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Overview

The Solaris Systems Administration: Advanced Topics course introduces participants to: new file system structure types (ZFS), new methods of accessing kernel information (kstats), dynamic system tracing for system analysis (DTrace), virtualization capabilities (zones), an introduction to the usage of access control lists (ACL) and the implementation of privileges in Solaris 10. In many areas of discussion, emphasis will be placed on writing tools for monitoring and/or access. These tools will include Korn shell scripts, Perl procedures, and C language programs.

Course Objectives:

On completion of this course, a systems administrator should be able to:

•create and manipulate ZPOOLs and ZFS file systems
•create and control virtualization features (zones)
•understand Solaris performance data extensions (kstat, dtrace)
•use both file and directory ACLs
•distinguish between privilege and non-privilege aware programs
•control privileges at the executable and user process levels

Prerequisites

It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the Solaris 10 Systems Administration course, or has equivalent system time as a user, and is comfortable with basic systems administration functions.

Schedule

3 days

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