Solaris System Administration Course
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
Course Classification:
Technical Training Course
This is an instructor led training course taught in a classroom based environment.
Scheduled course dates
| September 2010 | October 2010 | November 2010 | December 2010 | January 2011 |
| 20-23 | - | 1-4 | 6-9 | - |
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If you would prefer to run this course at your premises as you have several employees to place on the course perhaps, then we are also able to offer onsite Unix Training and bespoke Unix courses
The Solaris System Administration course qualifies for the PTR Training Passport SAVE IT Scheme, which offers discounts on bookings for multiple courses and/or multiple delegates.