Suitable for:

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.

Objectives:

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.

Course Content

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 & 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