Oracle Solaris 11 advanced administration cookbook : over 50 advanced recipes to help you configure and administer Oracle Solaris systems / 0Alexandre Borges ; cover image by Reshma Lodaya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borges, Alexandre, author.

Contributor:

Lodaya, Reshma, cover designer.

Series:

Quick Answers to Common Problems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oracle (Computer file).

Solaris (Computer file).

Database management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (478 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Oracle Solaris eleven advanced administration cookbook

Over 50 advanced recipes to help you configure and administer Oracle Solaris systems

Place of Publication:

Birmingham, England : Packt Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Biography/History:

Borges Alexandre: Alexandre Borges is an Oracle ACE in Solaris and has been teaching courses on Oracle Solaris since 2001. He worked as an employee and a contracted instructor at Sun Microsystems, Inc. until 2010, teaching hundreds of courses on Oracle Solaris (such as Administration, Networking, DTrace, and ZFS), Oracle Solaris Performance Analysis, Oracle Solaris Security, Oracle Cluster Server, Oracle/Sun hardware, Java Enterprise System, MySQL Administration, MySQL Developer, MySQL Cluster, and MySQL tuning. He was awarded the title of Instructor of the Year twice for his performance teaching Sun Microsystems courses. Since 2009, he has been imparting training at Symantec Corporation (NetBackup, Symantec Cluster Server, Storage Foundation, and Backup Exec) and EC-Council [Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH)]. In addition, he has been working as a freelance instructor for Oracle education partners since 2010. In 2014, he became an instructor for Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and Brocade. Currently, he also teaches courses on Reverse Engineering, Windows Debugging, Memory Forensic Analysis, Assembly, Digital Forensic Analysis, and Malware Analysis. Alexandre is also an (ISC)2 CISSP instructor and has been writing articles on the Oracle Technical Network (OTN) on a regular basis since 2013.

Summary:

If you are a Solaris administrator who wants to learn more about administering an Oracle Solaris system and want to go a level higher in utilizing the advanced features of Oracle Solaris, then this book is for you. A working knowledge of Solaris Administration is assumed.

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Credits; About the Author; Acknowledgments; About the Reviewers; www.PacktPub.com; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: IPS and Boot Environments; Introduction; Determining the current package publisher; Listing and collecting the information and dependencies of a package; Installing a package, verifying its content, and fixing package corruption; Managing IPS history and freezing and uninstalling packages; Discovering the IPS Package Manager interface; Creating, activating, and destroying a boot environment; Listing and renaming a boot environment

Configuring an IPS local repositoryConfiguring a secondary IPS local repository; Publishing packages into a repository; Adding big applications into a repository; Creating your own package and publishing it; Managing an IPS publisher on Solaris 11; Pinning publishers; Changing the URI and enabling and disabling a publisher; Creating a mirror repository; Removing a repository and changing the search order; Listing and creating a boot environment; Mounting, unmounting, installing, and uninstalling a package in an inactive ; boot environment; Activating a boot environment

Creating a boot environment from an existing oneReferences; Chapter 2: ZFS; Introduction; Creating ZFS storage pools and filesystems; Playing with ZFS faults and properties; Making a ZFS snapshot and clone; Performing a backup in a ZFS filesystem; Handling logs and caches; Managing devices in storage pools; Configuring spare disks; Handling ZFS snapshots and clones; Playing with COMSTAR; Mirroring the root pool; ZFS shadowing; Configuring ZFS sharing with the SMB share; Setting and getting other ZFS properties; Playing with ZFS swap; References; Chapter 3: Networking; Introduction

Playing with Reactive Network ConfigurationInternet Protocol Multipathing; Setting the link aggregation; Configuring network bridging; Configuring link protection and the DNS Client service; Configuring the DHCP server; Configuring Integrated Load Balance; References; Chapter 4: Zones; Introduction; Creating, administering, and using a virtual network in a zone; Managing a zone using the resource manager; Implementing a flow control; Working with migrations from physical Oracle Solaris 10 hosts to Oracle Solaris 11 Zones; References; Chapter 5: Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services

IntroductionReviewing SMF operations; Handling manifests and profiles; Creating SMF services; Administering inetd-controlled network services; Troubleshooting Oracle Solaris 11 services; References; Chapter 6: Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server; Introduction; Configuring an AI server and installing a system from it; References; Chapter 7: Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges; Introduction; Configuring and using RBAC; Playing with least privileges; References; Chapter 8: Administering and Monitoring Processes; Introduction

Monitoring and handling process execution

Notes:

"Quick answers to common problems"--Cover.

Includes index.

"Professional Expertise Distilled."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 22, 2014).

ISBN:

9781849688277

1849688273

OCLC:

895913613