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Overview of our Solaris Courses

First Alternative's bread and butter are our range of Solaris courses. For over 20 years we have been providing the Solaris community (both in the UK and Europe, and more recently the USA) with an alternative to the manufacturer's courses, providing a path te Solaris Certified Administrator and Network Administrator certification.

We offer a broad range designed at getting the most out of Solaris, no matter whether your role be user, administrator or developer.

Typically, our courses cover more topics, and at far less cost, than the equivalent manufacturers courses, yet lead to the identical Solaris Certification level.

Our Solaris courses are suitable training for Solaris Certification

Please select this link for a list of all our scheduled courses.

 

Introduction to Solaris

Our Introduction to Solaris course covers Solaris fundamentals, but in a practical and thorough way. You'll feel confident and eager to learn more, and will have all the skills necessary to handle day-to-day Solaris sessions. Many people comment that this is a "well-rounded" course, and sets them up perfectly to progress further. Logging in, file manipulation, directory skills, documentation, vi editor, file permissions, processes, shell command-line skills (IO control, history, aliases, using quotes) Want more? Utilities overview, and Sun Java Desktop window system are also covered, plus to finish off, a network services overview. A truly comprehensive course which provides the best possible springboard into your Solaris career.

Solaris Utilities and Shell Programming

If you administrate Solaris, or look after applications support (or a hundred other similar technical roles!) then our Solaris Utilities and Shell Programming course provides essential skills to get the absolute most out of the Solaris system. The two main areas covered are Solaris utilities (the nawk, sed, grep and sort variety, plus many others including tar, dd and find; Oh, and differentail commands such as comm and diff) and Bourne/Korn shell programming. These sections will give you the skills required to write (and understand) complex shell command procedures to automate many tasks such as reports, backups, adding users, data manipulation, system monitoring, and so much more. You'll also learn the more intricate and powerful aspects of the vi editor (Not too long on this though!)  A real power-users course designed to make the most of Solaris. This course, combined with the Solaris Introduction course (course code SI), provides preparation for the new Sun Certified Solaris Associate (SCSAS) CX-310-105 exam. Further courses lead to administrator certifications;

Solaris 10 Administration - Part 1

Essential skills for successful and secure systems administration. Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 1), the first in a series of four admin courses, concentrates on the important areas common to all workstations, such as Solaris installation, software management the admin SMC GUI tools, Startup and Shutdown, File system management and security, the new ZFS file system, taking backups and restoring (even a complete system), the use of file system snapshots, plus adding printers and disks. Everyone who needs to look after a Solaris system should start here. This course is the equivalent of the Sun SA-200-S10 Solaris Administration Part 1 course, but it covers more for a lot less money! This course provides preparation for the Solaris Certified Systems Administrator (SCSA) Part 1 CX-310-200 exam.

Solaris 10 Administration - Part 2

For those who manage networked Solaris machines and perform advanced administartion duties, the Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 2) course is as essential as the part 1. You will understand how to physically connect your system then look at the IP address scheme and get machines talking. Then configure network logical interfaces, IPMP (IP Multipathing) ,basic access commands (ssh, etc) , security control, network processes and network monitoring. Move on to thoroughly explore the NFS (Network File System) file sharing mechanism including auto-mounting user home directories and others.  Learn how to store and manage admin files centrally using the LDAP name service (a full working set up of LDAP is shown in the notes). Set up basic SAMBA file sharing and Apache web server configurations.
The course continues with advanced topics such as Jump Start and Build servers, Flash Installs, Solaris Volume Manager (SVM),  Crash and core dump management, RBAC, System Messaging and Log Management. The Solaris containers (Zones) facility for creating additional Solaris (and now Linux and Solaris 8/9) environments on the same machine. Not forgetting an extensice session with Live Upgrade to install and maintain alternate boot environments while the machie is running... This course is the equivalent of the Sun SA-202-S10 course, and provides preparation for the Solaris Certified Systems Administrator (SCSA) Part 2 CX-310-202 exam..
You need to pass both Parts 1 & 2 to become certified.

Solaris 10 Network Administration

This five-day Solaris 10 Network Administration course is designed to cover Solaris network administration in depth and is an extension to our Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 1) and  Solaris 10 Systems Administration (Part 2). This course covers many networking topics, including the TCP/IP model; network topologies, media, interfaces and utilities; ARP and RARP; configuring IP; IPMP (Multipathing); routing; IPV6 (IP version 6); DNS (Domain Name System);  DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol); NTP (Network Time Protocol) and IP Filter Firewall. Additional topics are also covered, including Link Aggregations with dladm, Wireless Network configuratiom, and ISCSI configuration, with full hands-on experience at all stages. This course is comparable with the Sun SA-300-S10 course and leads to the Solaris Certified Network Administrator CX-310-302 exam.

Solaris 10 Update Workshop (Solaris 10 New Features for Experienced Administrators)

Solaris 10 Update Workshop this workshop is intended for Solaris Administrators who wish to quickly get up to speed with the new features of Solaris 10. It covers all the major new facilities, in a workshop environment, providing extensive hands-on practicals.

Solaris Live Upgrade Workshop

Solaris Live Upgrade Workshop

Live Upgrade provides advanced upgrading and patching capabilities on Solaris SPARC and Intel platforms, especially since the 10/08 update 6 release, which introduced ZFS root pools. Boot environments can now be almost instantly cloned for upgrading or patching while the system is live, and once the upgrade or patching is done, only a reboot is required to complete the task. The old boot environment. acts as a backup to fall back to in case of problems..
This one-day training course provides a thorough and practical look at Live Upgrade for both upgrading the OS and installing patches. The course utilises both SPARC and Intel systems for the practical sessions, covering both UFS and ZFS boot environments. Additional Live Upgrade facilities are also demostrated, such as the ability to install a boot environment from a Flash Archive.

Solaris Logical Domains Administration

Solaris Logical Domains Administration
This intensive one-day course covers all the areas necessary to install and administrate the Solaris 10 Logical Domains software on Sun CMT (Core Multi-Threaded) servers. It starts with server access configuration, followed by firmware issues, and then examines building the Solaris 10 OS and installing the latest Logical Domain Manager (LDOM) software.. This is followed by LDOM configuration of the Control and Service domains, and a variety of guest domains each running their own operating system. Further administration tasks such as changing domain resources are also covered.
Attendees have full access to a CMT server for the duration of the course.

Upcoming Solaris Courses

Solaris CIFS File Sharing
Solaris CIFS is the new Microsoft File Sharing protocol to be built in to Solaris, as an alternative to using the open source Samba software. First Alternative will have a one-day course available for this new feature as soon as it becomes available in the main Solaris release.

Solaris Course Materials

Solaris Course Materials

Click on the above link for details of our Solaris courseware, available for purchase for self-study or running your own Solaris courses.

Mick Hosegood, Parther, First Alternative (UK), 2010.

 

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