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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

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Listing and creating a boot environment

We've learned that boot environments have a wide spectrum of application on Oracle Solaris 11, like patching a system, for example. This section lets us analyze the administration and management of a BE a bit more.

Without any question, listing and creating BEs is one of the more basic tasks when administering a boot environment. However, every BE administration starts from this point.

Getting ready

To follow this recipe, it's necessary that we have a machine (physical or virtual) running Oracle Solaris 11; we log in to the system as the root user and open a terminal. Access to the Internet is optional. Some extra space on the disk is important.

How to do it…

The most basic command when administering a BE is to list the existing boot environments:

root@solaris11:~# beadm list
BE               Active Mountpoint Space  Policy Created          
--               ------ ---------- -----  ------ -------          
solaris          NR     /          25.86G static 2013-10-05 20:44 
solaris-backup-1 -      -          303.0K static 2013-10-26 22:49 
solaris-backup-a -      -          7.26G  static 2013-10-10 19:57

The next natural step is to create a new boot environment:

root@solaris11:~# beadm create solaris_test_1
root@solaris11:~# beadm list
BE               Active Mountpoint Space  Policy Created          
--               ------ ---------- -----  ------ -------          
solaris          NR     /          25.88G static 2013-10-05 20:44 
solaris-backup-1 -      -          303.0K static 2013-10-26 22:49 
solaris-backup-a -      -          7.26G  static 2013-10-10 19:57 
solaris_test_1   -      -          204.0K static 2013-11-05 22:38

An overview of the recipe

In this recipe, we had a quick review of how to create boot environments. This recipe will be used a number of times in future procedures.

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