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  Solaris for Experienced Unix Administrators

Course Duration

5 days

Course Overview

The Solaris for Experienced UNIX Administrators course is designed for existing experienced UNIX administrators who require to administer a Solaris based system. The delegate will build on their existing UNIX knowledge and learn how to install Solaris, administer & setup NFS DNS & NIS, configure disc devices & Solaris Volume Manager and configure a Jumpstart and Flash install server.

Who should attend

System administrators who have had experience of one or more of the many UNIX variations, including HP-UX, AIX, & Linux. Delegates with no UNIX experience will not be offered a place on this course.

Course Topics

  The OpenBoot PROM

OBP environment; NVRAM; OBP

  Installing Solaris

Requirements; partition sizing; system ID; software groups,

  System start-up and shutdown

Boot phases, kernel initialisation, Service Management Facility, run states, shutdown

  Software Package Administration

pkgadd, pkgrm & pkginfo commands; web start; package spooling.

  Patch management

Sunsolve; installing patches; patch clusters; patchadd & patchrm

  The format Utility

Creating disc slices; labeling discs

  Virtual Filesystems

Sizing, setting up & monitoring swap; core file & crash dump configuration

  Managing Storage Volumes

RAID;Solaris volume management; planning SVM; Metadisks

  Solaris Management Console

SMC, smuser

  Role Based Access Control

RBAC, Least Privilege Facility

  Network File System

Servers & clients; setting up NFS, mounting remote file systems; NFS server logging

  AutoFS & CacheFS

AutoFS direct & indirect maps; AutoFS & home directories; cacheFS configuration

  Zones

Configuring, installing, booting, mananging resources, shutting down, deleting

  Name Service Overview

NIS; NIS+; DNS; LDAP; Configuring DNS Client

  Network Information Services

NIS network structure; NIS master server; NIS slave servers; NIS clients; NIS maps

  Backup and recovery

Tape devices; ufsdump & ufsrestore; system recovery; the fssnap utility

  Custom JumpStart

server configuration; rules file; begin & finish scripts; class files; sysidcfg file.

  Flash Install

Creating flash archive; Using WebStart to install from flash archive

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