SMF services
• Troubleshoot SMF services

Module 3: Managing Software Packages by Using IPS

• Describe Image Packaging System (IPS)
• Configure a local IPS package repository

Module 4: Managing Data Back Up and Restore by Using ZFS

• Plan for data storage configuration and backup
• Manage data redundancy with mirrored storage pools
• Back up and restore data with ZFS snapshots
• Manage data storage space with ZFS file system properties
• Troubleshoot ZFS failures

Module 5: Configure the Network

• Configuring virtual switches
• Configure link aggregation for high performance
• Configure IPMP for IP high availability
• Configure Packet Filter to control network access

Module 6: Administering Network Services

• Configure Network File System (NFS)
• Configure a Domain Name System (DNS) Client
• Configure a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Client

Module 7: Advanced Administration of Zones

• Explaining the fundamentals of Oracle Solaris 11 zones
• Manage system resources in a zone
• Migrating Oracle Solaris 10 systems
• Configure kernel Zones
• Administer unified archives

Module 8: Securing the Oracle Solaris 11 OS

• Implement user privileges and roles
• Manage privileges
• Manage user rights
• Verify file integrity by using BART
• Monitor the audit service
• Assess the compliance of an Oracle Solaris system

Module 9: Managing Processes and Priorities

• Implement process execution in an appropriate scheduling class
• Manage process scheduling priority
• Configure Fair Share Scheduler (FSS)
• Manage the scheduling class of zones

Module 10: Installing Oracle Solaris 11 on Multiple hosts

• Introduce the Automated Installer
• Configure the AI install server
• Configure the AI client
• Build an Oracle Solaris image

Module 11: Implementing System Messaging And Diagnostic Facilities

• Monitor system logs
• Identify a crash dump file
• Identify a core dump file
• Troubleshoot a script execution issue
• Troubleshoot a software update failure
• Troubleshoot a network connectivity issue
• Troubleshoot a directory access issue
• Troubleshoot a default shell issue

Module 12: Introduce Oracle Solaris 11 on the Cloud

• Explain Oracle Compute Cloud service
• Subscribe to Oracle Compute Cloud service
• Create an Oracle Solaris Instance on the cloud
• Create an SSH-enabled user on an Oracle Solaris instance
• Create a virtualized topology using Orchestration JSONs