Solaris 8 OS System Administration II

Sun Microsystems - Russia
Moscow, Russia

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' The Solaris 8 OS System Administration II course provides students with the skills necessary to administer Sun systems running the Solaris 8 Operating System in a network environment. Students are taught how to maintain Sun systems, configure and troubleshoot the NFS, and configure the Network Information System (NIS) environment.

Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
Identify and describe the files and commands used to control and monitor access to various machines in a network environment
Set up event logging
Administer disks using a volume-management utility
Redirect all core dumps to a single coredump directory
Configure NFS to support the client-server environment
Use the automounter
Set up and configure CacheFS file systems
Use Solaris Management Console to perform administrative system management duties
Set up a role
Describe the various naming services: Domain Name System (DNS), NIS, Network Information System Plus (NIS+), and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
Configure and administer the NIS environment
Use JumpStart software to automate a Solaris Operating Environment installation

Course Content
Module 1 - Introducing the Client-Server Relationship


Describe the network capabilities of the Solaris 8 Operating System in terms of a client-server relationship
List and define at least two types of servers used in the Solaris 8 network environment
Describe the Sun Ray Appliance client-server relationship

Module 2 - Introducing the Solaris Network Environment


Define the function of each layer within the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model and the five-layer Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP) model
Describe the contents of various network control files
Construct command strings to perform basic monitoring operations on an active network
Start and stop network services using the command line

Module 3 - Solaris Operating System syslog()


Configure syslog() message routing
Modify log message priority and severity
Determine the effect of the LOGHOST variable on syslog()
Describe the two methods of starting the syslogd daemon
Add entries to a system log using the logger utility

Module 4 - Introducing Disk Management


List the three utilities used to create, check, and mount file systems
Identify the physical path name differences between physical disks and virtual disks
List the potential advantages between Solstice DiskSuite and Sun StorEdge Volume Manager software
List the main advantages of using a concatenated virtual file system
List the main advantage of using a striped virtual file system
Install the Solstice DiskSuite applications
Use the Solstice DiskSuite application to dynamically grow a file system

Module 5 - Solaris Pseudo File Systems and Swap Space


Define the Solaris pseudo file system types
Describe the relationship between system processes and the /proc directory
Describe how the tmpfs file system improves performance
Define an fdfs file system entry in the /etc/vfstab file
Use the dumpadm program to display and configure system dump behavior
Use the coreadm command to display and configure core file behavior
Create and add a swap file or partition to the swap space

Module 6 - NFS


Describe the functions of an NFS server and an NFS client
Make resources available and unavailable for mounting
Edit the /etc/dfs/dfstab file on an NFS server to enable automatic sharing of resources
Display a server’s available resources for mounting
Mount a resource from another system
Edit the /etc/vfstab file to mount resources on an NFS client
Describe the function of these commands: mountall, umountall, shareall, and unshareall
Describe and configure NFS logging

Module 7 - AutoFS


List the benefits of using the automount utility
Describe the purpose of each of the types of automount maps
Configure the auto_master map to specify which direct, indirect, and special maps the automountd daemon reads
Create the auto_direct map with the full path names and mount options for automatically mounting remote file resources
Modify the auto_home map as an example of an indirect map providing a consistent view of home directories across the network, regardless of where the user is logged in

Module 8 - CacheFS File Systems


Describe the CacheFS file system
Use the appropriate commands to configure the CacheFS file system
Use the appropriate commands to check the status and consistency of the CacheFS file system
Set up CacheFS file system logging
Describe the steps necessary to perform a check of the CacheFS file system
List the steps to dismantle and delete a CacheFS file system

Module 9 - Solaris Management Console


List the benefits of the Solaris Management Console and the SMC Toolbox Editor
Configure access to multiple toolbox servers from the home server
Open alternate toolboxes for Solaris Management Console access
Add tools to the server toolbox application categories
Insert a tool folder to contains legacy tools
Embed legacy applications within the Solaris Management Console, to include command-line interfaces (CLIs), X applications (XAPPs), and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Universal Resource Locators (URLs)
Demonstrate the usage of the Solaris Management Applications (SMApps)

Module 10 - Role-Based Access Control


Build an association between users and roles with authorizations and execution profiles
Define authorizations and their attributes
List a profile’s assigned authorizations
Define the privileged operations that are assigned to a profile
Identify help files that are associated with profiles and authorizations
Configure a user’s execution profile to allow access to a specified subset of system administrator privileges

Module 11 - Naming Services Overview


Describe the concept of a naming service
List the available naming services
Compare the functionality of naming services
Describe the name service switch process, and determine which configuration is appropriate for your network

Module 12 - Network Information Service


Describe the Network Information Service (NIS) components: master server, slave server, and client, and the NIS processes
Configure an NIS master, slave, and client
List the steps to add a new NIS map
Use commands to update and propagate an NIS map

Module 13 - JumpStart - Automatic Installation


List the main components for setting up a JumpStart network installation
Set up boot services on a subnet using the setup_install_server script
Describe the JumpStart client boot sequence
List the files necessary to support JumpStart boot operations
Describe the use of the sysidcfg file with and without name service support
Set up a JumpStart installation server to provide the Solaris 8 Operating System with the software necessary to install clients
Describe the use of the add_to_install_server and modify_install_server scripts
Add install clients to the install servers and boot servers
Create a configuration server with customized rules and class files
Use the pfinstall command to test configuration and installation files
Boot install clients
Configure NIS name service support for the JumpStart program

Module 14 - Solaris Administrator Workshop


Install the Solaris 8 Operating System using Solaris Web Start software
Partition a disk to a specified format
Build new file systems and mount file systems
Configure the automounter
Set up an NIS domain
Create ad ...''

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