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Old 10-18-2008
Setting up a Solaris training

Hi,
i'm about to hold a training (Solaris 10) for my colleagues. I've to plan for two days. There is a day for basics and a day (some weeks later) for advanced topics. All of them are regular solaris users (but mostly only installing + patching).

What do you guys think are interesting topics that i should cover?

I thought about:

Basic:
- Whats new since Solaris 9
..-> SMF
..-> Predictive self healing
..-> Fault Management
- MPXIO
- IPMP
- Trunking

Advanced:
- ZFS
- DTrace
- Zones/Container
- LDoms
- JET (Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit)

Love to hear some nice ideas...

Tia,
DN2

Last edited by DukeNuke2; 11-19-2008 at 09:58 AM..
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Old 10-18-2008
We are trying to get people to upgrade away from Solaris 8. With the kind of "push back" we're getting, you'd think we had asked them to eat a bucket of worms. The new system start up is the big thing. You can ignore zfs and dtrace, but you can't ignore the changes to system start up. Even a simple thing like disabling (or re-enabling) sendmail freaks out most folks approaching 10 for the first time. You won't be comfortable with the os until you're comfortable with this. This is the main reason that a lot of people where I work have rejected Solaris 10.

Reason number 2 is no support for static linking, but this only requires a quick sentence or two in your class.
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Old 10-18-2008
The class is not this "high-level" users... We are all "field engineers" and mostly do solaris installations on sun hardware.
SMF is definitly a point to teach... it run's under "whats new since solaris 9".

thanks for your input!
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Old 10-18-2008
How about Zones/Containers/Logical Domains?
# 5  
Old 10-18-2008
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Originally Posted by fpmurphy
How about Zones/Containers/Logical Domains?
done Smilie
# 6  
Old 10-19-2008
duke - what exactly do the CE's do on a daily basis?
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Old 10-19-2008
Do you want to look at any security stuff? The hardening work etc prior to deployment, time-of-attack work (pretty jolly rare to be on the spot at the time of course), and (more useful) after incident analysis?

I'm thinking things like following a set of connections through servers by matching the source and destination port numbers.

In that same vein, you could look at the same process from a troubleshooting perspective... I've done similar before for a our DBAs to teach them how to find which unix script (sometimes on a different server) was behind a jammed oracle job, and how to tell which server (production or DR) is connecting to their DBs.
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