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Sun Fire Workgroup/Enterprise Server Administration

 Course Description
    Course Outline/Details

The Sun Fire Workgroup/Enterprise Server Administration course provides students with the information needed to administer the Sun Fire 3800 , Sun Fire 4800 , Sun Fire 4810 , and Sun Fire 6800 workgroup-to-midrange servers. Additionally, students learn to diagnose and troubleshoot hardware and software issues.

eMentoring Services are included with this course.

  • Course length: 8-10 hours

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    • Course ID:
    WCS-200-180    		 Subscription Duration:
    180 days     		Price:
    $US  1800.00
    How to Enroll
       
     Languages Offered Back To Top

    This course is currently available in English only.

     
     Who Can Benefit Back To Top

    Students who can benefit from this course are enterprise system administrators, senior service providers, operations managers, information technology planners, and anyone responsible for supporting midrange-networked database servers.

     
     Prerequisites Back To Top

    To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

  • Provide administration support for the Solaris Operating System
  • Understand the fundamentals of data storage administration
  • Perform common platform tasks, such as powering on and powering off the system hardware, and booting the Solaris Operating System
  • Troubleshoot server and network system software and hardware

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     Skills Gained Back To Top

    Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
  • Describe the architecture, functional goals, models, and advanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features of Sun's midrange servers
  • Describe how to configure an administrative workstation and start a server
  • Identify system components by location and function
  • Describe how to access system configuration using the Solaris Operating System utilities
  • Set up, manage, and verify platform configuration parameters using the system controller
  • Perform platform management using line commands and invoke platform and domain shells
  • Perform flash programmable read-only memory (PROM) image updates
  • Create multiple segments and domains using hardware, system configuration, and access control lists (ACLs)
  • Use OpenBoot PROM commands to gather system information and interpret the results
  • Define and alter nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) parameters
  • Describe how to configure and manage system hardware using the Solaris Operating System
  • Use Dynamic Reconfiguration to analyze, remove, and install system boards and move boards among domains
  • Interpret and apply troubleshooting strategies

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     Related Courses Back To Top

  • Before: SA-288 or WSB-288-180: Solaris 8 Operating System System Administration II
  • Before: SA-389 or WSB-389-180: Solaris 8 Operating System-TCP/IP Network Administration
  • After: ES-255: Sun Hardware RAID Storage Systems Administration
  • After: ES-330: Sun Enterprise Cluster Administration
  • After: SA-400: Solaris System Performance Management

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         Course Content Back To Top



    Module 1: Overview of the Sun Fire Midframe Server Architecture

  • Introduce Sun Fire midframe server models
  • Introduce the architecture of the Sun Fire midframe server
  • Describe the Sun Fireplane interconnect
  • Describe Sun Fireplane switches
  • Identify integrated service processors
  • Power distribution in Sun Fire midframe servers
  • FrameManager in the Sun Fire midframe server
  • Perform power-up procedures for Sun Fire midframe servers


    • Module 2: Configuring and Monitoring Servers Using Platform Shell Commands
  • Describe the platform shell
  • Configure servers by using platform shell commands
  • Monitor servers by using platform shell commands
  • Identify additional platform shell commands


    • Module 3: Configuring Segments and Domains
  • Describe segments and domains
  • Configure domains
  • Navigate between shells


    • Module 4: Implementing Dynamic Reconfiguration
  • Describe Dynamic Reconfiguration
  • Perform Dynamic Reconfiguration


    • Module 5: Configuring OpenBoot PROM and NVRAM Variables
  • Describe OpenBoot PROM Commands
  • Configure NVRAM domain variables
  • Configure OpenBoot devices
  • Map OpenBoot physical devices


    • Module 6: Identifying the Maintenance Utilities of the Solaris Operating E nvironment
  • View system components
  • Configure system components
  • Identify the information displayed by maintenance utilities


    • Module 7: Multipathing I/O Management
  • Implement Internet Protocol Messaging Protocol (IPMP) technology
  • Describe the effect of physical interface failures on the network
  • Configure an IPMP group
  • Automate IPMP configuration in IPv4 and IPv6


    • Module 8: Troubleshooting Sun Fire Servers
  • Identify diagnostic programs for testing servers
  • Identify the types of Sun Fire midframe POST
  • Identify methods to troubleshoot server failure
  • Manage hardware error conditions
  • Recover from a locked domain
  • Detect errors in Sun Fire midframe servers
  • Identify troubleshooting strategy

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