Solaris Training Overview
This course will teach the commands and methods needed to setup
and manage a Solaris version 8, 9, or 10 system. The course will
also use a problem solving approach in the lab exercises to teach
system administrators advanced topics, for long-term mangement of the system.
Systems: Solaris version 8,9, or 10, running on Sparc or x86/x64 configurations
Solaris Training Prerequisites
It is assumed that the participant has successfully completed the
Fundamentals of Solaris course, or has equivalent system time
as a user.
Solaris Training Course duration
This course normally requires five (5) days, approximately 60%
lecture, and 40% lab time.
Solaris Training Course Objectives
On completion of this course, a system administrator should be able to
install, update, and boot the Solaris operating system; set up
user accounts and directories; prepare queues for use; perform
backups for integrity and performance reasons; monitor the system
for performance and do basic setup of network software and capabilities.
Solaris Training Course outline
Advanced System Concepts for System Administrators
Process concepts
Shell command usage and review
Optimizing system help information
System administrator functions
Using the root account
Using the admintool/smc graphical interfaces
Manipulating system default environment files
System Installation and Updating
Installation types and methods
Installing the Solaris operating system
Upgrading to a newer version of Solaris
Maintaining the system via patches
Adding additional products to the system (packages)
Reconfiguring the Solaris kernel via parameters
Startup and Shutdown
Manipulating EEPROM commands and parameters
Using the OpenBoot PROM commands
Default bootstrap
Boot to single-user mode
Startup methods and procedures
Adding procedures to the startup mechanism
Shutdown methods and control
Managing of System Users
UID and GID concepts
Creation of a user account
Security through password aging
Controlling access by groups
Login sequence
Setting up user environment files
Using and maintaining user login files
Viewing and controlling running processes
Basic setup of the Common Desktop Environment
dtlogin (login manager)
dtsession (session manager)
dtwm (workspace manager)
(dtwm.fp) front panel layout
(.fp and .dt files) controls and actions
Managing Printer Queues
Creation of an execution print queue
Commands to manipulate queues
Commands to manipulate jobs in queues
Managing Disk and Tape Volumes
Commands to manipulate disks/filesystems
partitioning disk surfaces with format
creating ufs file systems (newfs)
manipulating file system structures
verifying file system structures with fsck
making file systems available to software (mount)
Commands to manipulate tape volumes:
tar utility
ufsdump and ufsrestore utilities
mt control program
Using the zfs filesystem capabilities (Solaris 10)
Monitoring System Activity
Informational Utilities
The vmstat utility
The iostat utility
The sar utility
The netstat utility
Maintaining swap and paging space(s)
Building and using the top facility
Maintaining System Integrity
Login and user accounting
Command/process level accounting
Using cron tables
Creating and Using zones
Network Setup and Configuration
TCP/IP address selection
Host names and related files
Configuring network devices
Network testing with ping
Network utilities: telnet, rlogin, rcp, rsh
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