UnixCBT Sol11x Edition

English | 2015 | mp4 | H264 1356x764 | AAC 2 ch | 41 hrs 12 min | 5.66 GB

eLearning

Course Objective

Installation | Features

- Discuss features of Solaris® 11

- Explore Topology

- Provision virtual resources

- Live Media Installation

- Evaluate Installation

- Text Installation

- Automated Installation

- Contrast Installation methods

- Identify installed resources

Post-Installation Tasks

- Sysconfig - Reconfigure system as needed

- Explore Boot Environment

- INIT - Follow Boot Cycle

Service Management Facility (SMF)

- Explore implementation of service management

- Contrast with SYSV method

- Identify key files and daemons

- Identify managed services

- Explore properties of services

- Manipulate services as needed

- Effect changes to running system

$SHELL Basics | Navigation | Key Commands

- Explore default $SHELL environment

- Expose key variables

- Review semantics: I/O | Redirection | etc.

- Identify and use important UNIX commands

- Apply command chaining

- Use logical ANDing and ORing to achieve desired results

User | Group Management

- Identify key files and commands

- Explore current configuration

- Discuss important user | group properties

- Provision additional users | groups

- Use GUI to manage user | group | role resources

- Explore GUI environment

Package Management

- Discuss current framework

- Compare current framework to open source methods

- Use GUI to explore and manipulate packages

- Explore and use CLI package management utilities

- Find | Add | Remove Packages

- Evalaute results

UNIX Permissions

- Discuss UNIX Discretionary Access Control (DAC) standard model

- Identify applicable permissions on system objects

- Manipulate permissions to suit current conditions

- Test permissions across users | groups

- Implement permissions as needed

CRON Scheduler

- Discuss applicability

- Explore system defaults

- Discuss supported schedules

- Schedule jobs as needed

- Ensure automated functionality

- Debug as needed

Network Stack Administration

- Explore network settings | statistics | sockets with: 'netstat'

- Discuss networking concepts applicable to Solaris

- Complete an overview of network stack implemenation

- Contrast stack implementation with prior versions

- IP Administration basics - configuration - static

- Dynamic IP Administration configuration

- Conjoin dynamic and static configurations as needed

- Provision additionaly IP subnet as needed

- Explore IPv6 support

- Committ new settings and evaluate

Storage Administration - UFS | SWAP | ZFS | TMPFS

- Review storage basics as implemented by Solaris

- Explore current configuration

- Provision UFS slices as needed

- Dynamically allocate SWAP as needed

- Confirm rolling SWAP allocation

- Introduction to ZFS Administration

- Discuss ZFS basics applicable to all installations

- Add | Extend ZFS storage pool as required

- Take ZFS snapshots as needed

- Confirm snapshots and footprint

- Clone ZFS resources as needed - Discuss use-cases

- Discuss ZFS streams

- Implement in-memory TMPFS

- Evaluate storage modifications

Network Time Protocol (NTP)

- Discuss importance of optimal time synchronization

- Identify default configuration

- Locate internal | external time resources

- Configure NTP to synch accordingly

- Debug common synch issues related to system suspension

- Manually synch time as needed to reduce skew

- Confirm reliability of NTP hierarchy

- Ensure all nodes use NTP persistently

Secure Communications

- Identify important SSH utilities and features

- Create secure remote terminals with SSH

- Move data non-interactively with SCP

- Use SFTP to secure data transmissions

- Configure PKI, passwordless authentication

- Confirm seamless PKI based authentication

Content Transfer Utilities

- Synchronize content securely using RSYNC

- Fetch content using WGET

- Use cURL to fetch content

- Contrast WGET and cURL

- Install and use gFTP to graphically interact with: FTP | SFTP servers

Archival | Compression Utilities

- Generate sample content for compression and archiving

- Use GZIP to compress content for storage | transport

- Compare source and compressed content footprints

- Transfer content using RSYNC and evaluate performance

- Use BZIP2 to compress content for dual purposes

- Contrast BZIP2 footprint with GZIP

- Archive content for convenience using TAR

- Evaluate and discuss findings

Terminal Multiplexer

- Identify use cases for screen multiplexer

- Explore default environment and possible caveats

- Use 'screen' to spawn multiplexed environment

- Navigate environment using escape sequences

- Attach | Detach | Kill | Re-spawn sessions as needed

- Share screen sessions from various nodes

- Allow process to persist across connections

- Evaluate benefits

SYSLOG - Configuration

- Explore defaults

- Explain facilities and levels

- Trap data as needed

- Centralize SYSLOG dumps to LOG_HOST

- Replicate SYSLOG dumps for redundancy

- Explore LOG Rotation defaults

Extraction | Parsing Tools

- Extract lines of interest with GREP

- Parse fields of interest with AWK

- Modify streams with SED

- Combine tools to parse and manipulate content as needed

DNS Clients | Server | Configuration

- Explore client resolution environment: key files and defaults

- Use various clients to resolve inquiries for local and public resources

- Implement DNS caching-only services

- Test forwarded resolution of requests via caching-only DNS instance

- Implement Primary DNS zone

- Confirm resolution of authoritative records from Primary DNS zone

- Replicate DNS zone to secondary servers

- Confirm replicated results to secondary servers

- Update records and confirm across nodes

- Provision reverse IPv[4|6] records

- Confirm reverse resolution of both protocols

FTP Services

- Introduction to FTP services

- Implement FTP server

- Explore configuration - defaults

- Test connectivity

- Manipulate various FTP server options and confirm results

NFS Services

- Discuss use-cases

- Implement NFS shares

- Mount NFS shares on clients and test accessibility

- Vary share options and confirm on clients

- Evaluate results

TFTPD Services

- Discuss the benefits of TFTPD

- Implement TFTPD server

- Move data using standard TFTP client

- Confirm appropriate permissions and highlight caveats

- Archive infrastructure configuration via TFTPD

- Confirm results

SMB Services

- Discuss features & benefits

- Contrast with Samba Server

- Identify SMB resources

- Implement SMB server

- Test accessibility via SMB | CIFS

Apache - Web Services - HTTPD

- Introduction to Apache HTTPD

- Identify default configuration

- Publish Apache manual

- Configure and expore $USER directories

- Discuss Apache LOGs and configurabiljity

- Implement IP-based Virtual Hosts (VHosts)

- Implement Name-based VHosts

- Contrast applicability and configurability of various VHosts

Zones

- Discuss virtualization options

- Highlight benefits of zones

- Discuss features and restrictions

- Implement zones

- Confirm connectivity to zones

Security

- Introduction to Roles Based Access Control (RBAC)

- Identify default roles and associated privileges

- Contrast RBAC with DAC

- Explain how RBAC augments DAC

- Install NMap security scanner

- Perform reconnaissance on all nodes

- Identify potential vulnerabilities

- Take steps to strengthen overall security posture of nodes