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