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  Solaris 10 Courses

NKT Training offer a number of courses specific to the Solaris 10 Operating System, Solaris System Administration Part 1 and Part 2 for delegates who have no UNIX Administration knowledge, and Solaris for Unix Administrators course for delegates with experience of administering other version of Unix or Linux.

The recent introduction of Solaris 10, Sun have yet again raised the bar by offering key technologies like zones/containers, dynamic tracing facility, ability for systems to offline failing hardware components, improved networking performance and new service management facility.

Solaris has not undergone such a major change between revisions since the transition between Solaris 1 and Solaris 2 in the early 90s. Therefore NKT Training have re-developed the Solaris System Administration Part 1 and Part 2 courses to include the new and powerful features of Solaris 10.

Two new Solaris courses have also been created;

  Solaris 10 Update. A three day course available for current users of Solaris who are planning to migrate to Solaris 10 in the future.

  Solaris 10 Dynamic Tracing. A two day course available to administrators and system tuners who have a requirement to monitor the performance of their systems and applications with easy-to-write D programs.

Curriculum map for new delegates

  UNIX Fundamentals

  Shell Programming (optional)

  Solaris System Administration Part I

  Solaris System Administration Part II

  Solaris Network Administration

  Solaris 10 Dynamic Tracing

Curriculum map for delegates with Unix/Linux experience

  Solaris for Experienced Unix Administrators

  Solaris Network Administration

  Solaris 10 Dynamic Tracing

Curriculum map for existing Solaris administrators moving to Solaris 10

  Solaris 10 Update

  Solaris 10 Dynamic Tracing

  After attending each course, the delegate should be in a position to sit the appropriate Sun Microsystems' Sun Certified Solaris Administrator or Sun Certified Network Administrator exams. These exams are taken at your local Prometric testing centre and are approx. 1.5 hours duration.

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  Solaris Dynamic Tracing Facility

  Solaris 10 Update

Coming in 2006

Course Duration

2 days

Course Overview

Solaris Dynamic Tracing, DTrace, is a new feature to Solaris 10. It is intended for use by System Administrators, System Tuning personnel, kernel developers and application programmers.

DTrace makes use of numerous built-in probes which are used to record arbitrary data from the system, trace processes on live systems, monitor kernel and application processes, all with minimal performance loss.

Who should attend

System Administrators, kernel developers system tuners and application programmers who require to monitor processes in detail on live systems.

Course Topics

  Introducing DTrace

Features, architecture, probes and D Scripts

  Using Dtrace

DTrace performance monitoring, aggregations, D variables, arrays, built-in macros

  Debugging applications

The pid provider, application variables, transient errors, file access.

  Debugging system problems

Accessing Kernel Symbols, Kernel variables and data structures, lock contention info, monitoring read calls, anonymous tracing, speculative tracing, DTrace privileges.

  Troubleshooting DTrace

Minimising performance impact, DTrace buffers, debugging DTrace scripts.

Coming in 2006

Course Duration

4 days

Course Overview

Solaris has not undergone such a major change since the introduction of Solaris 2 in the early 90's when Sun converted their operating system from BSD to System V Unix. The Solaris 10 Update course therefore is essential for existing Solaris administrators who need to update their skills to manage the new Solaris 10 Operating System. The course starts with an overview of the updated existing features and then concentrates on the details of the numerous new features.

Who should attend

The course contains essential knowledge for current Solaris administrators who will be required to manage the new Solaris 10 Operating System

Course Topics

  Solaris 10 existing features update.

Installation, file systems. authentication, IPQoS, FireEngine project, TCP multidata enhancement, NFS, security.

  Zones

Concepts, Configuration, installing, booting, halting, accessing, managing resources

  Fault & Service Management Facility

Architecture, naming schemes, commands, troubleshooting, SMF architecture, managing SMF Services, troubleshooting SMF

  DTrace overview

Features, architecture, probes and D Scripts

  IP Filter Firewall

Creating disc slices; labeling discs

  WAN Boot

WAN boot process, configuration, security, troubleshooting.

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