WA1310 Solaris OE System Administration

Attendees of this course will learn how to perform the basic day-to-day system administration tasks required on the Solaris Operating Environment. Topics include system start up, and shut down, adding/deleting users, installing terminals, modems, and printers, backing up and restoring system and user data, application package installation, security, and general administrative advice.

Upon Completion of this course the student will be able to:

• State the duties and responsibilities of a system administrator
• Install the Solaris Operating System
• Start up and shut down a Solaris system gracefully
• Add and delete user accounts and groups
• add and configure terminals and printers
• Create new filesystems, check the integrity of filestystems, and repair damaged filesystems
• Identify Solaris floppy and tape device special files
• Perform cmplete and incremental filesystem backups and restores
• Unse the cpio and tar archive programs for data storage and retrieval
• Set upa nd use the cron and at facilities
• Identify and correct common problems.