UNX-301: Solaris System Administration II

Overview:
This five-day course focuses on providing students advanced skills and knowledge to administer the Solaris Operating System.

Prerequisites:
Prior to attending this class, students should have the following experience:

• Completion of the Introduction to UNIX course or equivalent experience
• Completion of the Solaris System Administration I course or equivalent experience

Objectives:
Upon successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

• administer networking software on Solaris machines including DNS, LDAP and NIS.
• configure JumpStart to create automated installation processes.
• administer network devices.
• Perform virtual disk management and administer RAID.
• Perform advanced configuration of NFS , automount and CacheFS file systems.
• Create and maintain Bourne Shell scripts.
• monitor and improve system performance.

Modules:

1. Networking Interfaces
2. The Client-Server model
3. Using the Solaris Management Console
4. Swap Space Administration
5. Administering dump files
6. NFS
7. AutoFS
8. RAID
9. Volume Management
10. Access Control Lists
11. RBAC
12. Smartcard Authentication
13. System Logs
14. Name Services Essentials
15. DNS and LDAP
16. NIS
17. Jumpstart
18. Flash Installation