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Solaris 10 Advanced System Administration
This three-day course is designed to cover
the more technically complex and difficult tasks confronting the
Solaris/UNIX system and network administrator. All topics will be
accompanied by extensive hands-on, with a minimum ratio of three
fully-equipped Sun workstations between two students. There will be
ample time to put forward your own topics for discussion and analysis.
This course, combined with the Solaris 10
Systems Administartion Part 2 course, is comparable with Sun's
SA-202-S10 (now PK-SA-202A-S10) course, and leads to
the Solaris Certified Administrator
Part
2 exam. Compared by cost, our combined courses are 34% less than Sun.
This course can be followed by the Solaris
Network Administration course for those who require training to
Solaris Certified Network Administrator level.
Our Solaris courses are suitable training
for Solaris Certification
Select here for related courses |
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OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
To train the administrator of a
workstation to a level suitable for the Solaris Certified Administrator
Part 2 exam.
| COURSE CODE |
S2ASA |
TUTOR |
Mick Hosegood email |
| DURATION |
3 days |
VENUE |
Harwell (H), Newark (N) and London(L) Training
Centres** |
| PRICE |
£825 plus VAT
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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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January 2009
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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
All the training systems will be networked
during the course and intranet server(s) provided in addition to the
student workstations for use during network aspects of the course.
Extra Sun Workstations will be provided so
that the class can build a complex (subnetted) network.
Printer(s) are provided on this course so
that students can learn how to use them, and also take away printed
copies of their work.
PREREQUISITES: Attendees must have
experience of Solaris administration and networking up to the level
taught in the Solaris 10
System Administration (Part 1) and Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 2)
courses.
FOLLOW UPS: There are several course
which would be of further benefit to systems and network
administrators.
If you are writing scripts, our Perl
Programming and / or Solaris
Utilities and Shell Programming (Solaris for Users/Administrators)
course may be of great interest to you, for example. For those involved
in administrating networks, our Solaris 10 Network
Administration course would be ideal, and leads to the Solaris
Certified Network Administrator CX-310-302 exam.
This course is part of a program which can
lead you to Solaris
Certification
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. |
| Students on this course can print out
their work and take it away with them. |
SOFTWARE VERSIONS: This course is
based on Solaris 10 (Solaris 2.10, Update 3). It is also suitable for
customers
using Solaris 7, 8 and 9 .
TOPICS COVERED ON THE COURSE
Solaris Management Console
Installation. Configuration of extra toolboxes for use with multiple
servers using the toolbox editor.
Swap Management and Configuration
Virtual memory. Examining a machine's current swap allocation. Creating
new swap slices and files. Adding swap details to /etc/vfstab
Crash dumps and core files
What are they? How to manage and restrict.
Disk quotas
Enabling quotas. Setting quota limits and time limits; Quota reporting.
Remote server quotas.
Solaris Volume Manager (SVM)and RAID disks
Describe RAID levels. Describe the features of SVM. Implement SVM on a
Solaris system. The metadevice state databases. Creating concatenated
and striped metadevices. Creating and adding mirrors. removing mirrors.
taking mirrors off-line. UFS logging. Hot Spares. Expanding file
systems
with growfs. Summary of files and commands. Using the GUI to perform
SVM
tasks and monitor SVM status.
Role-based Access Control (RBAC)
RBAC facilities. Applying rights and roles to users. Using the GUI smc
to manage RBAC. RBAC files and directories.
X Windows Technology Explained.
X Windows background and constituent parts. X windows and the network.
Adding an X login capability to the network (xdm and setup files) CDE
and dtlogin. Configuring a Chooser.
Solaris Zones
Features of Solaris zones. The uses for zone partitioning. Configure,
install
and boot zones. Pre-configuring zone installation
information. Adding additional directories to an existing zone.
Controlling zone resource limitations. Moving, renaming, cloning and
migrating zones. Zone FAQ.
The ZFS File System
ZFS is a new disk storage pool and file system present
in the main
Solaris release update 2 of June 2006. This section gives a good
practical guide to using ZFS ; creating a storage pool;
adding further devices; hot spares; removing a pool; creating file
systems within a
pool; managing file system properties; reporting on pool and filesystem
status; creating and using snapshots and clones; the ZFS browser-based
GUI; using ZFS filesystems within zones.
System Messaging and Log Management.
System logging (syslogd) operation. The syslog.conf configuration file
directives. Using the logger command to add messages to logs Using the
smc log viewer. Log file management with crontab.
Accounting Mechanisms
Login accounting - viewing data, analysis utilities. Process accounting
- enabling, examining and analysing data.
Automatic Solaris Installation (Jumpstart)
Jump Start Overview. Build servers. Copying Solaris to disk. Creating
rules and profiles for automatic build. Booting and building from the
network interactively and automatically. Includes a full practical
automatic build.
Flash Installs
Overview. Creating a Flash archive. Modifyt the JumpStart files to use
a flash archive for installation. Modifying flash installs. Performing
a
flash install.
Kernel Configuration Parameters
What parameters are available to configure. Examining current kernel
parameters Enforce new values. Using utilities such as vmstat, sar, etc
to monitor and analyse system activity.
NOTE: Sun
have removed the Jumpstart feature from their Part 2 course and instead
provide some additional DIY materials, but we
still cover it in full, including Flash installs, in the classroom.
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