Solaris Training

Syllabus of Solaris Course

Solaris 10 System Administration – Part I

INTRODUCTION

• Introduction to UNIX
• What is Kernel – Shell – File System – Client/Server
• Hardware Requirements – Sparc vs Intel
• Basic Unix commands

BOOT PROCEDURES

• Openboot interface
• Openboot parameters
• Device names and aliases
• Boot Options
• Booting with GRUB

STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN PROCEDURES

• Boot Phases
• init
• System run levels
• inittab file
• Run control scripts
• Adding a run control script
• Disabling a run control script
• The shutdown command
• The init command
• The halt/poweroff commands
• The reboot command
• The stop-a command

SERVICE MANAGEMENT FACILITY

• Basic Features
• The SMF Environment
• SMF and Booting
• SMF Environmental Structures
• Service States
• Managing Services
• Listing Services with svcs and inetadm
• Managing the State of a Service with svcadm
• Configuring a Service with svccfg
• Managing the State of inetd Network Services with inetadm

INSTALLING THE SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM

• Installation requirements
• Partitions and multiple disks
• Packages, Clusters and Groups
• Configuration cluster
• Definition of Installation methods
• Interactive Installation Process

SOFTWARE PACKAGE ADMINISTRATION

• Documentation Packages
• Configuration clusters
• Displaying current software package information
• Checking the installation of a package
• Adding software packages
• Removing software packages
• Package logfiles & Troubleshooting tips

MANAGING PROCESSES

• Introduction to Process Management
• The ps command
• The prstat command
• The kill command
• Using the cron processes
• Creating crontab entries
• Crontab command options
• The at command

MAINTENANCE OF PATCHES

• Maintenance of patches and patch clusters
• Verification of currently installed patches
• Installing a patch on the system
• Removing a patch from the system
• Patch logfiles

DISK MANAGEMENT

• Displaying disk information
• Partitions/Slices
• Naming conventions
• Physical device names
• Instance name
• Logical device names
• Block and character devices
• Configuring new disk devices
• Partitioning the disk with the format command and Solaris
• Management Console
• Making a new partition

FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

• Disk based file systems
• Main root sub-directories
• Pseudo file systems
• Components of a ufs file system
• Boot block
• Superblocks
• Inodes
• Data disk blocks
• Ulimit parameter
• File types
• Symbolic and Hard links
• Creating file systems
• The newfs command
• The mount command
• The umount command
• The vfstab file
• The mnttab file
• Filesystem checking
• Determining if a file system needs checking
• Running fsck manually
• The lost+found directories
• Automounting CDs and floppies (Volume Management)
• Checking free disk space
• The df command
• The quot command
• The du command
• Freeing disk space
• Freeing up disk space with compression utilities
• Rotating files with logadm

ZFS

• ZFS – A Basic Description
• Main Features
• ZFS Tools
• Managing ZFS Pools with zpool
• Pool Configuration Features
• Creating and Deleting (‘Destroying Pools’)
• Managing File Systems with ZFS
• Creating and Destroying a File System

FILE SECURITY AND ACLS

• ACLs (Access Control Lists)
• The setfacl command
• The getfacl command
• The ACL mask

USER MANAGEMENT

• User accounts
• Files used in creating a user – the passwd, group and shadow files
• Adding a user
• Changing user details
• Deleting a user
• User group maintenance
• Password administration
• Local Login control
• Remote Login control
• Login logs
• The wall command
• The message of the day
• Controlling the amount of disk space accessible to users using quotas

BACKUP AND RECOVERY

• Backup overview
• Backup and restore utilities overview
• Tape device names
• The mt utility – retentsion, rewind, space forward or backward and status
• The ufsdump and ufsrestore utilities
• ufs snapshots

MANAGING THE PRINT ENVIRONMENT

• The print service
• Print service files
• Printer configuration with lpadmin
• Line printer commands – lpshut, lpsched, accept, reject, enable, disable, lpmove lpusers, lpstat, lp, cancel

Solaris 10 System Administration – Part II

NAMING SERVICES

• DNS Server and Client Setup
• NIS Servers and Clients
• Setting up NIS Servers and Clients
• NIS+ Overview
• LDAP Overview and Setting up an LDAP Client
• The Name Service Switch Configuration Files
• Name Service Cache Daemon

NFS/CACHE FS

• Network File System (NFS)
• NFS Server
• NFS Client
• /etc/dfs/dfstab File
• NFS Client Configuration
• Troubleshooting NFS
• Cache File System (Cachefs)
• Creating a Cache File System
• Adding/Removing Cache File System
• NFS Logging – user access

