WA1310 Solaris OE System Administration Training and Courseware

What you will learn:

After 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.

Duration

Five days.

UNIT 1 – SYSTEM ADMINSTRATION UNIT OVERVIEW

1. Unit Overview
2. The Duties of the System Administrator
3. Choosing A System Administrator
4. The root Login
5. Setting up a System Logbook
6. System Documentation
7. Other Recommended Books
8. Site Planning
9. Filesystem and Process Management
10. Standard Unix Directory Hierarchy
11. Mountable File Systems
12. Checking Filesystem Free Disk Space
13. Disk Usage – The du Command
14. File and Directory Attributes
15. Processes
16. Checking System Status
17. Monitoring System Load
18. Managing Processes
19. Helpful Commands
20. admintool – Graphical User Interface Administration Tool
21. The Solaris Management Console
22. Performing System Administration Tasks
23. Unit Review
24. Unit Review Questions

UNIT 2 – OPERATING SYSTEM INSTALLATION

1. Introduction
2. Solaris OE Installation Types
3. Planning the Installation
4. Solaris 8/9 Operating Environment Installation
5. Installing Additional Packages
6. Post-Installation Tasks
7. Unit Review

UNIT 3 – SYSTEM STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN

1. Unit Overview
2. Starting Up Solaris OE-SPARC
3. Bringing Up Solaris OE – x86
4. Booting the System – SPARC
5. Booting the System – Solaris x86
6. System Shutdown
7. The /usr/sbin/shutdown Command
8. Alternative Shutdown Commands
9. Unit Exercise – Part 1
10. Events Which Occur During Startup
11. Run Levels
12. The /etc/init Process
13. System Initialization Example
14. Controlling init
15. Initializing Scripts
16. Multi-User Initialization
17. Shutdown Revisited
18. The /etc/uadmin Command
19. Abnormal Shutdown
20. Unit Review
21. Unit Exercise

UNIT 4 - USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

1. Unit Overview
2. Overview of User Accounts
3. User Account Files
4. Adding a User Account
5. User and System Account Files
6. The /usr/bin/passwd Command
7. Locking and Unlocking User Accounts
8. Modifying Account Information
9. The groupmod Command
10. Deleting a User Account
11. The groupdel Command
12. Alternative User Account Management Facilities
13. Unit Review
14. Unit Exercise

UNIT 5 – TERMINALS AND PRINTERS

1. Unit Overview
2. Installing a Terminal
3. Serial Ports
4. RS-232 Communications
5. Serial Cable Configurations
6. Terminals
7. Service Access Facility
8. The Service Access Controller
9. Port Monitors
10. Port Services
11. SAF Configuration Files
12. SAF Administrative Files
13. SAF Initialization
14. The ttyp Monitor (ttymon)
15. Defining tty Parameters
16. The sttydefs Program
17. sac Adminstration
18. Creating a Port Monitor
19. Port Monitor Management
20. The ttyadm Program
21. The pmadm Command
22. Terminal Troubleshooting
23. Managing Serial Ports Using admintool
24. Using Solaris Management Console to Manage Serial Ports
25. Overviw of the Print Spooling Mechanism
26. How the Print Spooling Mechanism Works
27. Printer Installation and Configuration
28. Setting Up the Print Spooler
29. Administering Printers Using the GUI Printer Administration Tool
30. Unit Review
31. Unit 5 Review Questions

UNIT 6 – FILESYSTEM MAINTENANCE

1. Unit Overview
2. Filesystem Features
3. Types of Files
4. Types of Filesystems on Solaris
5. File/Directory Manipulation
6. Hard Drive Partitioning
7. Slice Assignments
8. Mountable Filesystems
9. The /etc/vfstab File
10. The mount Command – Listing Mounted Files
11. Mounting a Filesystem
12. Unmounting a Filesystem
13. The Volume Manager
14. The Volume Manager and Device Files
15. The sync Command
16. Filesystem Permissions
17. Periodic Cleanup of Filesystems
18. Filesystem Maintenance
19. fsck – Filesystem Check Command
20. Creating a Filesystem
21. Filesystem Management Commands
22. Unit Review
23. Unit Review Questions

UNIT 7 – DISK & TAPE MANAGEMENT

1. Unit Overview
2. I/O Subsystem
3. Character I/O
4. Device Types
5. Identifying Devices
6. Formatting Floppy Diskettes
7. Archive Programs
8. The cpio Command
9. The tar Command
10. Notes About Archives
11. Unit Review

UNIT 8 – BACKUP & RESTORE

1. Unit Overview
2. Backup Strategies
3. Backup Methods
4. The ufsdump Command
5. Suggested Dump Schedule
6. The ufsrestore Command
7. Customized Backups
8. Unit Review
9. Unit Exercise

UNIT 9 – JOB SCHEDULING

1. Unit Overview
2. The cron Daemon
3. The crontab Command
4. Submitting Jobs With at
5. Unit Review

UNIT 10 – SYSTEM EFFICIENCY & TROUBLE ANALYSIS

1. Unit Overview
2. System Efficiency
3. Recovering From System Problems