Unix Courses > Solaris System Administration Training Course
Course Fee = £1350 (excl.VAT)
Solaris System Administration Course Outline
Course Description
The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the administrative aspects of the Solaris operating system. At the end of the course delegates will have the skills required to administer a Solaris system, including user management, disk management, backing up procedures, startup and shutdown procedures, and process management.
Course pre-requisites:
Delegates should be competent in the skills covered by the PTR Unix Fundamentals and PTR Shell Programming courses.
Topics covered on the 4 day Solaris System Administration course
Solaris Installation Process
Software & Patch Administration
- Adding software packages with pkgadd
- Rremoving software packages with pkgrm
- Patches
Solaris System Administration
- A few simple rules
- Where to get help
- Graphical Administration with admintool
Starting Up & Shutting Down
- The Solaris boot process
- Power on
- Kernel processes
- Solaris run levels
- Initialisation process
- Booting to single user mode
- Run control directories, Run control scripts
- Changing run levels, Customising run levels
- BootPROM, BootPROM commands
- NVRAM parameters
User Management
- /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group
- Useradd
- groupadd
- The user's home
- Checking passwd and group files
- The shells
- Customising user environments-initialisation scripts
- Default initialisation scripts
- Passwords
- Removing users
System Security
- Password Ageing
- Login control with /etc/default/login
- Switching users with su
- Standard file & directory permissions
- Special permissions
Process Management
- Processes overview
- Killing application processes
- Process scheduling
- Changing process priorities
- Multi-processor systems
Disk Management
- Disk label, disk geometry, disk layout
- Partitioning with format
- Device files
- Logical device names
- RAID
- Physical device names
- Kernel instance names
- Rebuilding device names
- Solaris file systems
- The ufs filesystem
- I-nodes
- Creating a file system with newfs
- Mounting a filesystems, Unmounting a file system
- Mounting at boot time
- File system corruption
- File system checking with fsck
- CDROM file systems, NFS file systems, RAM based file systems
- Swap management, swap devices
- Virtual swap
Backing Up
- Why backup?
- Backup media, Backup types
- Backing Up with tar
- Image copying with dd
- Backing up with cpio, Backing up with ufsdump
Solaris Printing
- User commands
- The scheduler
- Adding a local printer
- The print queue
This is an instructor led training course taught in a classroom based environment.
Course Classification:
Technical Training Course
Course Fee = £1350 (excl.VAT)
Scheduled course dates
| July 2009 |
August 2009 |
September 2009 |
October 2009 |
November 2009 |
| (29)-2 | 3-6 | 1-4 | 5-8 | 2-5 |
If you want to attend the course but can't make the dates published, then please get in touch as we may well be able to add additional dates to those published or to re-arrange the course. Additionally, you could take advantage of one-to-one training with our SoloIT Training packages that also enables you to attend this course on dates that suit.
The Solaris System Administration course qualifies for the PTR SAVE IT Scheme, which offers discounts on bookings for multiple courses and/or multiple delegates.
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