Solaris Introduction — A 2-Day Course

 Open Public Course Closed In-House Course

Synopsis

This comprehensive two-day course aims to equip the novice Solaris/UNIX user with all the skills necessary to navigate the system and make productive use of the tools available, including the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) Windows system, the vi editor and essential Solaris/UNIX commands. It also forms a good grounding for the power user or administrator who will go on to take other courses

This course is suitable for Solaris 10 (or any previous version) on Sun or PC (Intel) platforms. Most topics are also relevant to other versions of Unix, for example Irix, HPUX, Ultrix, and AIX. Our tutors will be able to advise which features are Solaris-specific as they present the course.

Prerequisites

This course is suitable for new computer users and those who are using Solaris or UNIX for the first time. Previous experience with an interactive computer system is desirable but not essential. If you have previous experience of any other version(s) of Unix, the follow up courses described in the next paragraph may be more appropriate. Please call for advice if in doubt.

Follow-up

We offer an extensive range of Solaris courses. A natural follow-up to this Introduction course would be the Solaris Utilities and Shell Programming course (suitable for those who wish to become proficient with Solaris utilities and Bourne/Korn shell programming) course. If you are responsible for looking after day-to-day administration, then we can offer a very comprehensive range of Solaris 10 Systems Administration courses, right up to Advanced levels:

• Solaris 10 Administration Part 1
• Solaris 10 Administration Part 2
• Solaris 10 Advanced Administration

For those involved in administrating networks, our Solaris 10 Network Administration course would be ideal, and leads to the Solaris Certified Network Administrator CX-310-302 exam.

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Contents

Solaris / UNIX Overview

• What are Solaris and Unix?
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Basic command examples
• Other versions of Unix
• Future of Unix
• Logistics and support

Getting Started

• Logging in and out
• Basic Window system (CDE) use
• Keyboard basics
• Files, directories and path names
• Creating and examining files
• Effective use of directories
• Moving, copying and removing files
• Basic system password security
• Answerbook Documentation and the man command
• Common problems
• Brief overview of the new GNOME window system

The vi Editor

• Invoking vi
• Insert and Append
• Moving around the text
• Deleting text
• Change operators
• Other insert operators
• Searching for text; Search and replace
• Saving and quitting

The Next Stage

• Introduction to UNIX shells
• Shell interaction, including: Re-direction and piping
• Shell metacharacters
• The history mechanism, and command line editing facilities
• The shell quoting mechanism
• Setting up and using aliases
• Process control
• More complex copying and moving
• Protecting files and directories
• Shell variables and setting up the environment
• Environment variables
• Introduction to Solaris utilities
• Halting the workstation

Common Desktop Environment

• A thorough examination of the major tools available, such as the Front Panel, File Manager, Applications Manager and the Help system
• Customising the Workspace and setting basic user preferences

Introduction To Networking

• Introduction to network concepts
• Ethernet Overview
• Network basic commands (including logging in to other machines)
• Network File System (NFS) - overview, benefits and uses
• Web browsers and web servers technical overview