Students who can benefit from this course include:

• Senior Sun Enterprise system administrators
• Senior service providers
• Operations managers
• Information technology planners
• Individuals responsible for supporting mainframe-style networked database servers
• Individuals responsible for configuring, upgrading, and supporting the Sun Fire High-End Servers

All those who attended the ES-4210 or VC-ES-4210 training courses.

• Provide administration support for the Solaris OS
• Understand the fundamentals of data storage administration
• Understand the fundamentals of Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking and administration
• Understand general enterprise server concepts
• Configure a Sun Management Center (Sun MC) server and use Sun MC software to monitor the server
• Troubleshoot server and network system software and hardware

• Identify Sun Fire High-End Server field-replaceable units (FRUs)
• Describe the Sun Fire High-End Server physical architecture
• Configure the Sun Fire High-End Server platform and domains
• Perform platform administration activities on the Sun Fire High-End Server
• Perform dynamic reconfiguration operations on the Sun Fire High-End Server domains
• Use available Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) and platform-specific tools to troubleshoot the Sun Fire High-End Server
• Identify and administer Capacity-on-Demand (COD) systems

After successfully completing the assessment, the students can attest to their knowledge of the topics described in the course outline.

Module 1 - Introducing the Sun Fire High-End Servers

• List the functional goals of the Sun Fire High-End Servers
• Identify the four Sun Fire High-End Servers
• Describe domains, board sets, and domain configuration units (DCUs)
• Describe the key features of the Sun Fire High-End Servers
• Describe the roles of the system controller and the System Management Services (SMS) software
• Describe some of the advanced reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features of the Sun Fire High-End Servers
• Describe Capacity-on-Demand (COD)

Module 2 - Sun Fire High-End Server Architecture

• Describe the Sun Fire High-End Server architecture
• Identify field-replaceable units (FRUs) by location and function
• Describe the procedure to power on and power off the Sun Fire High-End Server

Module 3 - Managing the Sun Fire High-End Server System Controller Networks and Software

• Identify the system controller's management networks
• Identify the system controller's System Management Services management features
• Identify the system controller's System Management Services startup script
• Identify the system controller's System Management Services daemons and their functions
• Identify the system controller's System Management Services directory structure
• View System Management Services configuration information on the system controller

Module 4 - Configuring the Sun Fire High-End Server

• Assign System Management Services administrative privileges to users
• Save and restore the system controller configuration data
• Verify platform hardware resources
• Verify system environments
• Configure an available component list (ACL) for a domain
• View system controller message logs
• Perform flash PROM image updates on various system components
• Configure the system controller failover

Module 5 - Configuring Sun Fire High-End Server Domains

• Describe the characteristics of a Sun Fire High-End Server domain
• List the information required to create a new domain
• Create a new Sun Fire High-End Server domain from the system controller
• Initialize a new domain from the system controller
• Describe the location of the Power-On Self-Test (POST) logs

Module 6 - POST, OpenBoot PROM, and Solaris OS Commands

• Explore the High-End Server Domain Power-On Self-Test
• Evaluate the Global Domain Configuration Descriptor (GDCD)
• Explain the structure of a Sun Fire High-End Server OBP device tree
• Describe how to locate CPUs, memory banks, and I/O interface cards given their OpenBoot PROM device tree address
• Configure the Solaris OS on the Sun Fire High-End Server domain
• Assess domain configuration using standard Solaris OS utilities

Module 7 - Dynamic Reconfiguration

• Describe the benefits of Dynamic Reconfiguration (DR)
• Discuss the restrictions and issues that can occur with Dynamic Reconfiguration
• Analyze domain configuration status using DR
• Identify the steps required for removing system boards and I/O boards using DR
• Identify the steps required for installing system boards and I/O boards using DR
• Move system boards and I/O boards between domains using DR

Module 8 - Managing the Sun Fire High-End Server System With Sun MC 3.x Software

• Configure the platform for COD
• Identify COD systems, part numbers and license requirements
• Identify COD SMS commands
• Manage, install and remove a COD RTU license key
• Enable, monitor and service COD resources
• Explore the Sun Management Center (Sun MC) software on a Sun Fire High-End Server
• Install Sun Management Center software on a Sun Fire High-End Server domain
• Identify Sun Fire High-End Server administrative groups and security
• Identify Sun Fire High-End Server topology objects
• Identify Sun Fire High-End Server platform config reader modules
• Describe the use of Platform/Domain State Management (PDSM)

Module 9 - Sun Fire High-End Server Capacity-on-Demand Version 2.0

• Configure the platform for Capacity-on-Demand version 2.0 software
• Identify Capacity-on-Demand systems
• Identify Capacity-on-Demand part number and license requirements
• Manage Capacity-on-Demand right-to-use (RTU) licenses
• Identify Capacity-on-Demand System Management Services commands
• Install and remove a Capacity-on-Demand RTU license key
• Enable Capacity-on-Demand resources
• Monitor Capacity-on-Demand resources
• Service Capacity-on-Demand V2.0 FRUs

Module 10 - Troubleshooting the Sun Fire High-End Server

• Understand how a Sun Fire High-End Server fails and recovers
• Understand the role of the system controller in failure logging
• Describe the different types of failures
• Find where failure information is recorded
• Interpret failure information
• Interpret system configuration using the Sun Explorer utility
• Understand support information requirements

The assessment questions test the students' knowledge of:

• The architecture, functional goals, and RAS features of the Sun Fire High-End Servers
• Identifying system components by location, layout, and function
• Performing configuration and platform administration methodologies supported by Sun on the Sun Fire High-End Servers
• Being familiar with and using troubleshooting tools and techniques available within the Solaris OS
• Configuring and managing the platform using System Management Services (SMS) utilities
• Initializing and configuring the Solaris OS on a domain
• Performing flash PROM image updates
• Creating, managing, and deleting multiple domains using hardware, system configuration, and available component lists (ACLs)
• Using OpenBoot PROM commands to gather system information and interpret the results