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PREREQUISITES |
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Knowledge of Solaris and some previous administration experience is helpful. |
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SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION OVERVIEW |
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- Sun Hardware types
- Solaris Operating Environment configurations
- Review of administration functions
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FILE SYSTEM STRUCTURE |
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- File system structure and slicing
- The Solaris directory hierarchy
- Identification of files and file types
- Using symbolic and hard links
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DISK STORAGE MANAGEMENT FOR LOCAL DISK DRIVES |
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- Disk concepts and structure; slices (partitions) and Solaris device naming conventions
- Physical disk connection
- Listing and reconfiguring the systems devices
- Slicing and labelling disks with the format and fmthard utilities and the Solaris Management Console (smc)
- Creating a Solaris file system with newfs
- Using tunefs to change file system parameters
- Deciding how to mount the new files system; updating /etc/vfstab for permanent mounts
- Using fsck to perform file system integrity checks. Monitoring disk usage and directory sizes
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AN INTRODUCTION TO ZFS |
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ZFS is a new disk storage pool and file system present in the main Solaris release update 2 of June 2006. This section gives a good practical introduction to using ZFS.
- Creating a storage pool
- Adding further devices
- Removing a poll
- Creating file systems within a pool
- The ZFS browser-based GUI
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FILE SYSTEM MAINTENANCE AND SECURITY |
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- The mount command
- Mount options
- The cachefs and LOFS file systems
- Handling CD and floppy disks
- USB and Firewire devices
Making room on the file system
- File system security
- SMC file system functions
- Utilities for file system monitoring
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SYSTEM BUILD (INSTALLING SOLARIS) |
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- Planning disk layout
- Booting from CD, DVD or network to build
- Building Solaris from scratch; selecting software options, disk slicing, etc.
- Post-installation procedures
- Overview of automatic installation
- Upgrading from a previous Solaris release
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PATCH ADMINISTRATION |
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- Obtaining and installing the latest patches, including clusters and individual patches
- Examining the current patch level of a machine
- Removing patches
- An introduction to Sun Update Connection for automatic updates and patches
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SOFTWARE CONFIGURATION AND PACKAGE ADMINISTRATION |
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- How to set up and customise a variety of tools, including shells, Common Desktop Environment, manual pages and AnswerBook
- Examining, Installing and removing software packages using command line utilities, including Solaris distribution options
- Using the Webstart installer mechanism to install software
- Using the Solaris Product Registry (prodreg)
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BOOT PROM |
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- Monitor prompt commands (boot, probe-scsi, probe-ide, test-net, devalias etc.)
- Identifying system settings such as the default boot device
- Using the eeprom command to view and change settings
- Troubleshooting boot failure
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START-UP AND SHUTDOWN |
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- In-depth explanation of the new Service Management Facility (SMF)
- Using SMF utilities to monitor and control boot processes
- Modifying SMF properties with svccfg
- Self healing and Process Contracts
- SMF repositories and recovery
- Adding your own scripts and SMF service descriptions at system boot
- SMF milestones
- Understanding and changing run levels
- Shutting down, suspending and powering off the system
- Power management
- Additional information for previous Solaris versions
- Notes on using the GRUB bootloader on Intel platforms
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ADDING AND MAINTAINING USERS |
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- Concepts
- Ownership of files, directories and processes
- Classes of user
- Adding a user manually, via command line tools and graphically
- User initialisation file management
- Password control
- Real and effective id
- Using SMC for user management
- Introduction to Role Based Access Control (RBAC) facilities
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SOLARIS GROUPS |
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- Overview
- The group file
- Group identification of files and directories
- The newgrp, groups and chgrp commands
- Complete example of creating and using a group
- Using SMC with groups
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SYSTEM SECURITY |
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- Monitoring access to the system
- Using the su (Switch User) command, and monitoring its use
- Restricting file and directory access using protection mechanisms, including access modes, s and t bits, umask, chown and chmod
- Introduction to Access Control Lists (ACLs)
