Solaris/Unix System Administration Course No.

ITU008

Course Objectives: Course Contents:

‘Solaris/Unix System Administration’ teaches how to perform Managing User Accounts:

critical system administration tasks in UNIX System V The passwd file and Account attributes;
The group file and user groups;
environments. The course concentrates on Sun Solaris 8, but Adding and Modifying user accounts;
includes references to BSD and may be modified for other unix OS Customising user environments;
types. The course is designed for experienced computer users who User Authorisation - sudo and RBAC
require an understanding and practical skills in Unix (particularly
Maintaining the File System:
Solaris) systems administration Files and File types; Superblocks and inodes;
Filesystem Structure; Disk Partitions and Mount Points;
File Permissions and ownership;
Who Should Attend? Umask, Setuid & Setgid Bits;
Advanced Filesystem Commands;
The course is designed for users with a high degree of familiarity Links and Symbolic Links;
with UNIX environments, filesystems, UNIX commands and text File Compression; Backup Utilities;
editors. ‘UNIX Fundamentals’ or a similar basic/intermediate UNIX Journalled filesystems; Virtual Filesystems;
Volume management; Solstice Disksuite
course is a prerequisite.
Booting Up and Shutting Down:
Initial system level PROM; The Autoboot process;
Duration:
Run Levels; Initialisation files;
The course is designed as a 5-day workshop but can be reduced to 4- Manual System Startup; sync and fsck;
Shutdown and Reboot;
days to suit clients' needs. Savecore and dump partition management.

System Monitoring and Logging:

Course Materials:
All attendees receive a detailed course manual plus a copy of
O'Reilly's "Essential Systems Administration".
Presenter:
The course is presented by Andy Moore, a professional IT instructor
and independent unix systems consultant who has been managing
unix systems networks since 1986. The course material is illustrated
with numerous practical examples from first-hand experience.
Logging facilities and levels; syslogd configuration;
Logging user activity
Adding Peripherals:
Device Drivers; Special files; Adding devices
Partitioning discs; The format utility
Making a file system with newfs; Adding Swap Space
System Installation:
Software package installation; Solaris Installation
Network Installations - Solaris JumpStart
Client Specific Jumpstart Configuration

TCP/IP Network Configuration:

Location: Ethernet; Network models; IP Addressing;
ARPA network commands; Berkeley 'r' Utilities;
Courses are held at Cambrian’s training facility in Houston, Texas Network Daemons; Interface Configuration
and Usk, South Wales. Courses can be held at Client venues for a Sub-nets & Default Routing
suitable number of attendees.
Managing Client/Server Networks:
Name services; DNS, data files, dnsupdate script;
Cost: Configuring NIS clients and servers;
yp maps, ypinit & ypmake script;
The full course fee is US$1950 per person (+Tax) or UK£1400 NFS clients & servers; Automounter;
(+VAT) for 5-day course, US$1540 or UK£1100 for 4-days.
Managing X Windows:
X Windows/Motif; X Libraries & Resources;
Course Dates: X-Terminals, XDMCP & xdm;
CDE, dtwm, dtlogin; X and Non-UNIX Systems
Courses are planned regularly throughout the year. Contact us for the
latest information Process & Licence Management:
Process monitoring & priorities; top and sdtprocess;
Process Resources;
Rogue Process Identification; Killing Processes;
Automating Processes - cron;
Flexlm Licence Management