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ES-420 - Sun Fire Midrange Server Administration
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| The Sun Fire Midrange Server Administration course provides students with the information needed to configure, monitor, and manage the Sun Fire V1280/E2900, 3800, 4800/E4900, 4810, and 6800/E6900 midrange servers. Additionally, students implement concurrent maintenance and high-availability strategies, and use firmware tools and applications to assess a system.
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| Lab Information |
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| The hands-on labs offered in this course may involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.
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| Who Can Benefit |
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| Enterprise system administrators, platform and domain administrators, system administrators, and anyone responsible for supporting midrange networked database servers.
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| Prerequisites |
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To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:
- Detailed knowledge of the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and UNIX
- Knowledge of backup and storage
- Detailed knowledge of network administration
- Knowledge of Sun Management Center 3.0 software
- Experience administrating workgroup and enterprise servers
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| Skills Gained |
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Upon completion of this course, you should be able to:
- Understand system controller administration, set up and configure the system controller, and navigate platform and domain shells
- Perform common configuration and administrative tasks
- Create and manage segments and domains
- UConfigure a system for multipathed I/O and dynamically manage system resources
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| Related Courses |
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- Before: ST-350: Sun Systems Fault Analysis Workshop
- Before: ES-310: Sun StorEdge Volume Manager
- Before: ES-415: Systems Management Using Sun Management Center
- After: ES-255: Sun Hardware RAID Storage Systems Administration
- After: ES-438: Sun Cluster 3.1 Advanced Administration
- After: SA-400: Solaris System Performance Management
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| Course Content |
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Module 1 - Introducing the Sun Fire Midrange Servers
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- List the functional goals of the Sun Fire midrange server product line
- Locate Sun Microsystems web sites containing important Sun Fire midrange server information
- List the server models that comprise the Sun Fire server product line
- Identify the disks, disk arrays, and backup devices that the Sun Fire midrange servers support
- Describe the key features of each Sun Fire midrange server model
- Power on and off each Sun Fire midrange server
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Module 2 - Sun Fire Midrange Server Components
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- Identify the Sun Fire midrange physical resources by location and function
- Locate and describe the function of the Sun Fire midrange server system controller boards
- Access the system controller platform shell
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Module 3 - Using the Sun Fire HES System Controller Networks and Software
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- Describe how to use Lights-Out Management (LOM) to perform Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server platform administrative functions
- Describe how to display and manage Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server controller hardware attributes by using LOM shell commands
- Describe how to access and manage the Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server system controller
- Describe how to use the LOM shell to manage Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server Time-of-Day (TOD)
- Monitor the Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server platform by using LOM shell commands
- Power-cycle the Sun Fire V1280/E2900 server by using LOM shell commands and by using the front panel power rocker switch
- Identify the platform shell commands you can use to display Sun Fire 3800, 4800/E4900, 4810, and 6800/E6900 server system information, set up system hardware
- Describe three methods you can use to connect to the system controller shells
- Describe how to initiate a remote connection with Secure Shell (SSH)
- Describe how to navigate between shells on the Sun Fire 3800, 4800/E4900, 4810, and 6800/E6900 servers
- Configure the platform and system controller by using the platform shell
- Configure the platform TOD
- Display and change system controller parameters by using the platform shell
- Describe how to view the system controller message logs
- Describe how to manage the system controller for configuration and reboot
- Describe how to manage the system controller for failover operation
- Describe how to use system controller commands to monitor the platform
- Describe how to power on and off the system components
- Describe how to update the platform firmware
- Describe how to back up and restore a system controller
- Describe how to use SSH to secure the Sun Fire midrange server system controller
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Module 4 - Domain Configuration
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- Describe the benefits of dividing the Sun Fire midrange servers into multiple segments and domains
- Describe the effects of system segmenting and multiple domains
- Create a system configuration consisting of multiple segments and domains
- Configure an access control list (ACL) for a domain
- Define passwords for a domain
- Correlate OpenBoot programmable read-only memory (PROM) device tree entries to the physical system components of the Sun Fire midrange servers
- Determine how the Solaris OS references system components
- Identify the steps required to configure devices in the Solaris OS
- Identify Solaris OS support utilities
- Navigate between shell environments
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Module 5 - Multipathing I/O Management
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- Describe how Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software uses multipath access to I/O devices to provide a high level of disk availability and performance
- Describe the purpose of Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software
- Identify other products that use multipathing I/O to solve path failover and provide higher path bandwidth
- Identify I/O software and hardware devices that Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software supports
- List terms and acronyms that are associated with Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software
- Describe how Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software works
- Describe how Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager uses a device tree to map supported devices
- Describe how to display path states and Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) device attributes
- Configure Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software for installation, post-installation setup and verification, and domain configuration verification
- Edit the Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software configuration file to enable or disable Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software and for load balancing
- Describe how to back up the Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software before performing an upgrade to the operating system
- Describe how Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software does automatic path discovery
- Describe how to use Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software to manage and get information about multiplexed devices
- Describe how Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software manages automatic failover
- Describe the purpose of Internet Protocol Multipathing (IPMP)
- List three different methods of combining Ethernet links to increase throughput or availability
- List the hardware and software requirements for configuring IPMP
- List the rules you must follow when you configure an IPMP group
- Describe how IPMP works
- Describe the parameters contained in the multipathing configuration file
- Describe the new commands available for configuring IPMP
- Describe the multiple components of an IPMP configuration
- Describe an IPMP implementation
- Describe how to verify IPMP load spreading
- Automate IPMP configuration when using Sun StorEdge Traffic Manager software with Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4)
- Configure IPMP using IPv6
- Describe how automatic IPMP failover and recovery is supported by dynamic reconfiguration
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Module 6 - Dynamic Reconfiguration
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- Describe the benefits of dynamic reconfiguration (DR)
- Analyze domain configuration status using DR
- Identify the steps required for removing and installing system boards using DR
- Move a system board between domains using DR
- Describe the benefits of Reconfiguration Coordination Manager (RCM)
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Module 7 - Sun Fire Midrange Systems Management Through Sun MC 3.x Software
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- Describe the architecture behind Sun Management Center software (Sun MC software) on the Sun Fire midrange servers
- Describe the installation and configuration procedures on the Sun Fire midrange servers for Sun MC software
- List and describe the base modules that are installed for the Sun Fire midrange agent
- Explore the Sun Fire midrange servers using Sun MC software
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