AUTOMOUNT

• Automount Maps
• Registering Changes for Automount
• automount -v

SOLARIS VOLUME MANAGER (SVM)

• RAID
• Volume Management Operations
• metadevices
• State Database Replicas
• SVM Commands and Files
• Creating State Database Replicas
• Creating a Disk Concatenation
• Creating a Concatenation of two disk slices
• Creating and Managing Mirrors
• Creating File Systems on Volumes
• Deleting a Metadevice
• Dynamically Growing Existing File Systems

MANAGING SWAP SPACE

• Configuring Swap Space
• Adding a Swap File on an Existing File System
• Disabling Swap Space

JUMPSTART

• Automatic Installation
• Principles of JumpStart
• Server Setup for JumpStart
• Configuring NIS to Support JumpStart
• Configuring Non NIS Server for JumpStart
• Rules File
• Class File
• Check Utility
• Setting up DHCP for Intel clients
• Jumpstart troubleshooting

LIVE UPGRADE OVERVIEW

• Live Upgrade description
• Basic procedures
• lucreate and luupdate commands
• lucativate an lustatus commands
• Live Upgrade Example

DUMP FILE CONFIGURATION

• Dump File Definition
• System Crash Dumps
• Core Dump Configuration

SYSLOG

• syslog Configuration
• The M4 Utility
• Editing the syslog.conf File
• Logging Telnet, FTP and other Networking Daemon
• Testing syslogd Logging

ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROL (RBAC)

• Traditional Unix Security vs RBAC
• The RBAC Security Model
• Configuring RBAC Examples

ZONES

• Zone Configuration Settings and Characteristics
• Creating Zones
• Managing the Zone State
• Zone System Processes

Solaris Training Course Highlights

1) Our Training Center batch sizes are generally very small size 3-5 members OR 1 to 1 also, so students receive direct, hands-on training from us.

2) 100% practical training only. It is not a slide show training program / theory class program. 

3) At the end of this class, definitely you will refer your colleagues / friends / relatives for our training.

4) Conducting regularly online Solaris training for US peoples in all time zones (PST,CST,EST,HST,MST)

5) Installation of Softwares in your desktop / laptop will be done.

6) Will be provided self evaluation testing software, exam simulator, dumps & books with this training.

7) Continuous support is provided for any of your on-site problems. Assistance will be provided and you will be recommended to some of IT development firms.

Why Enroll with IICT for Solaris Training Course ?

1) Two days free trial - If candidate likes this course, these days are adjusted in his actual schedule.

2) Live Project Exposure of Fortune companies.

3) Training by Subject Matter experts from CMM Level 5 companies

4) Both Online and Classroom Training offered at Solaris

5) Our basic course worth more than the advanced course of other institutes/freelancers.

6) Free Interview preparations.

7) 100% free assistance for Solaris certifications.

8) Practical and Hands on Training for Solaris Course .

9) 100 % guarantee in succeeding the certification at affordable fees.

10) Also provide online training to students of foreign countries.

Solaris Trainer Profile

• More than 10+ Years of Experience.
• Trained more than 5000+ students in a year.
• Strong Theoretical & Practical Knowledge.
• Solaris Certified Professionals with High Grade.
• Well connected with Hiring HRs in multinational companies.
• Expert level Subject Knowledge and fully up-to-date on real-world industry applications.
• Trainers have Experienced on multiple real-time projects in their Industries.
• Our Trainers are working in multinational companies such as CTS, TCS, HCL Technologies, ZOHO, Birlasoft, IBM, Microsoft, HP, Scope, Philips Technologies etc

Solaris Placement Training

• More than 5000+ students Trained
• 2000+ students Placed
• 1100+ Interviews Organaized
• Strong Theoretical & Practical Knowledge
• Solaris certified Professionals

Solaris Training Batch Size

Regular Batch ( Morning, Day time & Evening)

Seats Available : 6 (maximum)

Weekend Training Batch( Saturday, Sunday & Holidays)

Seats Available : 8 (maximum)

Fast Track batch

Seats Available : 7 (maximum)

Solaris Training Duration

Regular Classes( Morning, Day time & Evening)

Duration : 6 weeks

Weekend Training Classes( Saturday, Sunday & Holidays)

Duration : 8 Weeks

Fast Track Training Program( 3+ hours classes daily)

Duration : within 4 weeks