System Admin Part I and II Fast Track Accelerated (SA-420-FT)

Course Description

The Solaris 10 System Administration Fast Track Training Program provides students with a 10 hour per day immersion course. Through a combination of detailed content, lab exercises and top notch presentations, students will be immersed in the world of Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris OS) Administration, Parts I and II.This immersion course supports the following 2 courses:System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System Part 1 (SA-200-S10):The System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System, Part 1 course gets you further engaged with the most efficient, secure, and reliable operating system ever built. This course gives you direct experience with the most essential system administration tasks in the Solaris 10 OS. You will be instructed in crucial system management skills including: managing local disk devices, managing UFS file systems, installing and removing Solaris packages and patches, performing system boot procedures. The course also covers user and security administration, managing network printers and system processes, and performing system backups and restores.System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System Part 2 (SA-202-S10):The System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System, Part 2 course expands your mastery of the most advanced operating system on the planet: Solaris 10. This course provides students with hands on experience working with more complex and integrated administration concepts, and builds upon the Part 1 course. Students will be instructed in essential system administration skills including: configuring network interfaces, managing swap configurations, crash dumps, and core files. The course also covers configuring NFS and AutoFS as well as system messaging, managing storage volumes and ZFS file systems, and setting up naming services and managing Solaris Zones. LAB INFORMATION: The hands on labs offered in this course may involve accessing equipment that resides at a location other than where the training is delivered.Students who can benefit from this course:System Administrators who are preparing to perform essential system administration procedures in the Solaris OS

Skills Gained

• Manage file systems
• Perform system boot procedures
• Perform user and security administration
• Manage network printers and system processes
• Perform system backups and restores
• Describe network interface configuration
• Describe Sun Connection services
• Manage swap configurations
• Manage core dumps
• Configure NFS and AutoFS

Who Can Benefit

• System Administrator

Prerequisites

• Perform basic UNIX tasks
• Understand basic UNIX commands
• Use the vi text editor
• Interact with a windowing system

Syllabus

SA-200-S10 Course Content

Module 1 - Introducing the Solaris 10 OS Directory Hierarchy

• Describe / (root) subdirectories
• Describe file components
• Describe file types
• Use hard links

Module 2 - Managing Local Disk Devices

• Describe the basic architecture of a disk
• Describe the naming conventions for devices
• List devices
• Reconfigure devices
• Perform hard disk partitioning
• Manage disk labels
• Describe the Solaris Management Console
• Partition a disk by using the Solaris Management Console

Module 3 - Managing Solaris OS File Systems

• Describe Solaris OS file systems
• Create a new ufs file system
• Check the file system using the fsck command
• Resolve file system inconsistencies
• Monitor file system use

Module 4 - Performing Mounts and Unmounts

• Identify mounting basics
• Perform mounts
• Perform unmounts
• Access a mounted diskette or CD-ROM
• Restrict access to a mounted diskette or CD-ROM
• Access a diskette or CD-ROM without Volume Management (vold)

Module 5 - Installation Requirements for the Solaris 10 OS

• Identify fundamentals of DVD installation
• Solaris 10 OS installation and upgrade options
• Hardware requirements for Solaris OS installation

Module 6 - Performing Solaris 10 OS Package Administration

• Describe the fundamentals of package administration
• Administer packages using the command-line interface

Module 7 - Managing Software Patches on the Solaris 10 OS

• Describe the fundamentals of patch administration
• Install and remove patches and patch clusters

Module 8 - Executing Boot PROM Commands

• Identify boot programmable read-only memory (PROM) fundamentals
• Use basic boot PROM commands
• Identify the system's boot device
• Create and remove custom device aliases
• View and change nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) parameters from the shell
• Interrupt an unresponsive system

Module 9 - Using GRUB

• Introduction to GRUB
• Influencing boot behavior with GRUB

Module 10 - Performing Boot and Shutdown Procedures

• Describe the features of the Service Management Facility
• Identify run level fundamentals
• Compare run levels and SMF milestones
• Identify the phases of the boot process
• Use SMF administrative commands
• Control boot processes
• Perform system shutdown procedures

