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IT Vendor Courses   Unix Solaris Training Courses

Solaris 9 Administration Part 1

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Course Duration: 4 days

Course Code: S9ADM1

Course Description:

This course prepares new and experienced system administrators to successfully configure, manage, maintain and administer a Solaris™ system in a standalone environment.

Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators and users who require an understanding of the operating environment & wish to gain the necessary knowledge & skills to perform essential systems administration tasks within Solaris.

Upon successful completion of this course, delegates should be well positioned to undertake the Sun Certified System Administrator part I exam (Exam CX-310-014)

Prerequisites:

Delegates should have attended the Unix part I course or have equivalent experience.
Shell programming is beneficial, and this can be gained by attending the Unix part II course.

Relevant Certifications:

Sun Certified System Administrator (SCSA) for the Solaris Operating System (Solaris OS)

This course includes the following modules:

Introduction to Solaris

• Components of the Solaris operating environment.
• Key terminology.
• Roles of the administrator.

Administering the boot prom

• Use the OpenBoot PROM commands to identify system configuration, change the boot device and perform basic hardware testing.

Software installation

• Understand Solaris software groups and install a system for a networked standalone installation.

Managing packages

• Investigate software packages on the system.
• Add new software packages.
• Remove software packages.

Managing Patches

• Patch information.
• Patches installed on the system.
• Adding and removing patches.

Workstation booting

• System boot cycle.
• Run levels.
• Run Control scripts.
• The init process.
• Commands to bring the system down.
• Customizing the boot process.

System Security

• Access security.
• Restricting root login.
• Modify system files to investigate and control access to system.

User Management

• Administering users, groups & initialisation files.

Data Security

• Advanced file permissions – setuid, setgid, sticky bit.
• Access control lists

Process Control

• Administering processes.
• Process scheduling.

Understanding file types and the directory hierarchy

• Identify file types.
• Links.
• The purpose of the main directories.

Configuring Disks

• Adding & identifying new devices.

Disk Slicing

• Disk planning.
• Disk partitions.
• Disk labels.

Creating and managing filesystems

• Solaris™ file system.
• Structure.
• Creating Unix Filesystem.
• The fsck utility.
• Monitoring file systems.

Mounting file systems

• Mounting and unmounting local Unix file systems. Using volume management with cdroms and floppy disks.

LP print service

• Setup a printer.
• Configure for local and remote printing.
• Print commands to print and monitor print requests

Backup and recovery concepts

• Investigate backup strategies and concepts.
• Review backup commands.

New Features of Solaris 9

• Investigate files and commands that have changed in the new release of software.

To make an enquiry for this course to be run ONSITE at your location, click here or call Sales on +44 (0) 20 7620 0033.

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