Solaris System Administration 1 (Comparable to Sun's SA-238)
Solaris Training Overview
This course is designed to teach you how to administer a standalone
Sun workstation running Solaris 8 or Solaris 9. It covers all the topics that are covered on the first Sun Certification Exam. The course covers the exam objectives in enough detail for the inexperienced administrator to learn the objectives and apply the
knowledge to real-life scenarios. Experienced administrators will
find the material in this course to be complete and concise, making
it a valuable reference guide. The course addresses the Certification Exam objectives in detail,
from start to finish. If you are unsure about the objectives on
the exam, this course will teach you what you need to know. After
each chapter, there are extensive review questions and exercises. Included with the course is an ExamGear CD-ROM, which can be used to
assess your knowledge of the objectives covered on the exam. This
CD-ROM contains sample questions that you are likely to see on the
real exam.
Solaris Training Prerequisites
would be beneficial.
Solaris Training Course duration
5 Days
Solaris Training Course outline
System Startup and Shutdown
The Booting Process
Using Run Control Scripts to Stop or Start Services
Shutting Down the System
OpenBoot
OpenBoot Environment
OpenBoot Architecture
OpenBoot Interface
Getting Help in OpenBoot
OpenBoot Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM)
OpenBoot Security
OpenBoot Diagnostics
Booting from OpenBoot
The Kernel
Installing the Solaris 8 Software
Requirements and Preparation for Installing Solaris 8
Software terminology (packages and clusters)
Disk Size Considerations
Device Naming (physical,logical and instance names)
Methods of Installing the Operating System
Software Package Administration
Tools for Managing Software
Adding and Removing Software Packages
Listing and Verifying Installed Packages
Using a Spool Directory
Installing and Removing Software Patches
Setting Up User Accounts
Adding, Deleting, and Modifying User Accounts with Admintool
Adding, Deleting, and Modifying User Accounts from the Command Line
Setting Up User Initialization Files
Introduction to File System
Hard Disk Terminology (defect list, label, partition table)
Solaris File System Types
Managing Disk Slices
Using the format Command
Internal Structure of a UFS File System
Creating a UFS File System
Customizing a UFS File System
Repairing a UFS File System
Mounting and Unmounting File Systems
Displaying Disk Usage Information
Solaris File Systems: Advanced Topics
The labelit Command
The volcopy Command
Using the fstyp Command to Tune a File System
The fuser Command
The /etc/mnttab File
Large versus Small Files
Managing CD-ROM and Floppy devices with the Volume Management Daemon
System Security
Logins and Passwords
Restricted Shells
Effective Versus Real UIDs and GIDs
Special Permission Bits (SETUID, SETGID, sticky)
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Umask
Monitoring System Logins and Processes
Network Security
TCP Wrappers
Trusted Hosts (/etc/hosts.equiv and ~/.rhosts)
Restricting FTP Access
Securing Network Services Through the inetd Daemon
Restricting Root Access
SUDO
Automated Security Enhancement Tool (ASET)
Common Sense Security Techniques
Process Control
Viewing Processes (ps, pgrep, prstat, CDE process manager)
Understanding Signals
Scheduling Priorities
Scheduling Batch-Processes (at, crontab)
System Logging with syslogd
The LP Print Service
Understanding the Solaris Print System
Configuring a Print Server
Configuring a Print Client
Managing Printer Access
Managing Queues and Classes
Setting a Default Printer
Restarting the Printer Daemon
Backup and Recovery
The Importance of Backups
Types of Backup Devices
Backup Utilities (ufsdump, tar, cpio, dd)
Recovering the / or /usr File System
Writing Shell Scripts
Bourne Shell Basics
Variables
Conditional Statements
Looping Constructs
Functions
Appendices
Fast Facts
Study and Exam Prep Tips
Practice Exam
Web Start Method of Installing Solaris
Administration and Configuration of the CDE
The History of Solaris
Overview of the Certification Process
What's on the ExamGear CD-ROM
Using the ExamGear, Training Guide
