Solaris 10 System Administration I (200-S10)

To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Perform basic UNIX tasks
• Understand basic UNIX commands
• Use the vi text editor
• Interact with a windowing system

Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Manage file systems
• Perform system boot procedures
• Perform user and security administration
• Manage network printers and system processes
• Perform system backups and restores

Module 1 – Introducing the Solaris 10 OS Directory Hierarchy

• Describe / (root) subdirectories
• Describe file components
• Describe file types
• Use hard links
  
  Module 2 – Managing Local Disk Devices
  
  
• Describe the basic architecture of a disk
• Describe the naming conventions for devices
• List devices
• Reconfigure devices
• Perform hard disk partitioning
• Manage disk labels
• Describe the Solaris Management Console
• Partition a disk by using the Solaris Management Console
  
  Module 3 – Managing Solaris OS File Systems
  
  
• Describe Solaris OS file systems
• Create a new ufs file system
• Check the file system using the fsck command
• Resolve file system inconsistencies
• Monitor file system use
  
  Module 4 – Performing Mounts and Unmounts
  
  
• Identify mounting basics
• Perform mounts
• Perform unmounts
• Access a mounted diskette or CD-ROM
• Restrict access to a mounted diskette or CD-ROM
• Access a diskette or CD-ROM without Volume Management (vold)
  
  Module 5 – Installation Requirements for the Solaris 10 OS
  
  
• Identify fundamentals of DVD installation
• Solaris 10 OS installation and upgrade options
• Hardware requirements for Solaris OS installation
  
  Module 6 – Performing Solaris 10 OS Package Administration
  
  
• Describe the fundamentals of package administration
• Administer packages using the command-line interface
  
  Module 7 – Managing Software Patches on the Solaris 10 OS
  
  
• Describe the fundamentals of patch administration
• Install and remove patches and patch clusters
  
  Module 8 – Executing Boot PROM Commands
  
  
• Identify boot programmable read-only memory (PROM) fundamentals
• Use basic boot PROM commands
• Identify the system’s boot device
• Create and remove custom device aliases
• View and change nonvolatile random access memory (NVRAM) parameters from the shell
• Interrupt an unresponsive system
  
  Module 9 – Using GRUB
  
  
• Introduction to GRUB
• Influencing boot behavior with GRUB
  
  Module 10 – Performing Boot and Shutdown Procedures
  
  
• Describe the features of the Service Management Facility
• Identify run level fundamentals
• Compare run levels and SMF milestones
• Identify the phases of the boot process
• Use SMF administrative commands
• Control boot processes
• Perform system shutdown procedures
  
  Module 11 – Performing User Administration
  
  
• Describe user administration fundamentals
• Manage user accounts
• Manage initialization files
  
  Module 12 – Introducing System Security
  
  
• Monitor system access
• Switch users on a system
• Control system access
• Restrict access to data in files
  
  Module 13 – Configuring and Using Printer Services
  
  
• Identify network printing fundamentals
• Configure printer services
• Administer printer services
• Start and stop the line printer (LP) print service
• Specify a destination printer
• Use the LP print service
  
  Module 14 – Controlling System Processes
  
  
• View system processes
• Kill frozen processes
• Schedule an automatic one-time execution of a command
• Schedule an automatic recurring execution of a command
  
  Module 15 – Performing File System Backups
  
  
• Identify the fundamentals of backups
• Back up an unmounted file system
  
  Module 16 – Performing File System Restores
  
  
• Restore ufs file systems
• Explain disaster recovery fundamentals
  
  Module 17 – Backing Up a Mounted File System With a UFS Snapshot
  
  
• Create a UFS snapshot
• Back up the snapshot file