Network Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System (SA-399)
The Network Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System (Solaris OS) course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform network administration tasks, such as configuration and troubleshooting of a local area network (LAN). This course also provides hands-on experience with topics, such as Internet Protocol (IP) routing, Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and IP version 6 (IPv6).
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Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are experienced system administrators who are or will be responsible for administering Sun systems in a networked environment that includes LANs and the Solaris OS.Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:- Install, configure, and maintain a Solaris OS product line server
- Change system run levels
- Read and edit system resource files
Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:- Configure routing and routing tables
- Configure subnet masks, including variable length masks
- Configure DHCP clients and servers
- Configure DNS
- Configure a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server and client
- Configure a system as an IPv6 host or router
- Configure IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels
- Troubleshoot network problems
Related Courses
Before:
After:
- Solaris System Performance Management (SA-400)
- Administering Security on the Solaris Operating System (SC-300)
- LDAP Design and Deployment (IN-350)
Course Content
Module 1 - Introducing the TCP/IP Model
- Describe network model fundamentals
- Describe the layers of the TCP/IP model
- Describe basic peer-to-peer communication and related protocols
Module 2 - Introducing LANs and Their Components
- Describe network topologies
- Describe LAN media
- Describe network devices
Module 3 - Describing Ethernet Interfaces
- Describe Ethernet concepts
- Describe Ethernet frames
- Use network utilities
Module 4 - Describing ARP and RARP
- Describe ARP
- Describe RARP
Module 5 - Configuring IP
- Describe the Internet layer protocols
- Describe the IP datagram
- Describe IP address types
- Describe subnetting and VLSMs
- Describe the interface configuration files
- Administer logical interfaces
Module 6 - Configuring Multipathing
- Increase network throughput and availability
- Implement multipathing
Module 7 - Configuring Routing
Configuring Routing
- Identify the fundamentals of routing
- Describe route table population
- Describe routing protocol types
- Describe the route table
- Configure static routing
- Configure dynamic routing
- Describe classless inter-domain routing (CIDR)
- Configure boot time routing
- Troubleshoot routing
Module 8 - Configuring IPv6
- Describe IPv6
- Describe IPv6 addressing
- Describe IPv6 autoconfiguration
- Describe IPv6 unicast address types
- Describe IPv6 multicast address types
- Enable IPv6
- Manage IPv6
- Configure IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels
- Configure IPv6 multipathing
Module 9 - Describing the Transport Layer
- Describe Transport layer fundamentals
- Describe UDP
- Describe TCP
- Describe TCP flow control
Module 10 - Configuring DNS
- Describe the DNS basics
- Configure the DNS server
- Troubleshoot the DNS server using basic utilities
Module 11 - Configuring DHCP
- Describe the fundamentals of DHCP
- Configure a DHCP server
- Configure and manage DHCP clients
- Configure for dynamic DNS
- Configure a DHCP server to support JumpStart clients
Module 12 - Configuring NTP
- Identify NTP basics
- Configure an NTP server
- Configure an NTP client
- Troubleshoot NTP
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