Unix - Sun Solaris Administration

SUN-SOLARIS-10(SA-1) System Administration Paper 1

Pre-Requisites: BASIC UNIX COMMANDS

SYSTEM CONCEPTS:

Understanding different hosts in Solaris Environment

Understanding types of servers and clients in Solaris Environment

ADMINISTRATION AND CONFIGURATION OF CDE:

Understanding CDE environment on Sun-Solaris

Installation of Sun-Solaris on SPARC and INTEL

Installation on standalone

Network installation

FILE SYSTEM:

Introduction to file system

Understanding different types of file systems

Creating a file system using format command

Converting the file system to UFS using newfs

Mounting and un-mounting file systems

Understanding vfstab and mnttab files

Inconsistency checking using fsck

Troubleshooting file systems with fsck

USER ADMINISTRATION:

Understanding types of groups

Creating groups, modifying and deleting

Creating users, modifying and deleting

Administration of initialization files and customizing

Monitoring of users

Understanding password aging

Advance file permissions using ACL

RBAC with RBAC and administer can assign privileged functions to specific user accounts

System security

Troubleshooting

BOOT PROCESS:

Understanding booting process on SPARC & INTEL

Understanding commands under OK prompt

RUN LEVELS:

Understanding different types of run levels

Understanding default run level and customizing

Understanding R-C scripts

Adding and modifying run control scripts ( R-C scripts )

Understanding different types of shutdown commands

Changing the init phases

Troubleshooting

VOLUME MANAGEMENT:

Understanding different types of file systems like UFS, PCFS, NFS, HSFS, CACHEFS, AUTOFS, UDFS, LOFS

Mounting and un-mounting CD’s

Troubleshooting

BACKUP &RECOVERY:

Understanding types of backups

Understanding various file backups using tar, cpio, dd

Creation of snap shot for backups

Understanding backup levels and backup strategies

Understanding file system backups using ufsdump, ufsrestore

Performing full / incremental / cumulative backups

Performing local / remote backup restore

SCHEDULE JOBS:

At jobs

Cron jobs

DISK QUOTAS:

Creating quotas for users by allocating disk space for user home directory

SWAP MANAGEMENT:

Adding internal and external swap areas

Creating static and dynamic swap swap areas

PROCESS CONTROL:

Understanding standalone daemons and transient daemons

PACKAGE ADMINISTRATION:

Adding the packages, verifying the packages and checking the packages, pkgadd , pkgrm, pkginfo, pkgchk, pkgparam, spooling commands.

SUN-SOLARIS-10(SA-2) System Administration Paper 2

NETWORKING TOOLS:

Understanding and implementing ping, telnet, rlogin, rcp, rsh, rup and ftp, ssh & scp

Understanding and communicating remote Unix servers using rlogin

Implementing trusted relationship between users of remote servers

NETWORK FILE SYSTEM(NFS):

Understanding and configuring NFS server and NFS client

Understanding different files, daemons, commands at NFS server and NFS client

Configuring auto-mount with direct and indirect mapping

Configuring cachefs over NFS with statistics

FTP SERVER:

Configuring ftp server with real and anonymous users

Understanding security files

NAMING INFORMATION SERVICE(NIS):

Naming services overview

Understanding network information service (NIS)

Configuring NIS master , NIS slave, NIS clients

Understanding difference between NIS and NIS+

SOLARIS SYSLOG:

Managing syslog messages

Exploring different facilities and error messages

ADVANCE INSTALLATION:

Introducing delegates

Working with Events

Introducing Generics

Generics and Arrays

ADVANCE INSTALLATION:

Custom jumpstart installation

DOMAIN NAMING SERVICE(DNS):

Understanding domain naming service

Configuring primary DNS server, Secondary DNS server, and DNS clients

DHCP:

Configuring DHCP server and DHCP client

SAMBA SERVER:

Configuring samba server for sharing files between Unix to Unix and Unix to windows

Configuring samba web administration tool(swat)

SOLARIS VOLUME MANAGER:

Configuring DHCP server and DHCP client

SAMBA SERVER:

Introduction to SVM

Introduction to online disk 4.2 version(ODS), configuration of solstice online disk suite(4.2)

Implementation of online disk suite with raid levels (0, 1,0+1 &5)

Extending meta device size with growfs

Troubleshooting