Module 11 - Performing User Administration

• Describe user administration fundamentals
• Manage user accounts
• Manage initialization files

Module 12 - Introducing System Security

• Monitor system access
• Switch users on a system
• Control system access
• Restrict access to data in files

Module 13 - Configuring and Using Printer Services

• Identify network printing fundamentals
• Configure printer services
• Administer printer services
• Start and stop the line printer (LP) print service
• Specify a destination printer
• Use the LP print service

Module 14 - Controlling System Processes

• View system processes
• Kill frozen processes
• Schedule an automatic one-time execution of a command
• Schedule an automatic recurring execution of a command

Module 15 - Performing File System Backups

• Identify the fundamentals of backups
• Back up an unmounted file system

Module 16 - Performing File System Restores

• Restore ufs file systems
• Explain disaster recovery fundamentals

Module 17 - Backing Up a Mounted File System With a UFS Snapshot

• Create a UFS snapshot
• Back up the snapshot file

SA-202-S10 Course Content

Module 1 - Describing Interface Configuration

• Control and monitor network interfaces
• Configure Internet Protocol Version 4 (IPv4) interfaces at boot time

Module 2 - Describing the Client-Server Model

• Describe client-server processes
• Start server processes

Module 3 - Introducing Sun Connection Services

• Describe signed packages and patches
• Introduce Sun Connection
• Describe Sun Connection modes
• Using Update Manager
• Installing updates with Update Manager
• Administering patches from the command line

Module 4 - Managing Swap Configuration

• Describe virtual memory
• Configure swap space

Module 5 - Managing Crash Dumps and Core Files

• Manage crash dump behavior
• Manage core file behavior

Module 6 - Configuring NFS

• Describe the benefits of NFS
• Describe the fundamentals of the NFS distributed file system
• Manage an NFS server
• Manage an NFS client
• Enable the NFS server logging
• Manage NFS with the Solaris Management Console storage folder tools
• Troubleshoot NFS errors

Module 7 - Configuring AutoFS

• Describe the fundamentals of the AutoFS file system
• Use automount maps

Module 8 - Describing RAID and the Solaris Volume Manager Software

• Describe RAID
• Describe Solaris Volume Manager software concepts

Module 9 - Configuring Solaris Volume Manager Software

• Describe Solaris Volume Manager software concepts
• Build a RAID-0 (concatenated) volume
• Build a RAID-1 (mirror) volume for the root (/) file system

Module 10 - Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

• Describe RBAC fundamentals
• Describe component interaction within RBAC
• Manage RBAC by using the Solaris Management Console
• Manage RBAC by using the command line

Module 11 - Configuring System Messaging

• Describe the fundamentals of the syslog function
• Configure the /etc/syslog.conf file
• Configure syslog messaging
• Use the Solaris Management Console log viewer

Module 12 - Using Name Services

• Describe the name service concept
• Describe the name service switch file /etc/nsswitch.conf
• Describe the name service cache daemon (nscd)
• Get name service information

Module 13 - Configuring Name Service Clients

• Configure a DNS client
• Configure an LDAP client

Module 14 - Configuring the Network Information Service (NIS)

• Describe NIS fundamentals
• Configure the name service switch file
• Describe NIS security
• Configure an NIS domain
• Build custom NIS maps
• Troubleshoot NIS

Module 15 - Introduction to Zones

• Identify the different zones features
• Understand how and why zone partitioning is used
• Configure zones
• Install zones
• Boot zones

Module 16 - Introduction to the ZFS File System

• Describe ZFS and its related terms
• Understand components of a storage pool
• Create and destroy storage pools
• Query storage pool status
• Create and destroy ZFS file systems
• Manage ZFS properties
• Mount and unmount ZFS file systems
• Work with snapshots and clones
• Use ZFS datasets with Solaris zones