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ADDING A PRINTER |
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- Overview
- Printer types and connection methods, including network printers
- Software modifications
- Spooling system commands
- Administrator control commands
- Remote printer facilities
- Printer classes
- Using the Solaris GUIs for printer management
- Specifying both system and user default printer destinations
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SYSTEM PROCESSES |
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- Examining and controlling processes using ps, kill, and the Process Manager
- Automating commands with crontab and at, for one-off and regular command execution
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BACK-UP AND RESTORE UTILITIES, INCLUDING SNAPSHOTS |
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- Overview and Preparation
- Tape types and capacities
- Sample ufsdump commands
- Backup strategies
- Taking a complete backup with ufsdump
- Summary of ufsdump command options
- Using fssnap to snapshot the file system and take a clean backup
- Restoring individual files and directories
- Restoring an entire system
- Considerations for disaster recovery
- The tar, cpio and mt utilities
- Backups versus archives
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SOLARIS 10 SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION II (SUN SA-202-S10) DURATION 40 HRS |
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PREREQUISITES |
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Knowledge of Solaris 10 System Administration I. |
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COURSE CONTENT INTRODUCTION TO ETHERNET AND NETWORKING |
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- Overview
- Simplest Ethernet
- Ethernet options
- The ISO/OSI 7 layer model
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THE IP NETWORK |
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- IP addresses, sockets and ports, multicast addresses
- Hardware requirements/options
- Twisted pair & fibre optic
- Facts and Figures
- Troubleshooting
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NETWORK CONFIGURATION |
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- Client/server concepts, processes and control
- Configuring a machines IPv4 interfaces manually for network connection, with many ifconfig examples
- Understanding Internet Address classes and CIDR, and formulating Internet addresses
- Configuring logical interfaces
- Multipathing configuration and operation (Failover and load spreading)
- Configuring an Internetwork Router
- Examples of route commands for manual routing, and persistent routes
- in.routed for dynamic routing
- Subnets and netmasks
- Network basic commands and the associated security files
- Running GUI programs using X-Windows facilities
- Network daemons
- Inetd. and SMF
- The inetadm and inetconv commands
- TCP wrappers
- Network Monitoring utilities (snoop, netstat, traceroute, nmap, ethereal, etc)
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NETWORK FILE SYSTEM (NFS) AND AUTOFS |
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- Overview
- Benefits and uses of NFS
- NFS Installation
- NFS Administration
- Sharing file systems
- The mount command
- NFS security
- NFS logging
- NFS strategies
- Introduction and basic use of the automounter (AutoFS)
- Using SMC with NFS
- NFSV4 features
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SAMBA SERVER OVERVIEW |
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A brief overview of this powerful and impressive free open-source server now included with Solaris 10, which effectively turns a Solaris machine (or other UNIX/Linux machine) into a Windows NT server. A working SAMBA installation will be created, with graphical configuration using swat via a web browser. |
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OVERVIEW OF SOLARIS NAME SERVICES |
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- NIS. NIS+, LDAP and DNS - how they work, advantages and disadvantages of each
- The Name Service Switch and /etc/nsswitch.conf
- The Name Service Cache Daemon (nscd)
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NETWORK INFORMATION SERVICE (NIS) |
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- Introduction
- Creating a fully-functioning NIS service
- Using the ypinit command to create Master and Slave servers
- Updating the NIS information from the command line
- Using SMC with NIS to manage users, groups and hosts
- Adding NIS clients
- NIS file policies
- Creating and using netgroups with /etc/netgroup
- Adding your own data to NIS
- Modifying the NIS Makefile
- Disabling NIS
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DNS AND LDAP CLIENTS |
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- Configuring clients to use DNS and LDAP name services
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INTRODUCTION TO THE APACHE WEB SERVER |
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- Major Components
- Browser invocation and configuration
- Apache Web Server installation and activation
- Installing a custom web site
- Enabling the Jakarta Tomcat java facility
- Examples of common Apache configuration directives
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SETTING UP ELECTRONIC MAIL |
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- Overview
- How to use mail
- Mail routing
- Files and programs involved
- Setting up mail - local network
- Name Service considerations
- Using NFS to mount mail boxes
- Testing mail delivery
- Mail aliases
- External links and connecting to the Internet
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