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Solaris 8 System Administration I

Length: 4 Days                   

Prerequisite: Solaris fundamentals course

Recommendation Statement:
It is assumed that the student has an understanding of UNIX.  You must be familiar with basic UNIX commands, and the VI editor. The Solaris fundamentals course is recommended.

Course Description: 
This course teaches basic topics in Solaris system administration.  The operating system will be Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8)- Sun's implementation of SystemV release4. The course is taught on a Sun Ultra System. The objective is to prepare the student for Administrering a Solaris 8 system.

This course meets all of the objectives for the Certified Solaris 8 System Administrator Examination – Part 1 (310-011).

         Note: This course is also available for Solaris 9, 7, and Solaris 2.6

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

• Discuss Sun's client-server environment and other important system administration terms and concepts.
• Understand boot protocols and options and modify EEPROM boot parameters
• Understand the OpenBoot environment
• Start up, change run levels, and shut down a system (shutdown, init, halt, reboot).
• Understanding and controlling processes
• Understand the root (/) and /usr directory components.
• Use data access control to enhance file security (chmod).
• Set file permissions using ACLs (access control lists)
• Use maintenance commands to simplify system administration (find, cron, at).
• Send mail from the command line.
• Use Administration Tool and the command line to add user accounts and groups, and to add and manage local and remote printers.
• Customizing the user environment (local and global)
• Configure and manage print services
• Print text files using the command line interface .
• Understand  the Solaris 8 device naming conventions
• Manage disk devices
• Understanding file systems
• Monitor and mount file systems
• Identify partitions and monitor disk space usage.
• Setup and verify partitions on disks using the format utility.
• Install the Solaris Operating Environment on a standalone system
• Install the operating system using WebStart
• Install and verify OS update patches
• Compress and send binary files (tar, compress uuencode).
• Load additional and unbundled software packages. 
• Maintain file systems (fsck).
• Setup system security.
• Auditing users
• Perform backup and restore procedures (ufsdump,ufsrestore, tar, cpio, pax).

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