Solaris 8 System Administration II (SA-288)

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Prerequisites

• Install the Solaris Operating System on a standalone system, including update patches
• Understand and perform booting and shutdown procedures and options
• Log in to a UNIX system and change passwords, add users, and set up file permissions
• Make directories, set up partitions, and manage files
• Use the Solaris Operating System device naming conventions to configure and name devices

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Skills Gained

• Identify and describe the files and commands used to control and monitor access to various machines in a network environment
• Set up event logging
• Administer disks using a volume-management utility
• Redirect all core dumps to a single coredump directory
• Configure NFS to support the client-server environment
• Use the automounter
• Set up and configure CacheFS file systems
• Use Solaris Management Console to perform administrative system management duties
• Set up a role
• Describe the various naming services: Domain Name System (DNS), NIS, Network Information System Plus (NIS+), and Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)
• Configure and administer the NIS environment
• Use JumpStart software to automate a Solaris Operating Environment installation

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Related Courses

Before:

• Solaris 8 System Administration I (SA-238)
• Shell Programming for System Administrators (SA-245)

After:

• Solaris 8 TCP/IP Network Admin (SA-389)
• Solaris System Performance Management (SA-400)

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Course Content

Module 1 - Introducing the Client-Server Relationship

• Describe the network capabilities of the Solaris 8 Operating System in terms of a client-server relationship
• List and define at least two types of servers used in the Solaris 8 network environment
• Describe the Sun Ray Appliance client-server relationship

Module 2 - Introducing the Solaris Network Environment

• Define the function of each layer within the seven-layer Open Systems Interconnect (OSI) model and the five-layer Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)/Internet Protocol (IP) model
• Describe the contents of various network control files
• Construct command strings to perform basic monitoring operations on an active network
• Start and stop network services using the command line

Module 3 - Solaris Operating System syslog()

• Configure syslog() message routing
• Modify log message priority and severity
• Determine the effect of the LOGHOST variable on syslog()
• Describe the two methods of starting the syslogd daemon
• Add entries to a system log using the logger utility

Module 4 - Introducing Disk Management

• List the three utilities used to create, check, and mount file systems
• Identify the physical path name differences between physical disks and virtual disks
• List the potential advantages between Solstice DiskSuite and Sun StorEdge Volume Manager software
• List the main advantages of using a concatenated virtual file system
• List the main advantage of using a striped virtual file system
• Install the Solstice DiskSuite applications
• Use the Solstice DiskSuite application to dynamically grow a file system

Module 5 - Solaris Pseudo File Systems and Swap Space

• Define the Solaris pseudo file system types
• Describe the relationship between system processes and the /proc directory
• Describe how the tmpfs file system improves performance
• Define an fdfs file system entry in the /etc/vfstab file
• Use the dumpadm program to display and configure system dump behavior
• Use the coreadm command to display and configure core file behavior
• Create and add a swap file or partition to the swap space

Module 6 - NFS

• Describe the functions of an NFS server and an NFS client
• Make resources available and unavailable for mounting
• Edit the /etc/dfs/dfstab file on an NFS server to enable automatic sharing of resources
• Display a server's available resources for mounting
• Mount a resource from another system
• Edit the /etc/vfstab file to mount resources on an NFS client
• Describe the function of these commands: mountall, umountall, shareall, and unshareall
• Describe and configure NFS logging

Module 7 - AutoFS

• List the benefits of using the automount utility
• Describe the purpose of each of the types of automount maps
• Configure the auto_master map to specify which direct, indirect, and special maps the automountd daemon reads
• Create the auto_direct map with the full path names and mount options for automatically mounting remote file resources
• Modify the auto_home map as an example of an indirect map providing a consistent view of home directories across the network, regardless of where the user is logged in

Module 8 - CacheFS File Systems

• Describe the CacheFS file system
• Use the appropriate commands to configure the CacheFS file system
• Use the appropriate commands to check the status and consistency of the CacheFS file system
• Set up CacheFS file system logging
• Describe the steps necessary to perform a check of the CacheFS file system
• List the steps to dismantle and delete a CacheFS file system

Module 9 - Solaris Management Console

• List the benefits of the Solaris Management Console and the SMC Toolbox Editor
• Configure access to multiple toolbox servers from the home server
• Open alternate toolboxes for Solaris Management Console access
• Add tools to the server toolbox application categories
• Insert a tool folder to contains legacy tools
• Embed legacy applications within the Solaris Management Console, to include command-line interfaces (CLIs), X applications (XAPPs), and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) Universal Resource Locators (URLs)
• Demonstrate the usage of the Solaris Management Applications (SMApps)

Module 10 - Role-Based Access Control

• Build an association between users and roles with authorizations and execution profiles
• Define authorizations and their attributes
• List a profile's assigned authorizations
• Define the privileged operations that are assigned to a profile
• Identify help files that are associated with profiles and authorizations
• Configure a user's execution profile to allow access to a specified subset of system administrator privileges

Module 11 - Naming Services Overview

• Describe the concept of a naming service
• List the available naming services
• Compare the functionality of naming services
• Describe the name service switch process, and determine which configuration is appropriate for your network

Module 12 - Network Information Service

• Describe the Network Information Service (NIS) components: master server, slave server, and client, and the NIS processes
• Configure an NIS master, slave, and client
• List the steps to add a new NIS map
• Use commands to update and propagate an NIS map

Module 13 - JumpStart - Automatic Installation

• List the main components for setting up a JumpStart network installation
• Set up boot services on a subnet using the setup_install_server script
• Describe the JumpStart client boot sequence
• List the files necessary to support JumpStart boot operations
• Describe the use of the sysidcfg file with and without name service support
• Set up a JumpStart installation server to provide the Solaris 8 Operating System with the software necessary to install clients
• Describe the use of the add_to_install_server and modify_install_server scripts
• Add install clients to the install servers and boot servers
• Create a configuration server with customized rules and class files
• Use the pfinstall command to test configuration and installation files
• Boot install clients
• Configure NIS name service support for the JumpStart program

Module 14 - Solaris Administrator Workshop

• Install the Solaris 8 Operating System using Solaris Web Start software
• Partition a disk to a specified format
• Build new file systems and mount file systems
• Configure the automounter
• Set up an NIS domain
• Create additional swap space
• Set up an NFS mount
• Configure Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) to allow a non-root user to shut down a system
• Create a local or a network printer

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