Oracle Solaris 11.4 Fundamentals

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Oracle Solaris is the trusted business platform that you depend on. Oracle Solaris 11 gives you consistent compatibility, is simple to use, and is designed to always be secure. 

Oracle Solaris was engineered to ensure that the features meet the latest market trends while maintaining backward compatibility,

The Integrated lifecycle management technologies allows the administrators use single command to update the entire cloud installation clear down to the firmware and including all virtualized environments.

Oracle Solaris also engineered for cloud security at every level. Antimalware protection extends from hypervisor to application.

Overivew

Solaris Fundamentals This course provides training on how to use Unix commands and basic Solaris commands and introduces trainee to Common Desktop Environment (CDE).

Prerequisites

Knowledge

Students to this class are expected to have:

  • Good understanding Operating Systems Basics
  • Basic knowledge of
    • Unix Operating System commands
    • Bash/C Shell scripting
    • File Management
    • Networking and Security
  • Basic understanding of computer operations skills :such as managing files

Technology

Depending on the delivery method of this course, the students should have :

  • A Workstation with Internet browser capability such as (Chrome, Edge, or Safari)
  • Good persistent internet connection without blocking firewalls(ideally non corporate firewall protected workstations)

The Labs

Labs are provided throughout the course and optionally can be extended for a 1 month period, students can practice the labs for unlimited times.

Labs covered in this course:

  • Lab 1: Exploring Oracle Solaris 11.4
  • Lab 2: User Accounts and Administration
  • Lab 3:  Network Security and Troubleshooting
  • Lab 4: Managing Oracle Solaris Storage
  • Lab 5: Oracle Solaris Virtualization
  • Lab 6: Oracle Solaris Monitoring
  • Lab 7: Operating System Security

Objectives

By the end of the course, students should be able to

  • Describe the features of Oracle Solaris 11
  • Understand the Oracle Solaris File system
  • Perform basic file editing
  • Use the GNome User interface
  • Manage GNome Desktop
  • Perform basic bash commands
  • Describe the different shells, C-Shell, Bash, KSH
  • Basics of Oracle Solaris Virtualization

Audience

This course is designed to assist and equip the students with the skills and knowledge that allows them to perfect their daily tasks with respect to operationalize and administer the CI/CD pipelines with confidence and capitalize the organization investment on business operation reliability.

  • System Administrator: Help architect and implement IT infrastructure exploiting full potential of Oracle Solaris OS 
  • Solution Architect: to better understand how to leverage  Cloud and on-premise IT capabilities.
  • SRE – Site Reliability Engineers: Help develop adequate Service Level Objectives (SLO), Service Level Indicators(SLI), and Observability across the overall system
  • Networking Engineers: Understands the networking limitations and requirements and the business impact of network architecture on business
  • Security Engineers: Help identify threats and implement security best practices on Oracle Solaris OS
  • DevOps Engineers: Help understand the application design components with reference to Oracle Solaris OS as hosting server or development workstation by exploring all full potentials of Oracle Solaris OS.
  • Other Users: Understand in depth how to operation a reliable Operating systems for their day today office work
  • Migration Engineers: Help plan the modernization of legacy platform and take full potential of Oracle Solaris platform.
  • Systems Architects: Develop reliable architecture with Oracle Solaris OS.

Timeline

The Oracle Solaris Course is a 5 days course, includes lectures, demos, and workshops.

The following is guidelines for the instructor to organize the time pace with the students, subject to change based on students preference.

Breaks during the day follows the 106 rule, every 45-60m 

*the 106 rule, indicates the human memory capacity to learn the new factual elements which is 106 facts before the memory could be reused.

Course Curriculum

  • Introduction to Oracle Solaris 11.4 
  • Understand Oracle Solaris Architecture
  • Oracle Solaris 11.4 Offerings
  • New features of Oracle Solaris 11.4
  • Overview of Package Repository
RPO Defined

Solaris OS Components

  • Core and Kernel
  • File System and Storage
  • Service Management and Security
  • Networking and Diagnostics
  • User Environment
  • Hardware compatibility
  • Solaris Clusters
  • Solaris Developer Studio

Installing Oracle Solaris 11.4

  • Manually Installing an Oracle Solaris 11.4 System
  • Automatically Installing Oracle Solaris 11.4 Systems
  • Customizing Automated Installations With Manifests and Profiles
  • Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris 11.4 Systems

Solaris File System

  • Managing Devices in Oracle Solaris 11.4
  • Managing File Systems in Oracle Solaris 11.4
  • Managing ZFS File Systems in Oracle Solaris 11.4
  • Managing SAN Devices and I/O Multipathing in Oracle Solaris 11.4
  • Oracle Solaris I/O Multipathing and Storage Device Administration Cheatshe

Managing and Editing Files

  • Display file contents
  • Set permissions on files
  • Manage files in /etc folder
  • Superuser access to protected files

Files and Directory Permissions

  • Files and Directory permissions in Solaris OS
  • User Owner and Other permissions
  • User masks
  • sudo command

File names and Search Capabilities

  • environment variables
  • PATH environment variable
  • search for files by name
  • search for files by other attributes
  • pass search results into a pipe
  • set file search attributes

Overview of Solaris Security

  • Operating System Security Fundamentals
  • Permission Security Levels
  • User Groups
  • Superuser
  • Authentication and Authorization
  • Networking Security
  • Storage Security
  • Process Security

Shell Commands

  • Introduction to Oracle Solaris 11.4 shells
  • Shell Commands
  • types of Oracle Solaris Shells
    • C-Shell
    • ksh
    • bash

Aliases and Shell variables

  • Automating daily operation commands
  • cron jobs
  • Basic programming controls
  • if statement
  • case statement
  • loops
  • Aliases
  • send emails
  • Developer’s Guide

Basic Networking

  • Network topology
  • Network Layers
  • TCP/IP Addressing
  • Network basic troubleshooting
  • Securing Networks with firewall

Manage SSH to login to Solaris

  • Overview of opnessh Secure Shell SSH
  • Anatomy of .ssh folder
  • ssh configuration files
  • Generating ssh Keys
  • Installing ssh keys
  • Enabling firewalls
  • General Security practices for remote login
  • login remotely using ssh
  • Copy and move files with scp

Solaris OS Booting

  • Boot record
  • Multi-boot Solaris OS
  • Change boot options

Basic File Editor commands

  • Text Editor Commands
  • Introduction to vim editor
  • Display text files
  • Follow log files
  • Stream files using pipe

GNome Solaris GUI Desktop

  • Starting GNome as the default OS
  • GNome Desktop
  • GNome utilties
  • Exploring Network Neighbourhood
  • GNome Settings 
  • GNome Background
  • GNome lock screen 
  • Change Settings in GNome
  • Remote Connection with VNC

GNome Solaris GUI Desktop

  • Organizing Files and Folders 
  • Printing Files using CUP
  • Sending emails with sendmail
  • Word processors
  • Online Internet Browsing with Firefox
  • Oracle Solaris Developer Studio
  • Personalize Settings

GNome Solaris GUI Desktop

  • Server Architectures
  • High Availability with Solaris OS
  • Server Networking
  • Virtualization with Zones
  • Oracle Solaris Cluster

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