Book your SOLARIS System Administration Part 1 Training Course

DAY 1

Introduction

• Administration and course materials
• Course structure and agenda
• Delegate and trainer introductions

Session 1 System Administration With SMC

• Overview of System Administration GUI Tools
• Main Features and Usage

Session 2 Openboot

• Openboot interface
• Openboot parameters
• Device names and aliases
• Openboot diagnostics
• Boot Options

Session 3 Startup and Shutdown Procedures

• Boot Phases
• init
• System run levels
• inittab file
• Run control scripts
• Start and stop process for run level 2
• Run control script summary
• Adding a run control script
• Disabling a run control script
• System shutdown
• The shutdown command
• The init command
• The halt/poweroff commands
• The reboot command
• The stop-a command

Session 4 Service Management Facility

• Basic Features
• The SMF Environment
• SMF and Booting
• SMF Environmental Structures
• Service States
• Managing Services
• Listing Services with svcs and inetadm
• Managing the State of a Service with svcadm
• Configuring a Service with svccfg
• Managing the State of inetd Network Services with inetadm

DAY 2

Session 5 Installing the Solaris Operating System

• Installation requirements
• System configuration for servers and clients
• Partitions and multiple disks
• Software terminology
• Packages, Clusters and Groups
• Configuration cluster
• Definition of Installation methods
• Web Start, Interactive, Jumpstart, Flash & Live Upgrade
• Interactive Installation process
• Installation from CD/DVD

Session 6 Software Package Administration

• Package installation
• Configuration clusters
• Tools for managing software
• Displaying current software package information
• Checking the installation of a package
• Adding software packages using a CDROM device
• Installation of Answerbook documentation packages
• Removing software packages
• Package system logfile

Session 7 Maintenance Of Patches

• Maintenance of patches and patch clusters
• Verification of currently installed patches
• Installing a patch on the system
• Removing a patch from the system
• Exercise: Installing and listing a Patch

Session 8 Disk Management

• Displaying disk information
• Partitions/Slices
• Naming conventions
• Physical device names
• Instance name
• Logical device names
• Block and character devices
• Reconfiguring disk devices
• Partitioning the disk with the format command and
• Solaris Management Console
• Making a new partition

DAY 3

Session 9 File System Management

• Disk based file systems
• Main root sub-directories
• Pseudo file systems
• The swapfs file system
• The fdfs file system
• The cachefs file system
• The tmpfs file system
• The procfs file system
• Components of a ufs file system
• Boot block
• Superblocks
• Inodes
• Data disk blocks
• Ulimit parameter
• File types
• Symbolic and Hard links
• Creating file systems
• The newfs command
• The mount command
• The umount command
• The vfstab file
• The mnttab file
• Filesystem checking
• Determining if a file system needs checking
• Running fsck manually
• The lost+found directories
• Automounting CD’s and floppies (Volume Management)
• Checking free disk space
• The df command
• The du command
• Freeing disk space

Session 10 System Security And File Permissions

• File access criteria
• Users and groups
• The id and groups command
• File permissions
• Default permissions
• Changing file attributes, owner and group (chmod, chown, chgrp)
• Other access considerations
• Switching users – su command
• Tracking the use of su
• Switching groups
• Determining who is logged into a system

DAY 4

Session 11 User Management

• User accounts
• Files used in creating a user - the passwd, group and shadow files
• Adding a user
• Changing user details
• Deleting a user
• The userdel command
• User group maintenance
• Password administration
• Password command
• Local Login control
• Remote Login control
• Login logs
• User communication
• The wall command
• The message of the day
• Controlling the amount of disk space accessible to users using quotas

Session 12 Login Files

• The Bourne and Korn shell environments
• Environment variables
• The System profile
• The User’s .profile
• The Korn shell start up file
• Korn shell options
• Aliases
• Listing environment variables and aliases
• Aliases
• Skeleton directories

Session 13 Backup And Recovery

• Backup overview
• Backup policy
• Backup and restore utilities overview
• Tape device names
• The mt utility – retension, rewind, space forward or backward and status
• The ufsdump & ufsrestore utilities
• ufs snapshots

DAY 5

Session 14 Managing The Print Environment

• The print service
• Print service files
• Hardware setup – ethernet, parallel & serial
• Printer configuration with Solaris Print Manager
• Printer configuration with lpadmin
• Line printer commands – lpshut, lpsched, accept, reject, enable, disable, lpmove lpusers,
• lpstat, lp, cancel
• Printing from copies of files
• Stopping banner output

Session 15 Managing Processes

• Introduction to Process Management
• The ps command
• The prstat command
• The process manager application
• The kill command
• Using the cron processes
• Cron files
• Creating crontab entries
• Amending existing crontab files
• Crontab command options
• The at command

Conclusion

• Course summary
• Course assessment