Oversikt This course is presented as instructor-led training in a classroom. The Sun Fire High-End Server Administration course provides students with the skill set necessary to identify the features and architecture specifics of the Sun Fire 15K/12K and Sun Fire 25K/20K servers. These skills include performing configuration and platform administration methodologies supported by Sun on the Sun Fire High-End server, and being familiar with and using troubleshooting tools and techniques available within the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS) relevant to the Sun Fire High-End servers.
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- Sun Fire Midrange Server Administration (ES-420)
- Systems Management Using Sun Management Center 3.6 (ES-426)
- Network Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System (SA-300-S10)
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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
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
- 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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
- Solaris System Performance Management (SA-400)
- Foundations of Sun Java Composite Application Platform Suite (Java CAPS) II (SB-CAP-0502)