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Solaris 10 System Administration - Part I

Curriculum

Unix

Course Code

SSA1

Duration

5 Day Course

Price

1,995

Course Description
This Solaris System Administration training course will give delegates practical experience in the administration of a a Sun
Microsystem Solaris system up to and including Solaris version 10. Reference will be made to the Solaris commands
required to administer the system as well as using the GUI tools such as admintool and the Solaris Management Console.
The delegate will gain the key skills required to prepare for the Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator Certified Professional
Part I exam (CX-310-200). Together with the Solaris Introduction course, this course is suitable preparation for delegates
intending to sit the Oracle Solaris Certified Associate exam (CX-310-105). Together with the Solaris Administration - Part II
course, this course is also suitable preparation for delegates intending to sit the Oracle Solaris 10 System Administrator
Certified Professional Upgrade exam (CX-310-203).
Please note that exams are not included as part of the course.
The delegates will practise:
Using the Solaris Desktops
Local System Administration with Solaris Management Console (SMC)
Configuring the Openboot Firmware
Managing Boot Procedures with GRUB
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
ZFS
File Security and ACLs
User and Group Management
Accessing Remote Systems
Backup And Recovery
Managing the Print Environment
Managing Processes

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Course Modules
Accessing the Solaris Operating System (3 topics)
Solaris Desktops
Solaris Desktop Administration Tools
Main Features and Usage of SMC

Boot Procedures (8 topics)

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

Startup and Shutdown Procedures (14 topics)

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

Service Managemeent Facility (11 topics)

Basic Features
The SMF Environment
SMF and Booting
SMF Environmental Structures
Service States

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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

Installing the Solaris Operating System (10 topics)

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)

Software Package Administration (9 topics)

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 (6 topics)

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

Connection Services (3 topics)

Sun Connection Services Overview
The smpatch command
The Update Manager

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Disk Management (12 topics)
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

File System Management (30 topics)

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

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Rotating files with logadm
Exercise: Managing file systems, newfs, mount etc.

ZFS (16 topics)

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

File Security and ACLS (5 topics)

ACLs (Access Control Lists)
The setfacl command
The getfacl command
The ACL mask
Exercise: Setting and Viewing ACLs

User Management (16 topics)

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

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Controlling the amount of disk space accessible to users using quotas
Exercise: Creating and listing users and groups

Backup and Recovery (8 topics)

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

Managing the Print Environment (9 topics)

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

Managing Processes (13 topics)

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
Exercise: Setting up cron batch files

Prerequisites
Delegates should be familiar with using Solaris Unix shell commands and the vi editor. Knowledge of shell programming would

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Course Dates
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Location

Duration

Price

SSA1

Edinburgh

5 Days

1,995

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London

5 Days

1,995

Aug

Sep

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Nov

27-31
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