Solaris System Administration - Part 1

AUDIENCE: Experienced support staff or users who have some hands on experience with a UNIX based system, or who have used another type of system and have attended suitable pre-training, such as our UNIX The Essentials course. The course is a pre-requisite to the Solaris System Administration Part 2 course.
PREREQUISITES: Attendees should have a good basic understanding of UNIX, ideally gained through our UNIX The Essentials course, and preferably some practical experience in the workplace. Knowledge of a standard UNIX editor (e.g. vi) will be required.
DURATION: 4 days. Hands on.
OBJECTIVES: The Solaris System Administration Part 1 course is for users who have an understanding of UNIX and require to administer a Solaris based workstation or PC. The delegate will learn how to install Solaris, add users, create and maintain filesystems, add additional packages and patches, manage the Service Management Facility and perform backup and recovery.

On completion of the course, delegates will have covered all topics essential for the Sun Certified Solaris Administrator Part 1 exam.
COURSE CONTENT:
· Installing Solaris
Requirements; partition sizing; system ID; software groups,
· The Solaris Filesystems
Device drivers; filesystem types; disc slices; the UNIX filesystem; mounting & checking filesystems.
· The format and fdisk Utility
Creating disc slices; label discs
· The OpenBoot PROM & GRUB
OBP environment; NVRAM; OBP configuration; GRUB environment
· User and Group Accounts
User & group management; Solaris Management Console; shell files.
· System Security
System & file access; user audit; network security; superuser access
· Start-up and Shutdown
Run states, milestones, init process; run control scripts; service management facility, boot up & shutdown
· Software Package Administration
pkgadd, pkgrm pkgtrans & pkginfo commands; web start; package spooling.
· Patch management
Sunsolve; installing patches; patch clusters; patchadd & patchrm commands
· The Solaris 10 Print Service
Adding local; remote & network printers; print directories; managing print services
· Process control
The ps, pgrep, kill, pkill & prstat commands; using cron & at processes
· Backup and recovery
Tape devices; ufsdump & ufsrestore; system recovery; the fssnap utility