Solaris 10 Systems Administration Part 1
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In Nottingham and London
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This five-day course is designed to cover the essential administration tasks confronting today's Sun systems administrators. It covers all basic workstation administration functions, with full hands-on experience at all stages.
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Subjects
- Systems
- IT
- Solaris
- Systems Administration
Course programme
For administrators requiring networking and advanced skills, this course should be followed by the Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 2) course.
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- Solaris Desktops
- Solaris Desktop Administration Tools
- Main Features and Usage of SMC
- Openboot interface
- Openboot parameters
- Device names and aliases
- Openboot diagnostics
- Boot Options
- Boot Device Sequence with BIOS
- Booting with GRUB
- Exercise: Setting Openboot parameters and Boot options
- Boot Phases
- init
- System run levels
- inittab file
- Run control scripts
- 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
- Exercise: Creating a run control script
- 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
- Exercise: Listing and Managing the State of Services
- 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
- Exercise: Installing a Solaris System (possibly, optional at the end of the course)
- Documentation Packages
- Configuration clusters
- Tools for managing software
- Displaying current software package information
- Checking the installation of a package
- Adding software packages using a CDROM device
- Removing software packages
- Package logfiles
- Exercise: Removing, adding and listing a Package
- Maintenance of patches and patch clusters
- Verification of currently installed patches
- Installing a patch on the system
- Removing a patch from the system
- Patch logfiles
- Exercise: Installing and listing a Patch
- Sun Connection Services Overview
- The smpatch command
- The Update Manager
- Displaying disk information
- Partitions/Slices
- Naming conventions
- Physical device names
- Instance name
- Logical device names
- Block and character devices
- Configuring new disk devices
- Partitioning the disk with the format command and Solaris
- Management Console
- Making a new partition
- Exercise: Configuring and listing a disk slice
- Disk based file systems
- Main root sub-directories
- Pseudo file systems
- 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 CDs and floppies (Volume Management)
- Checking free disk space
- The df command
- The quot command
- The du command
- Freeing disk space
- Freeing up disk space with compression utilities
- Rotating files with logadm
- Exercise: Managing file systems, newfs, mount etc.
- ZFS - A Basic Description
- Requirements
- Main Features
- ZFS Tools
- Managing ZFS Pools with zpool
- Pool Storage Devices
- Pool Configuration Features
- Creating and Deleting ('Destroying Pools')
- Managing File Systems with ZFS
- Creating and Destroying a File System
- Snapshots and Clones
- ZFS Properties
- Read-Only Native Properties
- Settable Native Properties
- ZFS GUI Interface
- Exercise: Creating and managing a ZFS system
- ACLs (Access Control Lists)
- The setfacl command
- The getfacl command
- The ACL mask
- Exercise: Setting and Viewing ACLs
- User accounts
- Files used in creating a user - the passwd, group and shadow files
- Adding a user
- Changing user details
- Deleting a user
- 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
- Exercise: Creating and listing users and groups
- Backup overview
- Backup policy
- Backup and restore utilities overview
- Tape device names
- The mt utility - retentsion, rewind, space forward or backward and status
- The ufsdump and ufsrestore utilities
- ufs snapshots
- Exercise: Backing up and restoring /export/home
- 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
- Exercise: Configuring and managing printer queues
- 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
- Exercise:
- Monitoring and managing processes
- Setting up cron batch files
Solaris 10 Systems Administration Part 1