Course Description

The Solaris Operating System Administration for Experienced HP-UX and Tru64 Administrators course provides students with the necessary knowledge and skills to perform core system administration tasks in the the Solaris 10 Operating System (Solaris 10 OS). This course describes key system administration tasks in the Solaris 10 OS, and identifies corresponding HP-UX or Tru64 operating system elements. This course is intended to provide experienced HP-UX and Tru64 administrators with information about core Solaris concepts, and focuses on practical experience implementing Solaris features through lab exercises.

Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course should already be familiar with standard system and network administration tasks in their native UNIX environment. This course provides the skills necessary to adapt standard HP-UX or Tru64 administration skills to Solaris 10 equivalents.

Prerequisites

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Use the basic UNIX command set
• Manage files and directories
• Use the vi editor
• Control the user work environment
• Archive files
• Use remote commands
• Manage file systems
• Install operating system software
• Perform system boot procedures
• Perform user and security administration
• Perform system backups and restores
• Describe basic RAID concepts

Skills Gained

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

• Install the Solaris operating system and administer software packages and patches
• Demonstrate familiarity with Boot PROM commands
• Perform boot and shutdown procedures on a Solaris system
• Reconfigure devices on a Solaris system
• Administer user accounts, including configuration of Role-Based Access Control using the command line and the Solaris Management Console (SMC)
• Demonstrate proficiency using the Solaris Volume Manager
• Describe special file systems available in Solaris, and configure NFS and Autofs
• Understand basic concepts related to Solaris Zones
• Configure DNS and LDAP clients on Solaris systems
• Implement NIS on Solaris systems

Course Outline

Module 1 - Overview

• Understand how different versions of the UNIX platform were developed
• Define major similarities and differences between Solaris and other variants of the UNIX platform

Module 2 - Installing the Solaris OS

• State different installation methods available
• Explain hardware requirements for Solaris installation
• Demonstrate how to install Solaris OS using CDROM and DVD

Module 3 - Performing Package and Patch Administration

• Identify the packages installed on a system
• Display information for a package
• Add a package to the system
• Use a spool directory to add packages to a system
• Remove a package from the system
• Check the status of current patches
• Access patches from the web using SunSolve
• Install a patch
• Remove a patch

Module 4 - Executing Boot PROM Commands

• Describe boot programmable read-only memory (PROM)
• List the basic boot PROM commands
• Use probe commands
• Describe nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM)
• Create custom device aliases
• Use the eeprom command to change NVRAM parameters
• Compare use of the Boot PROM and the Device Configuration Assistant

Module 5 - The System Boot Process

• Identify the phases in the boot process
• Control the boot process
• Describe the Solaris Management Facility (SMF) structures and service identifiers and states

Module 6 - Managing Local Disk Devices and Device Configuration

• Manage a disk
• List the devices in a system (format, devfsadm, reconfiguration boot)
• Modify the size of a disk slice
• Locate and view the volume table of contents (VTOC)
• Create a file system
• Mount a file system

Module 7 - Using the Solaris Management Console (SMC)

• Describe the components of SMC
• Use the Toolbox Editor of SMC
• Use the Process tool of SMC
• Use the Scheduled Jobs tool of SMC

Module 8 - Performing User Administration in the Solaris OS

• Describe user administration
• Manage user accounts using SMC
• Manage user accounts using the command-line interface (CLI)

Module 9 - Configuring Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) in the Solaris OS

• Describe the fundamentals of RBAC
• Manage RBAC using SMC
• Manage RBAC using the CLI

Module 10 - Configuring the Solaris Volume Manager Software

• Describe state database replicas
• Build a mirror of the root (/) file system
• Remove a mirror of the root (/) file system

Module 11 - Managing Swap Configuration

• Describe virtual memory
• Describe the swapfs file system
• Manage swap space

Module 12 - Configuring NFS

• Describe pseudo file systems and in-memory file systems
• Describe the Network File System (NFS)
• Manage the NFS server
• Manage the NFS client
• Enable the NFS server logging
• Troubleshoot NFS errors

Module 13 - Configuring AutoFS

• Describe the features of AutoFS
• Configure AutoFS

Module 14 - Managing System Dumps in the Solaris OS

• Describe system dumps in the Solaris OS
• Manage crash dumps in the Solaris OS
• Manage core dumps in the Solaris OS

Module 15 - Introducing Zones

• Introducing Zones
• Zone concepts
• Configuring Zones
• Using the zoneadm command

Module 16 - Naming Services Overview

• List the available naming services
• Compare the functionality of naming services
• Describe the name service switch process
• Select the appropriate naming service for your network configuration

Module 17 - Network Information Service (NIS)

• Configure an NIS master, NIS slave, and NIS client
• List the steps to add a new NIS map
• Use commands to update and propagate a NIS map

Module 18 - Configuring Custom JumpStart Software

• Describe the JumpStart software
• Configure a JumpStart server
• Jumpstart alternatives

Module 19 - Performing Flash Installation

• Describe the Flash installation procedure
• Create a Flash archive
• Use a Flash archive for the installation