Solaris System Admininstration Part 2

First Technology Transfer Ltd

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Inhouse

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Methodology

    Inhouse

  • Duration

    5 Days

Extensive workshops throughout the course provide practical experience of system and network installation and configuration in a safe, controlled environment. Exercises include: Automating a Solaris installation. Installing the apache web server from source. Adding packages. Connecting the system to a TCP/IP network. Serving files to Unix and Windows systems. Setting. Suitable for: The course is intended for experienced Solaris users wishing to obtain comprehensive, advanced skills to install and administer Solaris as part of a corporate network environment. The course is appropriate for system administrators, network managers, Solaris consultants, internet service providers, systems and network integrators, second-level help desk support staff, and anyone responsible for the deployment of Linux as part of a corporate infrastructure. Attendees need.

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Course programme

Overview
This course follows on from course LIN620 to provide advanced system and network administration skills for Solaris
The emphasis in this course is more on Enterprise Server Level Administration.

Key Skills
After completing this course you will be able to:
  • Add hardware such as SCSI disks, network adaptors, and modems
  • Install new software from source or from binary packages
  • Be able to automate installation with Jumpstart
  • Install and configure the X window system
  • Establish connectivity to a TCP/IP network
  • Provide network services including sendmail, apache, NFS, and DNS
  • Implement logical volumes and disk mirroring
  • Monitor server and network performance
  • Manage a multi-platform environment
    Practical Work
    Extensive workshops throughout the course provide practical experience of system and network installation and configuration in a safe, controlled environment. Exercises include:
    • Automating a Solaris installation
    • Installing the apache web server from source
    • Adding packages
    • Connecting the system to a TCP/IP network
    • Serving files to Unix and Windows systems
    • Setting up a DNS server
    • Configuring NFS
    • Administering and setting up Network Information Services (NIS, NIS+)

    Course Contents
    Solaris Installation and package management
    • Designing a partitioning scheme
    • Installing Solaris
    • Unpacking, configuring and building software from source "tarballs"
    • Solaris package management
    The X Window System
    • Architecture of the X Window System
    • Setting up and tuning the X server
    • Tuning the X server for the graphics card and monitor
    • Selecting and customising the window manager / desktop environment
    TCP/IP Connectivity
    • Understanding the protocols: TCP, UDP, ICMP, PPP
    • Setting up an IP address, netmask, default route and gateway
    • Configuring dial-out connections with PPP
    • Standard TCP/IP tools: ftp, telnet, ping, nslookup ...
    Networking Services
    • The inetd and xinetd 'super-servers'
    • sendmail without tears
    • Establishing a baseline Apache (web) service
    • Managing NFS and Samba file sharing
    • Configuring host name resolution
    • Providing name resolution with DNS
    Disk management
    • Understanding SCSI and RAID
    • Network attached storage vs. Storage Area Networks
    • Journaling file systems - the Veritas Filesystem
    • Extent based filesystems
    • Snapshot file systems
    • Logical filesystems - advantages and disadvantages
    • quota management
    System monitoring and tuning
    • basic system usage concepts - system time, user time, idle time
    • using vmstat
    • I/O subsystem analysis - using iostat
    • using sar
    • disk balancing
    • network card traffic analysis - using netstat
    • kernel configuration - options and tunable parameters
    Providing services to Windows based PCs
    • SAMBA - and the MS Windows SMB protocol
    • Solaris based POP and IMAP servers - accessed from Outlook
    Overview of Solaris Security
    • access control list based security
    • Kerberos authentication
    • PKI
    • SSH
    • TLS

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