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Audience

This course is aimed at IT staff responsible for performing essential system administration procedures in the Solaris operating environment.

Delegates should be familiar with using Unix shell commands and the vi editor. Knowledge of shell programming would be beneficial though not essential.

Objectives

The delegates will practise:-
Local System Administration with Solaris Management Console (SMC)
Configuring the Openboot Firmware
Startup and Shutdown Procedures
Managing Services with the Service Management Facility (SMF)
Installing the Solaris Operating system
Software Package Administration
Maintenance Of Patches
Disk Management and Partitioning
File System Management
System Security and File Permissions
User and Group Management
Managing Login Files
Backup And Recovery
Managing the Print Environment
Managing Processes

Outline

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