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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

You're reading from Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook Over 50 advanced recipes to help you configure and administer Oracle Solaris systems

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781849688260

Length 478 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Oracle Solaris

Concepts

System Administration

Author (1):

Alexandre Borges

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Table of Contents (11) Chapters

Preface

1. IPS and Boot Environments

2. ZFS FREE CHAPTER

3. Networking

4. Zones

5. Playing with Oracle Solaris 11 Services

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

7. Configuring and Administering RBAC and Least Privileges

8. Administering and Monitoring Processes

9. Configuring the Syslog and Monitoring Performance

Index

Introduction

Installing Oracle Solaris 11 from a DVD is a simple and straight forward task, and usually, only a few screens and inputs are required to accomplish the operation. However, when there are many hosts to be installed, this approach might not be enough anymore. In previous versions of Oracle Solaris, there was a nice feature named JumpStart that made this installation process on multiple machines very easy. As we already know, time passed and Oracle introduced a new method that installs any machine (SPARC or x86 platforms) named Automated Installer (AI).

Concisely, the AI configuration requirement is composed of the following:

Configuring the AI server that provides the install services; this is the system where all configurations are performed
Configuring a DHCP server that offers IP addresses and other network settings
Configuring an IPS repository that has all necessary packages that are required to install the Oracle Solaris 11 host
Having a client where Oracle Solaris 11 will...

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Authors (1)

Borges

Borges

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.

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