Oracle has developed Solaris 11 with simplification and modernization of installation as one of the key areas of focus and the lowering of up-front and ongoing costs of deploying Oracle Solaris-based systems and software stacks as one of the principal goals. A few of the benefits of these new Oracle Solaris installation technologies are:

• Improvement for the cloud-driven software lifecycle process
• Reduced complexity resulting from enterprise-scale flexibility features in the product
• Unified design that supports various installation options
• Enabled end-users able to take advantage of modern network protocols and architectures with WAN-based network and file-based software repositories
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Yet another addition to Oracle's Hands-on Labs series is "Protect Your Applications with Oracle Solaris Security," which examines privileges, RBAC (Rights and Authorizations) and integration with SMF (Service Management Facility). Students are assumed to have completed the lab "Installing oracle Solaris 11 Express in Oracle VM Virtual Box." There are four lab exercises:

• Introduction to Solaris RBAC and Privileges
• A closer look at Solaris Privileges
• Process privileges and rights
• SMF.process privileges and authorizations

Completion time for all four is approximately one hour.
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Among the many extraordinary features in Oracle Solaris 11 Express 2010.11, blogs Rob Johnston is a new service smtp-notify, that can be configured to send email notifications in response to various Fault Management events, such as when a hardware component has been diagnosed as faulty. These notifications can be configured for such FMA event types as problem-diagnosed; problem-updated; problem-repaired; and problem-resolved. The smtp-notify service is enabled out-of-the-box. Further, the blog continues, the smtp-notify service can also be configured to generate notifications for SMF service state transitions.
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