Solaris System Administration Course

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