• Home
• Course Catalogue
• Certifications
• Onsite Training
• Scheduled Training
• E-Learning
• Managed Services
• Consulting
• Company
• Special Offers
• News
• Links
• Enquiry And Feedback Form

Training Course Outline

IT Vendor Courses   Unix Solaris Training Courses

Solaris 10 Administration Part 1

View course dates

Course Duration: 5 days

Course Code: SA10-PT1

Course Description:

This course prepares new and experienced system administrators to successfully configure, manage, maintain and administer a Solaris 10 system in a standalone environment.

Students who can benefit from this course are system administrators and users who require an understanding of the Solaris 10 operating environment & wish to gain the necessary knowledge & skills to perform essential systems administration tasks within Solaris™.

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 10:

• Components of the Solaris™ operating environment.
• Key terminology.
• Roles of the administrator.
• Identify key new features of Solaris 10

Administering the boot prom

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

Solaris 10 Software installation

• Understand Solaris software groups and install a system for a networked standalone installation using Solaris 10 OS.

Managing packages on a Solaris 10 system

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

Managing Patches on a Solaris 10 system

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

Understanding Workstation booting on a Solaris 10 OS

• System boot cycle.
• Features of the Solaris Management Facility.
• Run levels.
• Run Control scripts.
• The init process.
• Compare run levels and SMF milestones.
• Identify SMF commands.
• Investigate 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.

Identify other key new features of Solaris 10

• Investigate other features, 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.

Perpetual Solutions are a global provider of onsite training solutions throughout London, UK and the rest of the world. For scheduled training our UK partner network provides an unrivalled choice of courses.

Save as PDF

Print this course