Advanced Solaris 2.X System Administration

5 Days course

Language: English

This course is only available on request!!


DESCRIPTION
Students are prepared to install and maintain a local-area network of workstations running the Solaris 2.X operating system.
Students learn how to install software for a server, how to add devices, how to configure the client server environment, how to add terminals, and how to configure the NIS+ name service.

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Custom install a Solaris 2.X server
Use the Solaris 2.X device naming conventions
Use the format Utility to display partition information
Change system run levels
Add startup files for customized services
Install and remove software packages
Add peripheral devices such as terminals and modems
Administer disks and file systems
Configure the NFS
Use the automounter
Add and remove diskless clients
Backup and restore file systems
Perform basic recovery and troubleshooting proceduresb
Use scripts to configure and administer the NIS+ environment

WHO SHOULD ATTEND:
Those Solaris users who are tasked with System Administration responsibilities or anybody who wishes to gain an in depth practical knowledge of Solaris 2.X System Administration.

ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE
Students should be able to use OpenWindows, edit files with either vi or the text editor, use fundamental UNIX commands, and have had three months or more experience with a Solaris system.

OUTLINES

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION TO UNIX
1) The history of UNIX
2) Kernel
3) Shell
4) File System
5) The network
6) Distributed processing

CHAPTER 2: CLIENT/SERVER MODEL
1) Time sharing vs. Central vs. Distributed
2) Configurations

CHAPTER 3: INSTALLING THE OPERATING SYSTEM
1) Introduction
2) Client/Server relationship
3) Solaris Installation Options
4) Hardware Requirements
5) Installation
6) Booting with the CD-ROM
7) Configuring the workstation
8) File Systems
9) The final states
10) The root password

CHAPTER 4: THE BOOT PROCESS
1) SPARC bootstrap procedure
2) /sbin/init Process
3) Run control scripts
4) The start files
5) The kill files
6) Adding a new run control file
7) Disabling a run control file

CHAPTER 5: CHANGING RUN LEVELS
1) Changing run levels
2) shutdown command
3) init command
4) hald command
5) reboot command

CHAPTER 6: RECONFIGURING THE KERNEL
1) The kernel
2) /kernel directory
3) /platform directory
4) /usr/kernel directory
5) /etc/system file
6) Kernel parameters

CHAPTER 7: DEVICE CONFIGURATION AND NAMING
1) About device drivers
2) physical device names
3) logical device names
4) instance device names
5) dmesg Command
6) format Command
7) prtconf Command

CHAPTER 8: CONFIGURING A LOCAL FILE SYSTEM
1) Disk terminology
2) Disk slices
3) format Utility
4) partition menu
5) Viewing the VTOC
6) mounting a file system

CHAPTER 9: CONFIGURING A NETWORK FILE SYSTEM
1) About NFS
2) NFS Server tasks
3) sharing and unsharing the file system
4) NFS Server daemons
5) NFS Client tasks
6) mounting and unmounting
7) NFS Client daemons

CHAPTER 10: CONFIGURING THE AUTOMOUNTER
1) The Automounter
2) The automount command
3) The autofs filesystem
4) The automountd daemon
5) Master map
6) Direct map
7) Indirect map

CHAPTER 11: VOLUME MANAGER
1) Volume Management
2) Access to diskettes
3) Access to CDs
4) The vold daemon
5) The /etc/vold.conf file

CHAPTER 12: BACKUP AND RECOVERY
1) Backups
2) The ufsdump command
3) Incremental backups
4) The ufsrestore command
5) Other archiving commands

CHAPTER 13: SOFTWARE ADMINISTRATION
1) Software administration
2) How is a package added?
3) Verification of a package
4) How to remove a package
5) Admintool

CHAPTER 14: DEVICE ADMINISTRATION
1) Peripherals
2) Adding a new device
3) Serial ports
4) DTE and DCE
5) Hard and soft carrier
6) Modems

CHAPTER 15: THE SERVICE ACCESS FACILITY
1) Services and SAF
2) Serial port managers
3) Setting up terminals with admintool
4) Setting up terminals with Solstice AdminSuite
5) The sacadm command
6) The ttyadm command
7) The pmadm command

CHAPTER 16: SECURITY
1) Common sense rules to security
2) Restricted shells
3) User status
4) Restricted root access
5) The /etc/default/su file
6) Automated Security Enhancement Tool
7) ASET security
8) ASET tasks
9) ASET reports
10) ASET master files
11) The aset command

CHAPTER 17: THE NIS/NIS+ ENVIRONMENT
1) The Domain Name Service
2) What is the Network Information Service
3) NIS maps
4) What is NIS?
5) NIS and NIS+ working together

CHAPTER 18: SETTING UP NIS
1) Setting up the NIS root master
2) Setting up a NIS client
3) Additional NIS+ commands


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