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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

By : Borges

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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

4.7 (7)

By: Borges

Overview of this book

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.

Preface

Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

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1. IPS and Boot Environments

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 the package corruption

Managing the 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 repository

Configuring 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 one

References

2. ZFS

2. ZFS

Introduction

Creating ZFS storage pools and filesystems

Playing with ZFS faults and properties

Creating 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 the ZFS swap

References

3. Networking

3. Networking

Introduction

Playing with Reactive Network Configuration

Internet Protocol Multipathing

Setting the link aggregation

Configuring network bridging

Configuring link protection and the DNS Client service

Configuring the DHCP server

Configuring Integrated Load Balancer

References

4. Zones

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

5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services

5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services

Introduction

Reviewing SMF operations

Handling manifests and profiles

Creating SMF services

Administering inetd-controlled network services

Troubleshooting Oracle Solaris 11 services

References

6. Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server

6. Configuring and Using an Automated Installer (AI) Server

Introduction

Configuring an AI server and installing a system from it

References

7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges

7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges

Introduction

Configuring and using RBAC

Playing with least privileges

References

8. Administering and Monitoring Processes

8. Administering and Monitoring Processes

Introduction

Monitoring and handling process execution

Managing processes' priority on Solaris 11

Configuring FSS and applying it to projects

References

9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance

9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance

Introduction

Configuring the syslog

Monitoring the performance on Oracle Solaris 11

References

Index

Index

Introduction

As you already know, Oracle Solaris 11 has undergone many changes and now provides a framework to manage packages named Image Packaging System (IPS). This new framework makes an administrator's life easier when he or she needs to add, remove, collect, and administer any software packages. By default, Oracle offers a repository (a large group of packages) on the Web at http://pkg.oracle.com/solaris/release/, and this is the default Oracle Solaris 11 repository. Using this repository, we will be able to install any package from the Internet, and as we are going to learn soon, it's feasible to create a local repository (like the default one) on our own Oracle Solaris 11 installation to improve the security and performance of our environment. Moreover, we can configure Oracle Solaris 11 to hold more than one repository as the source of the packages.

Going beyond IPS, Oracle Solaris 11 uses boot environments (BEs) to assist us in making an Oracle Solaris 11 upgrade without any risk to current data, because the update process creates a new BE before proceeding to the package update process. This new BE will be shown in the next reboot on the GRUB menu, and from there, we will be able to choose either the new BE (updated Solaris) or the old one. BEs will come in handy in other areas when handling the Oracle Solaris 11 administration.

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