COURSE OUTLINE:

Chapter I      System Administration Overview

• Sun Hardware types
• Solaris Operating Environment configurations
• Review of administration functions

Chapter II      File System Structure

• File system structure and slicing
• The Solaris directory hierarchy
• Identification of files and file types
• Using symbolic and hard links

Chapter III      Disk Storage Management for local disk drives.

• Disk concepts and structure
• Slices (partitions) and Solaris device naming conventions
• Physical disk connection
• Listing and reconfiguring the systems devices
• Slicing and labelling disks with the format utility and the Solaris Management Console (smc)
• Creating a Solaris file system with newfs
• Deciding how to mount the new files system
• updating /etc/vfstab for permanent mounts
• Using fsck to perform file system integrity checks
• Monitoring disk usage and directory sizes

Chapter IV      File System Maintenance and Security

• The mount command
• Mount options
• The cachefs and LOFS file systems
• Handling CD and floppy disks
• Making room on the file system
• File system security
• SMC file system functions
• Utilities for file... system monitoring

Chapter V      System Build (Installing Solaris)

• Planning disk layout
• Booting from CD, DVD or network to build
• Building Solaris from scratch; selecting software options, disk slicing, etc.
• Post-installation procedures
• Overview of automatic installation
• Upgrading from a previous Solaris release

Chapter VI      Patch Administration

• Obtaining and installing the latest patches, including clusters and individual patches
• Examining the current patch level of a machine
• Removing patches

Chapter VII      Software Configuration and Package Administration

• How to set up and customise a variety of tools, including shells, Common Desktop Environment, manual pages and AnswerBook
• Examining, Installing and removing software packages using command line utilities, including Solaris distribution options
• Using the Webstart installer mechanism to install software
• Using the Solaris Product Registry (prodreg)

Chapter VIII      Boot PROM

• Monitor prompt commands (boot, probe-scsi, probe-ide, test-net, devalias etc.)
• Identifying system settings such as the default boot device
• Using the eeprom command to view and change settings
• Troubleshooting boot failure

Chapter IX      Start-up and Shutdown

• In-depth explanation of the new Service Management Facility (SMF)
• Using SMF utilities to monitor and control boot processes
• Adding your own scripts at system boot
• Understanding and changing run levels
• Shutting down, suspending and powering off the system
• Power management
• Additional information for previous Solaris versions

Chapter X      Adding and Maintaining Users

• Concepts
• Ownership of files, directories and processes
• Classes of user
• Adding a user manually, via command line tools and graphically
• User initialization file management
• Password control
• Real and effective id
• Using SMC for user management
• Introduction to Role Based Access Control (RBAC) facilities

Chapter XI      Solaris Groups

• Overview
• The group file
• Group identification of files and directories
• The newgrp, groups and chgrp commands
• Complete example of creating and using a group
• Using SMC with groups

Chapter XII      System Security

• Monitoring access to the system
• Using the su (Switch User) command, and monitoring its use
• Restricting file and directory access using protection mechanisms, including access modes, s and t bits, umask, chown and chmod
• Introduction to Access Control Lists (ACLs)

Chapter XIII      Adding a Printer

• Overview
• Printer types and connection methods, including network printers
• Software modifications
• Spooling system commands
• Administrator control commands
• Remote printer facilities
• Printer classes
• Using the Solaris GUIs for printer management
• Specifying both system and user default printer destinations

Chapter XIV      System Processes

• Examining and controlling processes using ps, kill, and the Process Manager
• Automating commands with crontab and at, for one-off and regular command execution

Chapter XV      Back-Up and Restore Utilities, including snapshots

• Overview and Preparation
• Tape types and capacities
• Sample ufsdump commands
• Backup strategies
• Taking a complete backup with ufsdump Summary of ufsdump command options
• Using fssnap to snapshot the file system and take a clean backup
• Restoring individual files and directories
• Restoring an entire system
• Considerations for disaster recovery
• The tar, cpio and mt utilities
• Backups versus archives

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