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Solaris 10 System Administration Part 1 -
Administration Essentials
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.
The course is run using SPARC systems, with a fully detailed Intel
system supplement provided. (See topic list below) The Solaris 10
Visual Administration Solaris Management Console (SMC) is also covered.
For administrators requiring networking and advanced skills, this
course should be followed by the Solaris
10 System Administration
(Part 2) course (S2A2). Network administration is
covered on our Solaris Network Administration
course (S2NA). This course provides training
to a level needed for the Solaris Certified System Administrator (SCSA)
exam CX-310-200 part 1; for full details of the Solaris certifications,
click here: Solaris
Certification.
This course is comparable with the SUN SA-200-S10
System Administration for the
Solaris 10 Operating System Part 1 course (formerly
Intermediate Solaris 10 Systems Administration), but about 33% less in
cost.
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OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
To attain a level of competence performing
Solaris administration tasks to that defined in the Solaris 10
Certified
Administrator Part 1 exam. This involves mainly essential local
administration tasks.
| COURSE CODE |
S2A1 |
TUTORS |
Mick
Hosegood email
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| DURATION |
5 days |
VENUE |
Harwell (H), Newark (N) and London(L) Training Centres** |
| PRICE |
£1300 plus
VAT * |
BOOKING CONTACT |
Mick
Hosegood email |
| EXPERIENCE LEVEL |
Intermediate |
TECHNICAL CONTACT |
Mick
Hosegood email |
*see note at bottom for special savings!
for pricing for a course run especially for your organisation, please
use our worksheet **Also available on your site for groups of four to
ten.
COURSE DATES:
Mar 2010
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INTENSITY: About 30% of the course is
practicals, and 70% lectures.
RESOURCE: Each student will have
exclusive use of a Sun workstation for the duration of the course. Each
student will be provided with a full set of training notes relating to
the course, and quick reference cards to assist with file editing and
Unix commands
Tape drives are provided for each student
for use during backup and restore exercises.
PREREQUISITES: Knowledge of Solaris
up to a level taught in our Introduction
to Solaris (SI) course is important, and some previous
administration experience is helpful. Please call if you require any
advice.
FOLLOW UPS: Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 2) (S2A2),
which covers basic networking and advanced administration, the
equivalent of Sun's
SA-202-S10 course, which leads to the Sun
Certified Administrator (part 2)
exam.
Our Solaris Utilities and Shell
Programming (Solaris for Users/Administrators) (SA) is another
popular course for administrators wishing to gain knowledge of shell
programming and Solaris utilities, with special emphasis on the needs
of
the administrator.
This course is part of a program which can
lead you to Solaris
Certification
Two further courses which will be of interest are as follows:-
Solaris Network Administration, a
5-day course leading to the Solaris Certified Network Administrator
CX-310-302 exam, and...
Solaris Live Upgrade Workshop, a
one-day course covering this powerful upgrading and patching facility.
PRACTICALS / TAKEAWAYS: Each student
leaves the course with their own set of training notes for the material
covered; around 120 pages per day of training.
| Every student who attends this course
will be issued with a signed certificate of course completion, which we
will be happy to "authenticate" upon future request. |
| On this course, we hand out a number
of quick reference sheets to each student on subjects such as vi and
Unix commands. |
SOFTWARE VERSIONS: This course is
based on Solaris 10 (Solaris 2.10, SunOS 5.10). It is also suitable for
customers using Solaris 8, 7, and 2.6. The course is run using SPARC
systems, and a fully detailed Intel supplement to the notes is provided.
This course is not suitable for other
versions of Unix.
TOPICS COVERED ON THE COURSE
System Administration Overview
- Review of administration functions.
- The administrator account.
- Administartion best practices.
File System Structure
- File system structure and slicing.
- The Solaris directory hierarchy;
identification of files and file types; using symbolic and hard links.
Disk Storage Management for local
disk
drives.
- Disk concepts and
structure; slices (partitions) and Solaris device
naming conventions.
- Physical disk
connection. listing and reconfiguring
the systems devices.
- How devices are named,
and how device information is created.
- Slicing and labelling
disks with the format and
fmthard
utilities
and the Solaris Management Console (smc).
- Creating a Solaris file
system
with newfs. Using tunefs to change file system parameters.
- Using
multi-terabyte file systems.
- Deciding how
to mount the new file system; updating
/etc/vfstab for permanent mounts.
- Using fsck to perform
file system
integrity checks.
- Monitoring disk usage
and directory sizes.
- Using removeable (USB
and firewire). The rmformat command.
The
ZFS
File System
- Introduction and Simple Example
- Storage Pool Basics
- - Mirrors, RAIDZ and RAIDZ2
- - Mount points, examining pool status
- - Extending pools; extending pools with attach
- - Offlining and replacing components
- - Hot Spares (Update 3 only)
- - Informational commands
- - Command History
- - Exporting and Importing
- ZFS GUI
- ZFS File systems (datasets) in detail
- - Creating, Deleting and Renaming.
- - Properties
- - Properties - read-only and settable.
- - Properties - Setting a quota example
- - Properties - inheriting example
- - Properties - Sources
- - Properties - Query Examples
- - Mounting/Unmounting
- - Quotas and reservations
- - Setting properties when creating
- - Snapshots and Clones
- - Backup and Restore
- - Replicating Directories Remotely
- - Emulated Volumes
- - ZFS and Zones
- - Data recovery; troubleshooting
- - Scrubbing
- - Troubleshooting disk problems.
File System Maintenance and Security
- The mount command. Mount options.
- The LOFS file systems.
- Handling CDs, DVDs and floppy disks. USB and
Firewire devices.
- Making
room on
the file system.
- File
system security. SMC file system functions.
- Utilities for file system
monitoring.
