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This five day course is being run 13 times between Monday 5th March 2012 and Monday 17th December 2012 in Birmingham, Leeds, London, Manchester,

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Monday 26 March 2012LondonSave £179.50£1,615.50+VAT
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Summary: 

This course will provide delegates with practical experience of configuring various aspects of a system that is using Solaris up to version 10. This course extends the skills a delegate will have gained from attending the Solaris System Administration - Part 1 course. Delegates will cover more specialised tasks such as managing the system log and configuring remote file sharing with NFS.

PreRequisites: 

The delegate should have attended the Solaris System Administration - Part 1 course or have equivalent skills.

Audience: 

This course is aimed at IT staff responsible for administering a networked server in a local area network, running the Solaris operating environment. It will extend their skills beyond basic administration tasks.

Objectives: 

Administering Solaris systems involves many specialised tasks including; monitoring system events with syslog, performing network installations, dealing with various aspects of the network environment and assigning system roles to users. Delegates taking this class will gain the necessary knowledge and skills to perform these tasks.

DAY 1

Introduction

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

Session 1 Configuring the Solaris management console (SMC)

  • SMC Toolboxes
  • Managing Toolboxes
  • Creating a Toolbox
  • Creating a Folder
  • Assigning Tools to a Folder
  • Accessing a new Toolbox

Session 2 Networking Basics

  • Network Addressing (IPv4)
  • Address Classes
  • Network Masks
  • Subnets
  • Routing
  • Network Files
  • Listing and configuring network devices with ifconfig
  • Monitoring network device activity with netstat
  • Testing a network device with ping
  • Solaris Client – Server Environment
  • Servers
  • Overview of NFS (Network File System)
  • Overview of Naming Services Available Under Solaris
  • Clients

Session 3 Naming services

  • DNS Overview
  • DNS Client Setup
  • NIS
  • NIS Servers and Clients
  • Setting up NIS Servers and Clients
  • NIS+ Overview
  • LDAP Overview and Setting up an LDAP Client
  • The Name Service Switch Configuration Files
  • Template nsswitch Files
  • Displaying Information From the Name Server
  • Name Service Cache Daemon
  • Reference for Naming Services

DAY 2

Session 4 NFS/CACHE FS

  • Network File System (NFS)
  • NFS Terminology
  • NFS Server
  • NFS Client
  • NFS Server Configuration
  • /etc/dfs/dfstab File
  • NFS Server Configuration – SMC
  • Other NFS Commands
  • NFS Client Configuration
  • The mount Command
  • Mounting a Local Resource
  • Mounting a Remote Resource
  • Responding to server failure – mount options
  • Multiple Hosts
  • Unmounting a Resource
  • NFS Client Configuration – SMC
  • Troubleshooting NFS
  • Cache File System (Cachefs)
  • Cachefs Terminology
  • Creating a Cache File System
  • Cachefs Statistics and Consistency
  • Cachefs Logging
  • Removing Cache File System

Session 5 Automount

  • Automount
  • Automount Utility
  • Automount Maps
  • Registering Changes for Automount
  • automount –v

Session 6 Solaris Volume Manager (SMV)

  • Disk Management and File System Review
  • RAID Technology and Volumes
  • RAID Modes
  • SVM Tools
  • Volume Management Operations
  • State Database Replicas
  • Creating State Database Replicas
  • Creating a Disk Concatenation
  • SVM Commands and Files
  • Creating State Database Replicas – the metadb command
  • metadevices
  • metstat command
  • Creating a Concatenation of two disk slices
  • Creating and Managing Mirrors
  • Creating File Systems on Volumes
  • Deleting a Metadevice
  • Dynamically Growing Existing File Systems

DAY 3

Session 7 Managing Swap Space

  • Swap Space
  • Configuring Swap Space
  • Adding a Swap File on an Existing File System
  • Deleting Swap Space

Session 8 Jumpstart

  • Interactive Installation Review
  • Automatic Installation
  • Principles of JumpStart
  • Server Setup for JumpStart
  • Configuring NIS to Support JumpStart
  • Locale
  • Ethernet Address
  • IP Address and Hostname
  • TimeZone
  • Netmasks
  • Bootparams
  • Timehost Alias
  • Configuring Non NIS Server for JumpStart
  • Configuration Directory
  • Rules File
  • Class File
  • Check Utility
  • Install/Boot Server Installation
  • setup_install_server Utility
  • add_install_client Utility
  • To Install New Client

DAY 4

Session 9 Managing Flash Archives

  • Flash Archive Definition
  • Creating a Flash Archive
  • Restoring a Flash Archive
  • Specifying the Location of the Flash Archive to be Restored
  • Jumpstart Installation Considerations
  • Displaying Flash Archive Information

Session 10 Dump File Configuration

  • Dump File Definition
  • System Crash Dumps
  • Displaying the System Crash Dump Configuration
  • Modifying the System Crash Dump Configuration
  • Core Dumps
  • Displaying the Core Dump Configuration
  • Modifying the Core Dump Configuration

Session 11 Syslog

  • syslog Configuration
  • The /etc/syslog.conf Configuration File
  • Facility
  • Security Level
  • Action
  • The M4 Utility
  • Editing the syslog.conf File
  • Logging Telnet, FTP and other Networking Daemon
  • The SMC Log Viewer
  • Testing syslogd Logging

Session 12 File Security With Access Control Lists (ACLs)

  • Setting up Access Control Lists (ACLS)
  • Setting ACL File Permissions
  • The setfacl Command
  • Listing ACLS
  • The getfacl Command

DAY 5

Session 13 Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

  • Traditional Unix Security vs RBAC
  • The RBAC Security Model
  • Main Attributes and Associated Files
  • Linking Attributes and their Files together
  • Attribute File Formats
  • Configuring RBAC Examples
  • Using SMC in the RBAC Environment

Session 14 Zones

  • Basic Description
  • Main Features and Benefits
  • Zone Configuration Settings and Characteristics
  • Creating Zones
  • User Access to Zones
  • Managing the Zone State
  • Zone System Processes
  • Conclusion Course summary
  • Course assessment

Description: 

This course will provide delegates with practical experience of configuring various aspects of a system that is using Solaris up to version 10. This course extends the skills a delegate will have gained from attending the Solaris System Administration - Part 1 course..

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