Solaris System Administration

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Course Length:

5 Days

Course Description:

Students are prepared to install and maintain a local-area network of Sun workstations running the Solaris operating system. Students learn how to install software for a server, how to add devices, how to configure the client server environment, how to add terminals, and how to configure the NIS+ name service.

Who Should Attend:

This course is for those Solaris users who are tasked with System Administration responsibilities or anybody who wishes to gain an in depth practical knowledge of Solaris System Administration.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Custom install a Solaris server.
• Use the Solaris device naming conventions.
• Use the format Utility to display partition information.
• Change system run levels.
• Add startup files for customized services.
• Install and remove software packages.
• Add peripheral devices such as terminals and modems.
• Administer disks and file systems.
• Configure the NFS.
• Use the automounter.
• Add and remove diskless clients.
• Backup and restore file systems.
• Perform basic recovery and troubleshooting procedures.
• Use scripts to configure and administer the NIS+ environment.

Prerequisites:

Students should be able to use OpenWindows, edit files with either vi or the text editor, use fundamental UNIX commands, and have had three months or more experience with a Solaris system.

Course Outline:

• Chapter 1: Introduction To UNIX
  1. The history of UNIX
  2. Kernel
  3. Shell
  4. File System
  5. The network
  6. Distributed processing
• Chapter 2: Client/Server Model
  1. Time sharing vs. Central vs. Distributed
  2. Configurations
• Chapter 3: Installing The Operating System
  1. Introduction
  2. Client/Server relationship
  3. Solaris Installation Options
  4. Hardware Requirements
  5. Installation
  6. Booting with the CD-ROM
  7. Configuring the workstation
  8. File Systems
  9. The final states
  10. The root password
• Chapter 4: The Boot Process
  1. SPARC bootstrap procedure
  2. /sbin/init Process
  3. Run control scripts
  4. The start files
  5. The kill files
  6. Adding a new run control file
  7. Disabling a run control file
• Chapter 5: Changing Run Levels
  1. Changing run levels
  2. shutdown command
  3. init command
  4. halt command
  5. reboot command
• Chapter 6: Reconfiguring The Kernel
  1. The kernel
  2. /kernel directory
  3. /platform directory
  4. /usr/kernel directory
  5. /etc/system file
  6. Kernel parameters
• Chapter 7: Device Configuration And Naming
  1. About device drivers
  2. physical device names
  3. logical device names
  4. instance device names
  5. dmesg Command
  6. format Command
  7. prtconf Command
• Chapter 8: Configuring A Local File System
  1. Disk terminology
  2. Disk slices
  3. format Utility
  4. partition menu
  5. Viewing the VTOC
  6. mounting a file system
• Chapter 9: Configuring A Network File System
  1. About NFS
  2. NFS Server tasks
  3. sharing and unsharing the file system
  4. NFS Server daemons
  5. NFS Client tasks
  6. mounting and unmounting
  7. NFS Client daemons
• Chapter 10: Configuring The Automounter
  1. The Automounter
  2. The automount command
  3. The autofs filesystem
  4. The automountd daemon
  5. Master map
  6. Direct map
  7. Indirect map
• Chapter 11: Volume Manager
  1. Volume Management
  2. Access to diskettes
  3. Access to CDs
  4. The vold daemon
  5. The /etc/vold.conf file
• Chapter 12: Backup And Recovery
  1. Backups
  2. The ufsdump command
  3. Incremental backups
  4. The ufsrestore command
  5. Other archiving commands
• Chapter 13: Software Administration
  1. Software administration
  2. How is a package added?
  3. Verification of a package
  4. How to remove a package
  5. Admintool
• Chapter 14: Device Administration
  1. Peripherals
  2. Adding a new device
  3. Serial ports
  4. DTE and DCE
  5. Hard and soft carrier
  6. Modems
• Chapter 15: The Service Access Facility
  1. Services and SAF
  2. Serial port managers
  3. Setting up terminals with admintool
  4. Setting up terminals with Solstice AdminSuite
  5. The sacadm command
  6. The ttyadm command
  7. The pmadm command
• Chapter 16: Security
  1. Common sense rules to security
  2. Restricted shells
  3. User status
  4. Restricted root access
  5. The /etc/default/su file
  6. Automated Security Enhancement Tool
  7. ASET security
  8. ASET tasks
  9. ASET reports
  10. ASET master files
  11. The aset command
• Chapter 17: The NIS/NIS+ Environment
  1. The Domain Name Service
  2. What is the Network Information Service
  3. NIS maps
  4. What is NIS?
  5. NIS and NIS+ working together
• Chapter 18: Setting Up Nis
  1. Setting up the NIS root master
  2. Setting up a NIS client
  3. Additional NIS+ commands