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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

Over 50 advanced recipes to help you configure and

administer Oracle Solaris systems

Alexandre Borges

BIRMINGHAM - MUMBAI

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Oracle Solaris 11 Advanced Administration Cookbook

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First published: October 2014

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Credits

Author Alexandre Borges Reviewers Hosam Al Ali Darryl Gove Mark Round Johnny Trujillo Commissioning Editor Pramila Balan Acquisition Editors Subho Gupta Mohammad Rizvi Content Development Editor Anila Vincent Technical Editors Nikhil Potdukhe Anand Singh Copy Editors Dipti Kapadia Insiya Morbiwala Karuna Narayanan Stuti Srivastava

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About the Author

Alexandre Borges

is an Oracle ACE in Solaris and has been teaching

courses on Oracle Solaris since 2001. He worked as an employee and a contracted instructor at Sun Microsystems, Inc. until 2010, teaching hundreds of courses on Oracle Solaris (such as Administration, Networking, DTrace, and ZFS), Oracle Solaris Performance Analysis, Oracle Solaris Security, Oracle Cluster Server, Oracle/Sun hardware, Java Enterprise System, MySQL Administration, MySQL Developer, MySQL Cluster, and MySQL tuning. He was awarded the title of Instructor of the Year twice for his performance teaching Sun Microsystems courses.

Since 2009, he has been imparting training at Symantec Corporation (NetBackup, Symantec Cluster Server, Storage Foundation, and Backup Exec) and EC-Council [Certified Ethical Hacking (CEH)]. In addition, he has been working as a freelance instructor for Oracle education partners since 2010.

In 2014, he became an instructor for Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) and Brocade. Currently, he also teaches courses on Reverse Engineering, Windows Debugging, Memory Forensic Analysis, Assembly, Digital Forensic Analysis, and Malware Analysis.

Alexandre is also an (ISC)² CISSP instructor and has been writing articles on the Oracle Technical Network (OTN) on a regular basis since 2013.

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Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the technical reviewers of the book—Mark Round, Darryl Gove, Philip Brown, Hosam Al Ali, and Johnny Trujillo—who have performed outstanding work and have helped to make this book better than the initial draft. Especially, my sincere and honest thanks to Mark Round for a detailed and accurate review of this book. I am certainly a lucky professional to have all the support and help of Ms. Swati Kumari, Ms. Anila Vincent, Mr. Mohammad Rizvi, Anand Singh, and Nikhil Potdukhe from the Packt Publishing team during all the stages of this book. On several occasions, Ms. Swati and Ms. Anila offered sweet and good words, which helped me to continue writing. Although they are not part of this book, thanks to Rick Ramsey (from Oracle), who has helped, taught, and motivated me

to write for Oracle Technical Network (OTN), and to Karen Perkins (technical editor and writer), from whom I have been learning how to write better articles.

Finally, I owe all my education and success to my mother, who has worked her whole life and taken huge efforts to give me an opportunity to study even when there was no money to live.

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About the Reviewers

Hosam Al Ali is a Senior Unix/Linux System Administrator since 8 years and lives in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is working at Sun Microsystems, Inc., with the open source community as Team Leader for Arabic Language Translation and is a Top Contributor at opensolaris.org.

He is certified by Sun Microsystems, Inc., and has accomplished Solaris 10, 11 courses and exams. He writes a blog at http://hosam.wordpress.com to share his experience and skills online.

I got married recently and would like to say a big and warm thanks to my sweetheart, Heba. She has helped and supported me to work through the nights in order to complete this book and finish it on time.

Darryl Gove is a Senior Principal Software Engineer in the Oracle Solaris Studio team, who works on optimizing applications and benchmarks for current and future processors. He is the author of Multicore Application Programming: for Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris (Developer's Library), Addison Wesley; Solaris Application Programming, Prentice Hall; and

The Developer's Edge, Sun Microsystems. He writes a blog at http://www.darrylgove.com.

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Mark Round is a systems administrator with nearly 20 years of experience running Unix. Starting with NetBSD on his Amiga, he has administered a diverse variety of platforms, including OpenVMS, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, FreeBSD, and Linux.

He has managed thousands of systems across a wide range of industries, from publishing and media to telecom and finance. Currently, he works for one of the largest media companies in the world as a DevOps engineer; he has spent the last few years working on large-scale infrastructure projects.

He is involved in a number of open source community projects. He maintains an IPS repository of useful Solaris 11 packages and writes his blog at http://www.markround.com.

I would like to thank my family and my wonderful fiancée, Jaleh.

Johnny Trujillo has experience as a teacher at a New York City college. He is a United States Air Force Reserve technologist, and with over 25 years of experience working with Solaris, Linux, Windows OS, as well as Networking, Telephony, Security, Data Centers, Virtualization, and Cloud Technologies, he runs his own computer training and ICT consulting business.

Johnny works as a Senior Project Manager, applying the PMI, PRINCE2, and Agile methodologies to manage the delivery of Data Centers, Virtual and Cloud Technology Infrastructure, and software implementations for the Financial, Banking, Mining, Airlines, Education, and Telecom industries.

I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to participate in the production of this insightful book, a valuable asset to anyone on the path to certification or to those who want to understand the recent changes in Oracle Solaris.

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