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Sun Ops Center Administration (VM-440)

Course ID : VM-440 Duration : 3 days

Tailored for system administrators, IT architects, and Data center architects, this Sun Ops Center Administration course provides the practical experience you need to successfully deploy and administer Sun Ops Center in your data center. The course also describes underlying technologies and best practices for deployment. Sun Ops Center offers a comprehensive management solution for physical and virtual system resources. This enterprise-class solution simplifies resource discovery and monitoring, provides operating system and firmware provisioning, performs comprehensive update and patch management, manages virtual environments such as Solaris Containers and Logical Domains, and supports hardware management from power up to production. Using Sun Ops Center will enable you to manage thousands of systems simultaneously.



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VM-440

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Duration
3 days

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Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators, IT architects, and other individuals tasked with the following responsibilities:

  • Data center planning
  • Administering heterogeneous server platforms
  • Administering heterogeneous operating system environments
  • Installing and configuring Sun Ops Center
  • Administering Sun Ops Center

Prerequisites

  • Administer the Solaris 10 OS
  • Administer Ethernet networks
  • Perform basic Sun server initial setup tasks
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Skills Gained

  • Explore Sun Ops Center architecture
  • Prepare a datacenter for Sun Ops Center installation
  • Install Sun Ops Center
  • Discover/register hardware asset (client system, manual discovery)
  • Discover/register OS asset (client system, manual discovery)
  • Discover/register software (server system, service tag)
  • Load OS image
  • Create OS profile
  • Load firmware image
  • Create firmware profile
  • Install OS
  • Create system inventory
  • Create update profile
  • Create update policy
  • Create update job (install package or patch)
  • Compare inventories
  • Run a baseline report
  • Run a CVE compliance report
  • View monitored data for hardware
  • View monitored OS data
  • Set monitor thresholds for OS

Course Content

Module 1 - Sun Ops Center Overview

  • IT Challenges and Value Proposition
  • Sun Ops Center Overview
  • Sun Ops Center Features
  • Sun Ops Center Benefits

Module 2 - Sun Ops Center Architecture

  • Sun Ops Center Architecture
  • Communications in Ops Center
  • Ops Center Technologies
  • Ops Center Product Capabilities

Module 3 - Installing and Configuring Sun Ops Center

  • Use Cases and Requirements
  • HA Configuration
  • Software Installation Process and Recommendations
  • Basic Configuration Walkthrough
  • Post Configuration Validation
  • Configuration Options
  • Installing Proxy Controllers
  • Uninstallation

Module 4 - Discovering and Managing Assets Using Sun Ops Center

  • Discovery, Registration and Management of Assets Overview
  • Discovering Assets
  • Registering Discovered Assets
  • Managing Discovered Assets

Module 5 - Monitoring and Managing Assets Using Sun Ops Center

  • Management and Monitoring Overview
  • System Management and Monitoring
  • OS Management and Monitoring
  • Managing Groups of Assets

Module 6 - Managing Ops Center Libraries

  • Introduction to Ops Center Libraries
  • Managing the OS Provisioning Library
  • Managing the Firmware Provisioning Library

Module 7 - Provisioning Operating Systems Using Ops Center

  • OS Provisioning Overview
  • Managing OS Profiles
  • Configuring DHCP
  • Provisioning an OS
  • Installing JET Modules
  • Running Scripts in OS Provisioning

Module 8 - Provisioning Firmware Using Ops Center

  • Firmware Provisioning Overview
  • Managing Firmware Profiles
  • Provisioning Firmware
  • Using Firmware Compliance Reports

Module 9 - Performing Update Management Using Ops Center

  • Update Management Overview
  • Update Management Prerequisites
  • Managing Updates with Ops Center
  • Using Catalogs to Manage Updates
  • Running Reports in Ops Center

Module 10 - Managing Ops Center Storage Libraries

  • Storage Library Management Overview
  • Managing Fibre-Channel Storage Libraries
  • Managing NAS Storage Libraries
  • Using Storage Libraries

Module 11 - Managing Solaris Containers Using Ops Center

  • Managing Solaris Containers Overview
  • Creating and Deleting Zones
  • Modifying Zone Configuration
  • Discovering and Managing Zones
  • Monitoring Zones
  • Changing Zone States
  • Adding Storage to Zones
  • Managing Zone Networks
  • Cloning Zones

Module 12 - Managing Logical Domains Using Ops Center

  • Introducing Logical Domains
  • Provisioning the Control Domain
  • Logical Domain Host Operations
  • Creating a Guest Domain
  • Provisioning a Guest Domain
  • Monitoring a Guest Domain
  • Guest Domain Life Cycle Operations
  • Migrating a Guest Domain

Module 13 - Advanced Update Management with Ops Center

  • Disconnected Mode Configuration
  • Managing Local Software Updates
  • Updating the Windows OS
  • Updating with Solaris Live Upgrade

Module 14 - Performing Ops Center Administration

  • Using Administration Scripts
  • Managing Users
  • Managing Notifications
  • Managing Roles
  • Viewing Agent Controllers
  • Viewing Proxy Controllers
  • Viewing Log Files