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Solaris 9 Update Workshop
This workshop is intended for Solaris
Administrators who wish to quickly get up to speed with the new
features of Solaris 9. It covers all the major new facilities, in a
workshop environment, providing extensive hands-on practicals.
Our Solaris courses are suitable training
for Solaris Certification
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| COURSE CODE |
S9UP |
TUTORS |
Mick Hosegood email |
| DURATION |
2 days |
VENUE |
Harwell Training Centre ** |
| 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.
*Special offer price for
existing clients is £400 + VAT
COURSE DATES 2004 - This
course is run according to demand so please call for current dates.
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: This course is only
suitable for experienced Solaris 8 administrators.
FOLLOW UPS: First Alternative offers
an extensive range of Solaris courses. A natural follow-up to this
course would be the Solaris Utilities and Shell Programming course
(suitable for those who wish to become proficient with Solaris
utilities and Bourne/Korn shell programming) course. Solaris
administrators would also find our Perl Programming courses to be of
benefit.
Linux courses are also available, from
Introduction to Linux through to Linux Advanced System Administration.
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
at our Harwell training centre 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. |
| OThe examples from this course are
available (via the internet) to students who have attended. |
SOFTWARE VERSIONS: This course is
suitable for Solaris 9 (beta) on Sun or PC (Intel) platforms.
COURSE PROFILES: During the course,
the student will learn from many practical examples written for this
course and supplied in the manual. For ease of use during and after the
course, we have provided these examples online.
TOPICS COVERED ON THE COURSE
Introduction
What are the main new features? When were they introduced? Flash Archive Installs and Jumpstart
The Flash Install mechanism. Creating a Flash Archive. Use a Flash
archive to install Solaris. The methods available to use an archive. Solaris Management Console (SMC)
The new SMC GUI - overview Using SMC functions in Solaris 9. Adding new
toolboxes for other remote servers. Adding new toolboxes which are name
service aware. Adding legacy applications to SMC. Role-Based
Access Control (RBAC)
RBAC System description and uses. Using RBAC via SMC. Using RBAC with
the command line. RBAC files and directories. Solaris
Volume Manager (SVM) (DiskSuite Replacement)
SVM facilities and major components. Implementing SVM and database
replicas. Creating metadevices, including conacts/stripes, mirrors,
RAID 5, hot spares and soft partitions. Using SMC with SVM to manage
and create devices. Snapshot Utility fssnap (Clean
Backups!)
Overview and facilities of fssnap Creating a file system snapshot.
Taking a backup of a snapshot device. Monitoring the snapshot backing
store. Removing the snapshot and the backing store. Solaris
Resource Manager
Overview and facilities. Creating and managing projects, and
associating them with resource pools. Performance Monitoring. IP Multipathing
Create a mutlipathing network interface using the command line.
(ifconfig) Making the setup permanent.. Examining mutipathing
operation. Device failure and reinstatement. DHCP
The DHCP server and client operation under Solaris. Setting up a DHCP
server from the command line and using the dhcpmgr GUI. Setting up a
Solaris DHCP client. DHCP anfd Jumpstart clients. The
Secure Shell
What is it, and what facilities does it provide? Implementing the sshd
server daemon. Using login, file transfer and X-Window facilites within
SSH. Miscellaneous
Patches and the Patch Manager Tool. SEAM authentication (Similar to
Kerberos)
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