Audience: System Administors, those who wish to be System Administrators and anyone else who will asked to perform administrative tasks in a networked environment.

Prerequisites: Solaris System Administration 1 or equivalent experience.

Overview: This course is designed to teach you how to administer a networked Sun workstation running Solaris 8. It covers all the topics that are covered on the second Sun Certification Exam.

  COURSE CONTENT
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  1 - Device Management Review

Objectives:

- Describe the following - sector, track & cylinder
- Differentiate between logical, physical, and instance names
- List and review the functions of the format utility
- List the utilities used to create, check, and mount file systems
- Perform a reconfiguration boot

  2 - Solaris Volume Management

Objectives:

- Differintiate between physical pathnames and virtual pathnames
- List the advantages of using virtual disk management
- Compare Solstice Disk Suite and Veritas Volume Manager
- List the advantages of using a concatinated file system
- List the advantages of using a striped file system
- Install the Solstice Disk Suite application
- Use the SDS applicaion to grow a file system

  3 - Pseudo File Systems and Swap

Objectives:

- Define the different Solaris pseudo file system types
- Clarify the importance of the /proc directory
- Understand the relationship between /tmp and RAM
- Use the dumpadm command to configure system dumps
- Use the coreadm command to configure application core dumps
- Add and remove a swap file or device from swapfs control

  4 - Introduction to TCP/IP

Objectives:

- Describe the purpose and function of each network model layer
- Compare the 5-layer ISO/OSI model to the 7-layer TCP/IP model
- Identify and understand the protocols used at each network layer
- Understand and define encapsulation and de-encapsulation
- Relate hostnames to IP addresses to Ethernet addresses
- List network interface information with the ifconfig command
- Monitor network activity using the snoop command

  5 - Advanced Security

Objectives:

- Understand and work with Access Control Lists
- Set file Access Control Lists with the setfacl command
- Explain how to identify and define a shadow inode
- Display file Access Control Lists with the getfacl command
- Discuss the advantages of remote computing
- Define the format of the /etc/hosts.equiv & ~/.rhosts files
- Work with the r-commands in a trusted network environment

  6 - The syslog Facility

Objectives:

- Summarize the life of a message
- Define the function of the syslog daemon
- Control the behavior of syslogd using the /etc/syslog.conf
- Understand the format of the /etc/syslog.conf file
- Determine the effect of the LOGHOST variable on syslog
- Add entries to the system log using the logger utility

  7 - Understanding NFS

Objectives:

- Describe the files, commands, and daemons relative to an NFS server
- Describe the files, commands, and daemons relative to an NFS client
- List the conditions that are required for file sharing to occur
- Use the share command to make resouces available for mounting
- Use the dfshares command to display available server resources
- Mount a shared resource from a remote system
- Use the /etc/vfstab file to mount remote file systems at boot
- Define the following: mountall, umountall, shareall & unshareall
- Describe and configure NFS logging

  8 - CacheFS

Objectives:

- List the advantages and disadvantages of a Cache File System
- Explain the syntax and directory placement of cached information
- Learn the appropriate commands to configure a cache file system
- Perform status and consistancy checks on cached information
- Configure logging for a cache file system

  9 - The automount Utility

Objectives:

- List and discuss the benefits of the automount utility
- Compare the automount command to the automoountd daemon
- Understand and configure the automount maps
- Differintiate between direct and indirect automount maps
- Describe the format of the /etc/auto_master map
- Configure /etc/auto_direct to allow direct automounting
- Configure /etc/auto_home to allow indirect automounting

  10 - Naming Services

Objectives:

- Explain the Name Service Concept
- List the Naming Services available with Solaris
- Define what a namespace is and how it relates to naming services
- Understand and work with the NIS service
- Differintiate between NIS and NIS+
- Configure a naming service using the /etc/nsswitch.conf file

  11 - Configuring NIS

Objectives:

- Define the NIS components: Master, Slave and Client
- Match specified NIS processes to their respective yp daemons
- Understand the structure of the make utility and its Makefile
- Configure a NIS Client, NIS Slave, and NIS Master
- Access and test the NIS Naming Service
- Add additional maps to the existing NIS configuration
- Remove your NIS Master to test your failover configuration
- Outline the steps required to change the NIS Master
- List the steps to remove NIS services from any client

  12 - JumpStart™

Objectives:

- Describe the features and benefits of Jumpstart
- List the network components required for an automatic install
- Understand and define the elements of a jumpstart server
- Explain the importance of a boot server on a subnet
- Go through the steps to set up an Install Server
- Create tailored rules and class files for custom installations
- Add install clients to install servers and boot servers
- Work with the add_install_client & add_to_install_server scripts
- Perform a remote automatic install over the network

  13 - The Monster Lab

Objectives:

- Install Solaris in three methods
- Partition a disk to a specified format
- Create new file systems with different attributes
- Manually mount local and remote file systems
- Create and configure a cache file system
- Automatically mount local and remote file systems
- Configure automounting to work with cachefs
- Set up the NiS naming service to work with Jumpstart
- Add, remove, and configure swap files and swap devices
- Set up a home directory serer
- Set up a Jumpstart server
- Rebuild the root file system from a backup device