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. This course also prepares delegates for the Sun Certfifed Administrator For Solaris 8 Operating Environment, Part I Exam.
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
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This is an instructor led training course taught in a classroom based environment.
Course Classification:
Technical Training Course
Course Fee = £1300 (excl.VAT)
Scheduled course dates
| May 2008 |
June 2008 |
July 2008 |
August 2008 |
September 2008 |
| 20-23 | 2-5 | (30)-3 | 4-7 | 1-4 |
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If you want to attend the course but can't make the dates published then click here for details of our one-to-one training packages.
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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PTR Associates Limited
21A Peach Street, Wokingham, Berkshire, RG40 1XJ, United Kingdom
Tel: 0118 979 4000 Fax: 0118 979 4035
Email: training@ptr.co.uk
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