Solaris Operating System Administration for Experienced UNIX Administrators (STS-276-S10)
THIS COURSE REPLACES: STS-276
The Solaris Operating System Administration for Experienced UNIX(R) Administrators course provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform core system administration tasks in the the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris 10 OS). This course is intended to provide experienced UNIX administrators with information about core Solaris concepts, and focuses on practical experience implementing Solaris features through lab exercises. Training is provided in an instructor-led, classroom environment on SPARC-based systems.
Additionally, this course comes with a subscription to a web-based course. This course provides the student with the differences related to the x86 environment in the topics that are covered in the instructor-led training.
Skills Gained
Install the Solaris operating system and administer software packages and patches
Demonstrate familiarity with Boot PROM commands
Perform boot and shutdown procedures on a Solaris system
Reconfigure devices on a Solaris system
Administer user accounts, including configuration of Role-Based Access Control using the command line and the Solaris Management Console (SMC)
Demonstrate proficiency using the Solaris Volume Manager
Describe special file systems available in Solaris, and configure NFS and Autofs
Understand basic concepts related to Solaris Zones
Configure DNS and LDAP clients on Solaris systems
Implement NIS on Solaris systems
Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course should already be familiar with standard system and network administration tasks in their native UNIX environment. This course provides the skills necessary to adapt those administration skills to Solaris 10 OS equivalents.
Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:
Use the basic UNIX command set
Manage files and directories
Use the vi editor
Control the user work environment
Archive files
Use remote commands
Manage file systems
Install operating system software
Perform system boot procedures
Perform user and security administration
Perform system backups and restores
Describe basic RAID concepts
Code:
STS-276-S10
Length:
5 days
Type:
Instructor-Led
Certified By:
Sun Microsystems
Tuition:
$3,500 / $2,975 GSA GOV.
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View and change nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) parameters from the shell
Interrupt an unresponsive system
Module 5 - Performing Boot and Shutdown Procedures
Describe the features of the Service Management Facility
Identify run level fundamentals
Compare run levels and SMF milestones
Identify the phases of the boot process
Use SMF administrative commands
Control boot processes
Perform system shutdown procedures
Module 6 - Managing Local Disk Devices and Device Configuration
Describe the basic architecture of a disk
Describe the naming conventions for devices
List devices
Reconfigure devices
Module 7 - Managing Disk Partitions and Labels
Perform hard disk partitioning
Manage disk labels
Module 8 - Introduction to Solaris Management Console (SMC)
Describe the Solaris Management Console
Partition a disk by using the Solaris Management Console
Module 9 - Creating and Mounting the ufs File System
Create a ufs file system
Perform mounts
Perform unmounts
Access a mounted diskette, CD-ROM, or DVD
Restrict access to a mounted diskette, CD-ROM, or DVD
Access a diskette, CD-ROM, or DVD without Volume Management(vold)
Module 10 - Performing User Administration in the Solaris OS
Describe user administration
Manage user accounts
Manage initialization files
Module 11 - Using the Solaris Management Console
Describe the Solaris Management Console toolbox editor actions
Use the Solaris Management Console toolbox editor
Module 12 - Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
Describe RBAC fundamentals
Describe component interaction within RABC
Manage RBAC by using the Solaris Management Console
Manage RBAC by using the CLI
Module 13 - Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software
Describe Solaris Volume Manager software concepts
Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for the root (/) file system
Module 14 - Managing Swap Configuration
Describe virtual memory
Configure swap space
Module 15 - Configuring NFS
Describe the benefits of NFS
Describe the fundamentals of the NFS distributed file system
Manage an NFS server
Manage an NFS client
Enable the NFS server logging
Manage NFS with the Solaris Management Console storage folder tools
Troubleshoot NFS errors
Module 16 - Configuring AutoFS
Describe the fundamentals of the AutoFS file system
Use automount maps
Module 17 - Managing Crash Dumps and Core Files
Manage crash dump behavior
Manage core file file behavior
Module 18 - Zones
Identify the features of Solaris Zones
Understand how and why zone partitioning is used
Configure zones
Install zones
Boot zones
Configure resource pools
Configure the zone-wise resource controls
Establish physical memory controls using the resource capping daemon
Administer packages in zones
Module 19 - Name Services Overview
Describe the name service concept
Describe the name service switch file /etc/nsswitch.conf
Describe the name service cache daemon (nscd)
Get name service information
Module 20 - Configuring Name Service Clients
Configure a DNS client
Configure an LDAP client
Module 21 - Network Information Service (NIS)
Describe NIS fundamentals
Configure the name service switch file
Describe NIS security
Configure an NIS domain
Build custom NIS maps
Troubleshoot NIS
Module 22 - Describing the Custom JumpStart Software Configurations
Describe the JumpStart software configurations
Implement a basic JumpStart software server
Set up Jumpstart software configuration alternatives
Troubleshoot the JumpStart software configurations
Configure a naming service to support JumpStart software
Module 23 - Performing a Flash Installation
Describe the Flash installation feature
Manipulate a Flash archive
Use a Flash archive for installation
Describe WANboot Flash installation
Remarks
Additionally, this course comes with a subscription to a web-based course. This course provides the student with the differences related to the x86 environment in the topics that are covered in the instructor-led training.
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