Solaris System Administration-2This course covers advanced filesystem management and using Solaris in a networked environment - 5 days. |
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Course Objectives
This course provides students with the skills necessary to administer Sun systems running Solaris 8 in a network environment. Students will be taught how to maintain Sun systems, configure and troubleshoot the Network File System (NFS), and configure the Network Information Service (NIS) environment.Course Content
| Introducing the Client-Server Relationship Client-server computing model within the Solaris 8 Operating Environment; Network capabilities. Introducing the Solaris Network Environment Network models; Seven-layer ISO/OSI model vs. four-layer TCP/IP model; Inter-relation between hostnames, IP addresses, and MAC addresses; Network configuration utilities: ifconfig -a, netstat -i and snoop -a commands. Solaris syslog Function of the syslogd daemon and the /etc/syslog.conf file; Extracting information from the /etc/syslog.conf file to identify the types of events; Alternative log location; Parsing messages to syslog. Introducing Disk Management Physical vs. virtual disks; Potential
advantages of virtual disk management application; Solstice DiskSuite
vs. Sun StorEdge Volume Manager; Main advantages of a concatenated
virtual file system and a striped virtual file system; Utilities
to create, check, and mount file systems; Installing the DiskSuite
applications; Use the DiskSuite applications to grow a file system
dynamically. Solaris Pseudo File Systems and Swap Space
Solaris RAM based file systems; Creating
and adding a swap file to the swap space; Removing a swap file. NFS Function of an NFS server and an NFS client;
Making resources available and unavailable for mounting; Providing
read and write Internet access to an NFS resource through a web
browser; Sharing of resources (/etc/dfs/dfstab); Mounting a resource
from another system; The /etc/vfstab file: mounting resources on
an NFS client; NFS control commands: mountall, umountall, shareall,
and unshareall. AutoFS Benefits of using the automount; The purpose
of each automount map type; Setting up automount to read a direct
map; Restarting the automountd daemon.
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CacheFS File Systems Role Based Access Control Building an association between users
and roles with authorisations and execution profiles; Defining authorisations
and their attributes; Listing a profile's assigned authorisations;
Privileged operations that are assigned to a profile; Help files
associated with profiles and authorisations; Configuring a user's
execution profile to allow access to a specified subset of system
administrator privileges. Solaris Management Console and AdminSuite
Solstice AdminSuite capabilities; Solstice
AdminSuite software Installation; Using the following AdminSuite
tools: User Manager, Group Manager, and Serial Port Manager. Naming Services Overview DNS concepts; DNS vs. NIS vs. NIS+ services;
Objectives of a NIS+ domain; Directory services vs. name services;
Name service switch process and configuration. NIS NIS components, master server, slave server,
and client; Matching selected NIS processes to their respective
yp daemons; Structure of the make utility and makefile; Configuring
a NIS master, slave, and client; Accessing and testing the NIS service;
Adding custom maps; Adding/removing slave servers; Delineate the
steps required to change the NIS master; Move source files from
/etc to /etc/nis. JumpStart - Automatic Installation Features of JumpStart; Main components for setting up a network to use automatic installation; Setting up the network to automatically provide the information necessary to configure a system; Creating an install server on the network; Creating a boot server on a subnet; Creating a configuration directory with a customised rules file and class files; Adding install clients to install servers and boot servers; Booting install clients. |
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