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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

You're reading from Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Product type Book

Published in Oct 2014

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ISBN-13 9781849688260

Pages 478 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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System Administration

Author (1):

Alexandre Borges

Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

Acknowledgments

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. IPS and Boot Environments

2. ZFS

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

Setting and getting other ZFS properties

Managing ZFS properties is one of the secrets when we are working with the ZFS filesystem, and this is the reason why understanding the inherence concept is very important.

One ZFS property can usually have three origins as source: local (the property value was set locally), default (the property wasn't set either locally or by inheritance), and inherited (the property was inherited from an ancestor). Additionally, two other values are possible: temporary (the value isn't persistent) and none (the property is read-only, and its value was generated by ZFS). Based on these key concepts, the sections are going to present different and interesting properties for daily administration.

Getting ready

This recipe can be followed using two virtual machines (VirtualBox or VMware) with Oracle Solaris 11 installed, 4 GB RAM, and eight disks of at least 4 GB.

How to do it…

Working as a small review, datasets such as pools, filesystems, snapshots, and clones have several...

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Authors (1)

Alexandre 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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