System Build (Installing Solaris)
- Planning disk layout. Booting from CD,
DVD or network to build.
- Building Solaris from scratch;
selecting software options, disk
slicing,
etc.
- Ensuring Secure by Default settings are
understood and used.
- Post-installation procedures.
- Overview of automatic installation.
- Upgrading from a previous Solaris
release.
- ZFS as the root file system.
Patch Administration
- Obtaining and installing the latest patches,
including clusters and
individual patches.
- Examining the current patch level of a
machine.
- Removing patches.
- Using the smpatch utility and Sun Connection
for
automatic updates and patches.
- Patches and Solaris zones.
Software Configuration and Package
Administration
- Root user environment configuration including
shells and manual pages.
- Examining,
Installing and removing software packages.
- Using command line utilities
(pkgadd, pkginfo, pkgchk, pkgrm)
- Identifying package directory and datastream
format, and converting formats
- Adding Solaris distribution options.
- Creating package response files for
non-interactive package installs.
- Using the Webstart installer
mechanism to install software.
- Using the Solaris Product Registry.
(prodreg)
- Packages and Solaris Zones.
Network Interface Configuration
- Adding a machine to the network - Procedure,
/etc/inet/hosts.
- Internet Address Classes (Ipv4) - Reference
Notes, Multicast, obtaining your own address.
- Examining the interface settings with ifconfig.
- Using ifconfig to change settings.
- DHCP Address Configuration; the
/etc/dhcp.interface file, client Hostname configuration.
- ifconfig dhcp options.
- Adding a machine to the network - actual
connection and testing.
Boot PROM
- Monitor prompt commands (boot, probe-scsi,
probe-ide, test-net,
devalias etc.)
- Identifying system settings such as the
default boot
device, device aliases, etc.
- Setting up a device alias.
- Using the eeprom command to view and change
settings.
- Using luxadm with FCAL disks.
- Troubleshooting boot failure.
Start-up and Shutdown
- Boot Archives - the boot_archive and
failsafe files
- Boot Archives - dealing with boot
problems
- Boot Archives - Example bootadm commands
- Loading the kernel - /etc/system
- In-depth explanation of the new Service
Management Facility (SMF).
- Using SMF utilities to monitor and
control boot processes.
- Modifying
SMF properties with svccfg.
- Self healing and Process Contracts.
- SMF
repositories and recovery.
- Adding your
own scripts and SMF service manifests
- SMF
milestones. Understanding
and changing run levels.
- The init process and legacy scripts.
- Shutting down, suspending and powering
off the system.
- Power
management.
Adding and Maintaining Users
- Concepts. Ownership of files, directories and
processes.
- Classes of
user. Adding a user manually, via command line tools and graphically.
- User initialisation file management. Password
control. Account lockout. Password history recording.
- Real and
effective id. Using SMC for user management..
Solaris Groups
- Overview. The group file. Group identification
of files and
directories.
- The groupadd, groupmod, newgrp, groups and
chgrp commands.
- Complete practical example of
creating and using a group.
- Using SMC with groups.
System Security
- Monitoring access to the system.
- Using the su (Switch User) command,
and monitoring its use.
- Restricting file and directory access using
protection mechanisms, including access modes, s and t bits, umask,
chown and chmod.
- Introduction to Access Control Lists (ACLs).
Adding a Printer
- PostScript Printers.
- Physical direct connection of a printer.
- Using a Network connected printer. Physical
connection to a Network - configuring RARP.
- Configuring the Spooling System.
- Adding a Printer with lpadmin to a physical
port.
- Using lpadmin to change configuration details.
- Adding a printer with Solaris Printer Manager.
- Adding a connection to a printer on another
system.
- Adding a network-connected printer. Protocols
used. Further examples. lpset and printers.conf.
- Printer Types - terminfo.
- PPD files; adding a printer using PPD files
with lpadmin.
- Using ppdmgr to manage PPD files.
- Printer filters - background information
(reference purposes).
- Issuing print requests with lp.
- The lpsched printer daemon and the
ipp-listener.
- Routine Printer Administration - Status.
Cancelling print requests. Accept and reject, enable and disable.
- Troubleshooting. Directory Structure.
- Changing print requests.
- Removing a printer.
- Log Files.
- Printer Classes.
- User Access Lists.
- Printers, the Name Service and user
preferences.
System Processes
- Examining and controlling processes using ps,
prstat, kill, pgrep, pkill and the
Process
Manager.
- Automating commands with crontab and at, for
one-off and
regular command execution.
Back-Up and Restore Utilities,
including
snapshots
- Overview and Preparation. Tape types and
capacities.
- Sample ufsdump
commands. Backup strategies.
- Taking a complete backup with ufsdump
- Summary of ufsdump command options.
- Using fssnap to snapshot the file
system and take a clean backup.
- Restoring individual files and
directories. Restoring an entire system.
- Considerations for disaster
recovery.
- The tar, cpio and mt utilities.
- Backups versus archives.
Intel
supplement
This supplement to the notes covers Intel differences
and extra
features in full detail. It covers:-
- Architecture differences, Solaris
Installation Differences, Solaris Installation Check Tool and Device
Detection Tool.
- Installing Solaris in Interactive mode.
- Disk Device
naming, Disk Utilities for x86, Adding a new disk (Creating an fdisk
partition, creating Solaris slices, Adding a system disk).
- GRUB-based booting (Single-User boot, the
bootadm utility.
- Boot
archives, Boot archives failsafe, Kernel loading and bootenv.rc).
- System recovery (Example system disk
partitioning, newfs and
ufsrestore, installing the bootstrap).
- x86 device drivers and
configuration, PCI device identification.
- Window system configuration
(Xorg, Xsun, gdm).
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