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New Courses Offered!
We are now offering a variety of new specialized courses! The following of which are featured:
RH-245: Linux System Administrator I: This course gives direct experience with the most essential system administration tasks in RedHat. The course also instructs crucial system management skills including: configuring network interfaces, client set up of network protocols, managing local devices, installation, package management, performing system boot procedures, grub and controlling system processes.
RH-245: Linux System Administrator I
RH-295: Linux System Administrator II: This course provides hands-on experience working with more complex and integrated administration concepts, and builds upon the Part I course. Instructs essential local system administration skills including: Logical Volumes, Raid Management, and System Logging, SELinux and Virtual Machines.
RH-295: Linux System Administrator II
S-325: Solaris 10 Features for Experienced Solaris Systems Administrators: Students will be instructed and have labs in how to set up, configure, and administer the new features of the Solaris 10 Update 4 and Nevada Operating System releases including: Solaris Zones, ZFS, Dtrace, Predictive Self-Healing, Solaris Trusted Extensions, and operating system installation.
S-325: Solaris 10 Features for Experienced Solaris Systems Administrators
S-395: Configuring Security on the Solaris 10 OS: Provides enterprise-class features to help protect applications and data. Security Administrators can minimize and harden Oracle Solaris to implement a secure foundation for deploying services.
S-395: Configuring Security on the Solaris 10 OS
S-493: New Features of Solaris 11: This course demonstrates the enhancements to zones and ZFS as well as the new features. During the course, students will examine, through lecture and extensive hands-on work, the Automated Installer (AI), Image Packaging System (IPS) and network virtualization.
S-493: New Features of Solaris 11
S-495: Labeled Security Programming with Trusted Extensions: In this course, students will learn Label APIs to write programs to manage labeled data processes, including Solaris library routines and system calls that use Trusted Extensions parameters.
S-495: Labeled Security Programming with Trusted Extensions
S-595: Solaris Trusted Extensions Installation & Configuration: This course teaches how to design and configure Trusted Extensions security label mechanisms, use extended security features of the two graphical desktops, compartmentalize system administrator powers and control privileges and authorizations.
S-595: Solaris Trusted Extensions Installation & Configuration
N-495: Voice Over IP Foundations: In this course, students will learn how VoIP works, why VoIP works and how to use VoIP. This course will include configuring an IP Network using Cisco Routers and switches, learning IP fundamentals in order to make VoIP easier to understand. The last four days of class will focus on VoIP and IP Telephony.
N-495: Voice Over IP Foundations
N-595: VoIP Security Analysis and Design: In this course, the student delves into the dark world of attacking VoIP. Strategies cover attacks at all layers and demonstrate many vectors that work! Topics include how VoIP works, its interactions with the network, its vulnerabilities and mitigations. Focus is on the leading open source and proprietary technologies utilizing Asterisk and Cisco and the protocols SIP, H.323, RTP, MGCP, and Skinny.
N-595: VoIP Security Analysis and Design
Solaris 11 Is Here!
Oracle will be releasing Solaris 11 in November of 2011. Even before the release date, Oracle Solaris 11 Express has been available for developers and testers to make the transition easy and smooth. As instructors getting ready for the change, we have already been working with at Solaris 11 Express, and before that OpenSolaris.
Some of these changes include the cool GUI TimeSlider, similar to Apple Time Machine, utilizing ZFS snapshots; which allows a user to go back in time. For the administrator this is nothing more than a rollback to a ZFS snapshot. Other features in ZFS are DEDUP, encryption, and network virtualization, for easier implementation of QOS.
Transitions are always interesting, especially for instructors. We have to deal with the issues that involve architecting, implementing, and configuring a new operating system. We hope we can leverage our previous experience to help ease our students understanding. It is not just about learning the new commands, options or arguments; it is learning about the "big picture."
Solaris 10 was a good example of this. It had a variety of new commands to teach, but also a change in the way we approach administration. For example, Solaris 10 introduced Zones, Service Management Facility (SMF), and Zettabyte File System (ZFS).
Leveraging the previous experience with Solaris 10 is going to be key for a better understanding of Solaris 11. Enhancements to these same Zones and ZFS requires a strong background in Solaris 10. Even live upgrade experience to deal with multiple boot environments that involve root on ZFS (now the default behavior) and how we can snapshot, clone and patch the clones are now going to be considered normal procedures.
Two new features in Solaris 11, CrossBow and the Image Packaging System, may not necessarily require Solaris 10 background. Solaris 10 background just adds a little extra experience. CrossBow will allow for true virtualization of networks, allowing for easier implementation of quality of service for applications and zones. If these zones need to network within themselves, we can now efficiently create virtual switches. Going to a network aware automated update for packages, Solaris 11 promises to make upgrade and patch management much less painful whether you have Zones installed or not.
In the upcoming months, as Solaris 11 is officially released, look for more blogs to expand on all of these features.
We look forward to seeing you in our new courses being offered, including our newest Solaris class (S-493: New Features of Solaris 11).
Best Regards,
Bill Peterson
TechNow
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