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S2A2

Solaris 10 Systems Administration Part 2 - Networking Administration Essentials

This two-day course is designed to cover the essential network administration tasks confronting today's Sun network systems administrators, and is an extension to our Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 1) course which covers all the non-network issues.This course covers networking from initial connection through basic commands, security, monitoring and up to Network File System (NFS) and the Network Information Service (NIS), with full hands-on experience at all stages. The use of the Solaris Management Console tool is included. This course, combined with the Solaris 10 Advanced Administration course, is comparable with the Sun SA-202-S10 (now PK-SA-202A-S10) course and leads to the Solaris Certified Administrator (Part 2) exam. Compared by price, our combined courses are 41% less than Sun's. A further Solaris Network Administration course is also avaiulable for those requiring training to Solaris Certified Network Administrator level.

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OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE

Takes trainees who have completed the Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 1) course and adds network administration knowledge to their portfolio.

COURSE CODE S2A2 TUTORS
Mick Hosegood email
DURATION 2 days VENUE Harwell (H), Newark (N) and London(L) Training Centres **
PRICE £550 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:

June 2008
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Oct
Nov
Dec
January 2009
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30(H)


15 (N)
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1 (H)
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9 (N)
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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.

PREREQUISITES: Knowledge of Solaris up to a level taught in our Introduction to Solaris and Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 1) courses is important. Please call if you require any advice.

FOLLOW UPS: Solaris 10 Advanced System Administration (S2ASA), a three-day course covering a wide variety of advanced administration topics.

This course is part of a program which can lead you to Solaris Certification Combining this course with the Solaris 10 Advanced System Administration prepares you for the Solaris Certified Administrator Part 2 exam.

PRACTICALS / TAKEAWAYS: Each student leaves the course with his 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.

SOFTWARE VERSIONS: This course is based on Solaris 2.10 (Solaris 10, Update 3). It is also suitable for customers using Solaris 9, 8 and Solaris 7.

 

TOPICS COVERED ON THE COURSE

Introduction to Ethernet and Networking
Overview. Simplest Ethernet. Ethernet options. The ISO/OSI 7 layer model.

The IP network.
IP addresses, sockets and ports, multicast addresses. Hardware requirements/options. Twisted pair & fibre optic. Facts and Figures. Troubleshooting.

Network Configuration
Client/server concepts, processes and control. Configuring a machines IPv4 interfaces manually for network connection, with many ifconfig examples. Understanding Internet Address classes and CIDR, and formulating Internet addresses. Configuring logical interfaces. Multipathing configuration and operation (Failover and load spreading). Internetwork Router basic configuration. Examples of route commands for manual routing, and persistent routes. Using routeadm to enable/disable routing daemons. Subnets and netmasks. Network basic commands and the associated security files. Using Secure Shell (ssh)Running GUI programs using X-Windows facilities. Network daemons. Inetd.and SMF. The inetadm and inetconv commands. TCP wrappers. Network Monitoring utilities (snoop, netstat, traceroute, nmap, ethereal, etc)

Network File System (NFS) and AutoFS
Overview. Benefits and uses of NFS. NFS Installation. NFS Administration. Sharing file systems. The mount command. NFS security. NFS logging. NFS strategies. Introduction and basic use of the automounter (AutoFS). Using SMC with NFS. NFSV4 features.

SAMBA Server Overview
A brief overview of this powerful and impressive free open-source server now included with Solaris 10, which effectively turns a Solaris machine (or other UNIX/Linux machine) into a Windows NT server. A working SAMBA installation will be created, with graphical configuration using swat via a web browser.

Overview of Solaris name services
NIS. NIS+, LDAP and DNS - how they work, advantages and disadvantages of each. The Name Service Switch and /etc/nsswitch.conf. The Name Service Cache Daemon (nscd).

Network Information Service (NIS)
Introduction. Creating a fully-functioning NIS service. Using the ypinit command to create Master and Slave servers. Updating the NIS information from the command line. Using SMC with NIS to manage users, groups and hosts. Adding NIS clients. NIS file policies. Creating and using netgroups with /etc/netgroup. Adding your own data to NIS. Modifying the NIS Makefile. Disabling NIS.

DNS and LDAP clients
Configuring clients to use DNS and LDAP name services.

Introduction to the Apache web server
Major Components. Browser invocation and configuration. Apache Web Server installation and activation. Installing a custom web site. Enabling the Jakarta Tomcat java facility. Examples of common Apache configuration directives.

Setting up Electronic Mail
Overview. How to use mail. Mail routing. Files and programs involved. Setting up mail - local network. Name Service considerations. Using NFS to mount mail boxes. Testing mail delivery. Mail aliases. External links and connecting to the Internet.

Note:- Several additional topics are covered on this course compared to Sun's, such as Samba, Apache, routing and Email.
 

SPECIAL SAVINGS FOR MULTIPLE AND PACKAGE BOOKINGS

Multiple Bookings
If you book more than one place on our courses on the same order, you are entitled to a 10% discount.

Package Bookings
Further discounts are available for certain packages of courses.

The complete package is available for £2400 for the 12 days of training (individually taken, the price would be £3100)

The complete package is available for £2665 for the 13 days of training (individually taken, the price would be £3425)

The complete package is available for £3150 for the 15 days of training (individually taken, the price would be £3925)

The complete package is available for £3225 for the 15 days of training (individually taken, the price would be £4075)

The complete package is available for £4100 for the 20 days of training (individually taken, the price would be £5325)


 
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