Learning Solaris 10 Check out the Zones F.A.Q. !

April 22, 2008 (Update) : New lab questions are available here.

This lab will take you through a basic configuration where two non-global zones will be installed. To illustrate the use of some of the zones configuration files, the second zone will be created by cloning the first one.
DISCLAIMER : modifying the file /etc/zones/index without going through the proper interfaces is absolutely NOT supported. It does work but you can have no certainty that it will work in the future. Just use that trick to get an understanding of how zones are installed.

Other points that are introduced include the automatic configuration of zones and the existence of a separate port namespace within each zone, permitting to start 2 webservers listening on port 80 on the same machine.

Exercise 3 illustrates the current way of blocking inter-zone traffic.

Go to the full Solaris 10 zones lab ( and solutions )

Other available Solaris 10 labs :

• SMF & RBAC
• The Basic Audit & Reporting tool
• The contract subsystem
• The user-attr database new parameters

T: zones

Let’s find out how to take advantage of RBAC authorizations for service management.

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Working with the basic audit & reporting tool.
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Last Edited : 15/02/2005

BART is a file tracking tool that operates entirely at the file system level. Using BART gives you the ability to quickly, easily, and reliably gather information about the components of the software stack that is installed on deployed systems.

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Working with process contracts.
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Last edited : 08/03/2005

A process contract is the formal definition of the relationship that exists between a Process A and its monitoring process. In case process A terminates abnormally, the monitoring process will be able to restart it.
This is a small exercise that is using the contract subsystem and its associated commmands.

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Playing with user_attr database
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Last Edited : 16/02/2005

This paper is meant to illustrate the new possibilities of the /etc/user_attr database. Up to Solaris 9, the database could be used to assign RBAC profiles, roles and authorizations to users as well as a default project.
3 new parameters are introduced as of Solaris 10.

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