Certified Training Course in Solaris

Contents


...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... FILE SYSTEM STRUCTURE ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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

..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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 and fmthard utilities and the Solaris Management Console (smc)
• Creating a Solaris file system with newfs
• Using tunefs to change file system parameters
• 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

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... AN INTRODUCTION TO ZFS .........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

ZFS is a new disk storage pool and file system present in the main Solaris release update 2 of June 2006. This section gives a good practical introduction to using ZFS.

• Creating a storage pool
• Adding further devices
• Removing a poll
• Creating file systems within a pool
• The ZFS browser-based GUI

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... FILE SYSTEM MAINTENANCE AND SECURITY .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

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

........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 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

........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... PATCH ADMINISTRATION ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

• Obtaining and installing the latest patches, including clusters and individual patches
• Examining the current patch level of a machine
• Removing patches
• An introduction to Sun Update Connection for automatic updates and patches

......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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)

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... START-UP AND SHUTDOWN .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

• In-depth explanation of the new Service Management Facility (SMF)
• Using SMF utilities to monitor and control boot processes
• Modifying SMF properties with svccfg
• Self healing and Process Contracts
• SMF repositories and recovery
• Adding your own scripts and SMF service descriptions at system boot
• SMF milestones
• Understanding and changing run levels
• Shutting down, suspending and powering off the system
• Power management
• Additional information for previous Solaris versions
• Notes on using the GRUB bootloader on Intel platforms

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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 initialisation file management
• Password control
• Real and effective id
• Using SMC for user management
• Introduction to Role Based Access Control (RBAC) facilities

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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)

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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

..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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

...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 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

...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... SOLARIS 10 SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION II (SUN SA-202-S10) DURATION 40 HRS ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... PREREQUISITES ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... Knowledge of Solaris 10 System Administration I. ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... COURSE CONTENT INTRODUCTION TO ETHERNET AND NETWORKING ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

• Overview
• Simplest Ethernet
• Ethernet options
• The ISO/OSI 7 layer model

....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... THE IP NETWORK ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

• IP addresses, sockets and ports, multicast addresses
• Hardware requirements/options
• Twisted pair & fibre optic
• Facts and Figures
• Troubleshooting

.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... NETWORK CONFIGURATION ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

• Client/server concepts, processes and control
• Configuring a machines IPv4 interfaces manually for network connection, with many ifconfig examples
• Understanding Internet Address classes and CIDR, and formulating Internet addresses
• Configuring logical interfaces
• Multipathing configuration and operation (Failover and load spreading)
• Configuring an Internetwork Router
• Examples of route commands for manual routing, and persistent routes
• in.routed for dynamic routing
• Subnets and netmasks
• Network basic commands and the associated security files
• Running GUI programs using X-Windows facilities
• Network daemons
• Inetd. and SMF
• The inetadm and inetconv commands
• TCP wrappers
• Network Monitoring utilities (snoop, netstat, traceroute, nmap, ethereal, etc)

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... NETWORK FILE SYSTEM (NFS) AND AUTOFS ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

• Overview
• Benefits and uses of NFS
• NFS Installation
• NFS Administration
• Sharing file systems
• The mount command
• NFS security
• NFS logging
• NFS strategies
• Introduction and basic use of the automounter (AutoFS)
• Using SMC with NFS
• NFSV4 features

.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... SAMBA SERVER OVERVIEW ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... A brief overview of this powerful and impressive free open-source server now included with Solaris 10, which effectively turns a Solaris machine (or other UNIX/Linux machine) into a Windows NT server. A working SAMBA installation will be created, with graphical configuration using swat via a web browser. ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. OVERVIEW OF SOLARIS NAME SERVICES ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

• NIS. NIS+, LDAP and DNS - how they work, advantages and disadvantages of each
• The Name Service Switch and /etc/nsswitch.conf
• The Name Service Cache Daemon (nscd)

................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ NETWORK INFORMATION SERVICE (NIS) ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

• Introduction
• Creating a fully-functioning NIS service
• Using the ypinit command to create Master and Slave servers
• Updating the NIS information from the command line
• Using SMC with NIS to manage users, groups and hosts
• Adding NIS clients
• NIS file policies
• Creating and using netgroups with /etc/netgroup
• Adding your own data to NIS
• Modifying the NIS Makefile
• Disabling NIS

.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... DNS AND LDAP CLIENTS ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

• Configuring clients to use DNS and LDAP name services

.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. INTRODUCTION TO THE APACHE WEB SERVER .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

• Major Components
• Browser invocation and configuration
• Apache Web Server installation and activation
• Installing a custom web site
• Enabling the Jakarta Tomcat java facility
• Examples of common Apache configuration directives

.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. SETTING UP ELECTRONIC MAIL .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

• Overview
• How to use mail
• Mail routing
• Files and programs involved
• Setting up mail - local network
• Name Service considerations
• Using NFS to mount mail boxes
• Testing mail delivery
• Mail aliases
• External links and connecting to the Internet