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Sun Systems Fault Analysis Workshop

Length: 5 Days                  

Course Description: 
The Sun Systems Fault Analysis Workshop teaches students fault analysis skills needed to support the Sun computing environment. This course provides classroom instruction and provides hands-on experience in the workshops.

Prerequisite: 
The student should have taken a Solaris administration course or have 6 months of equivalent experience in Solaris system administration or system maintenance.

Recommendation Statement:
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to demonstrate six months of field system administration or system maintenance experience in Sun environments.

Upon completion of this course the student will be able to:

• Describe the fault analysis and diagnosis methodology
• Describe the OpenBoot PROM (OBP) components, features, and diagnostics
• Enable and monitor POST diagnostics
• Describe OBP device tree and boot sequence
• Perform Solaris OE diagnostics
• Diagnose faults using online tools
• Describe types of major system failures
• Analyze core dumps the mdb utility

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