UNIX / LINUX Administration Course – Part Two

Is it right for me?

A good knowledge of basic Unix administration is required. Attendance on the Unix Administration Part 1 course would give delegates all the required knowledge.

The course will use Sun Solaris but could be applied to the majority of commercial Unix flavours.

What will I get out of it?

By the end of the course delegates will be able to:

• Configure advanced attributes of user accounts to simplify and manage administration tasks
• Configure disk arrays to for redundancy or performance
• Share files and access them across a network
• Configure network addresses and host names
• Configure and use the graphical administration tools
• Manage system panics and core dump files
• Configure a Jumpstart Server to remotely install hosts
• Configure a Jumpstart Server to install flash archives
• Monitor and manage memory use and swap space

What does it cover?

Network Interfaces

• The network/physical service and script
• ifconfig, plumbing and unplumbing
• Physical and virtual interface configuration

Configure system messaging

• Configuration of the syslog daemon
• Monitor network services

Swap and dump space

• Disk slices for paging and swapping
• System panics and crash dump configuration
• Process core file management
• Reading dump files

Sharing files over a network with NFS

• Configuration of an NFS server and clients
• Security of shared data
• Troubleshooting

NFS automounter

• Configuration of an NFS client to mount filesystems on demand
• Direct and indirect maps

Creating raid disk arrays

• The different RAID levels and non raid structures
• Mirrored and mirrored/striped sets
• Parity in RAID 3 and 5
• Device and module configuration
• Solaris Volume Management - command line and in Solaris Management Console

Role based access control

• Configuration of roles and role access
• Configuration of authorisations

Naming Services

• Client resolution process
• DNS servers and clients
• NIS servers and clients
• LDAP servers and clients

Configuration of NIS

• Technical overview of NIS (Network Information Service)
• Configuration of NIS servers and clients

Zones and containers

• Configure local zones
• Resource allocation in zones
• Booting, logging in and shutting down zones
• Uninstalling and de-configuring zones

Configuration of a jumpstart server

• Boot services
• Identity services
• Configuration services
• Install server

Flash installation

• Creating a flash archive
• Management of flash archives
• Installing from a flash archive interactively