Solaris 11 OCA

Oracle Solaris 11 has a security mechanism within RBAC that goes beyond the normal OS security we may expect to find. We may want a user account to be able to back-up the complete file-system…

Oracle Solaris 11 has made a great step forward from version 10, one of those steps was the IPS software packaging system. Many administration tasks are simplified including the ability to verify that the installed…

Oracle Solaris 11 is a robust and complex Operating System that is often referred to a “carrier-grade”. In studying for the OCA Solaris 11 1ZO-821 you will not be expected to know the fully picture…

Using RBAC and Roles in oracle Solaris 11 is designed around the least privileged security model. Giving users the minimum rights they need to be able to accomplish their task. I am always shocked by…

Users in Oracle Solaris 11 are identified by a User ID and Group ID but we will see that each process has a Real, Effective and Set User ID and Group ID. We will see…

Using ZFS as the root file-system in Oracle Solaris 11 ensures that we can make backup boot environments that can be entered into from either the GRUB boot-loader, on Intel Systems, or the OpenBoot PROM,…