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Solaris System Administration

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The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the administrative aspects of the Solaris operating system. At the end of the course delegates will have the skills required to administer a Solaris system, including user management, disk management, backing up procedures, startup and shutdown procedures, and process manag...

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Type Course Duration 4 Days
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Course objectives The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the administrative aspects of the Solaris operating system. At the end of the course delegates will have the skills required to administer a Solaris system, including user management, disk management, backing up procedures, startup and shutdown procedures, and process manag...
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Delegates should be competent in the skills covered by the PTR Unix Fundamentals and PTR Shell Programming courses.
Price £1,350 + VAT
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Solaris System Administration
Course objectives:
The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the administrative aspects of the Solaris operating system. At the end of the course delegates will have the skills required to administer a Solaris system, including user management, disk management, backing up procedures, startup and shutdown procedures, and process management. This course also prepares delegates for the Sun Certfifed Administrator For Solaris 8 Operating Environment, Part I Exam.

Course content:
Solaris Installation Process

Software & Patch Administration
  • Adding software packages with pkgadd
  • Rremoving software packages with pkgrm
  • Patches
    Solaris System Administration
  • A few simple rules
  • Where to get help
  • Graphical Administration with admintool
    Starting Up & Shutting Down
  • The Solaris boot process
  • Power on
  • Kernel processes
  • Solaris run levels
  • Initialisation process
  • Booting to single user mode
  • Run control directories, Run control scripts
  • Changing run levels, Customising run levels
  • BootPROM, BootPROM commands
  • NVRAM parameters
    User Management
  • /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group
  • Useradd
  • groupadd
  • The users home
  • Checking passwd and group files
  • The shells
  • Customising user environments-initialisation scripts
  • Default initialisation scripts
  • Passwords
  • Removing users
    System Security
  • Password Ageing
  • Login control with /etc/default/login
  • Switching users with su
  • Standard file & directory permissions
  • Special permissions
    Process Management
  • Processes overview
  • Killing application processes
  • Process scheduling
  • Changing process priorities
  • Multi-processor systems
    Disk Management
  • Disk label, disk geometry, disk layout
  • Partitioning with format
  • Device files
  • Logical device names
  • RAID
  • Physical device names
  • Kernel instance names
  • Rebuilding device names
  • Solaris file systems
  • The ufs filesystem
  • I-nodes
  • Creating a file system with newfs
  • Mounting a filesystems, Unmounting a file system
  • Mounting at boot time
  • File system corruption
  • File system checking with fsck
  • CDROM file systems, NFS file systems, RAM based file systems
  • Swap management, swap devices
  • Virtual swap
    Backing Up
  • Why backup?
  • Backup media, Backup types
  • Backing Up with tar
  • Image copying with dd
  • Backing up with cpio, Backing up with ufsdump
    Solaris Printing
  • User commands
  • The scheduler
  • Adding a local printer
  • The print queue
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    PTR specialises in technical training, particularly in the areas of data communications & networking, internet/intranet, operating systems, programming languages and relational databases. Company specific courses are available for organisations that have several employees who all need training at the same time or who have a requirement for a tailored course. Closed courses typically provide cost benefits when there are at least four employees who need training simultaneously. Courses can be run at PTR's Training Centre or on-site if suitable facilities exist. Benefit from substantial discounts on technical training with our SAVE IT Scheme. If you, or your organisation has a training requirement of 10+ days then our Save IT Scheme may provide additional savings on your training.
    Advantages of studying with PTR Associates Ltd
    Vendor-independent & Generic Training - unbiased independent knowledge Small Class Sizes - increased interaction with lecturer Hands-on - increased learning efficiency Training Environment - modern, air-conditioned classrooms Course Notes - up-to-date, plain English, excellent reference material Training Experience - friendly, personal service
    Refreshments - morning and afternoon breaks with lunch arrangements second to none, at one of the many local restuarants ROI - our prices and quality mean an excellent Return on Investment   Lecturer Expertise - vendor certified with real-world product experience
    Course provider history
    PTR Associates Ltd was established in 1989.
    Specialises in
    Applications Programming Databases Operating Systems Data Communications and Networking Internet Scripting

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