Solaris 10 Systems Administration Part 2 — A 2-Day Course

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Synopsis

This two-day course is designed to cover the essential network administration tasks confronting today's Sun network systems administrators, and is an extension to our Solaris Systems Administration Part 1 course which covers all the non-network issues. This course covers networking from initial connection through basic commands, security, monitoring and up to Network File System (NFS) and the Network Information Service (NIS), with full hands-on experience at all stages. The use of the Solaris Management Console tool is included.

This course, combined with the Solaris Advanced Systems Administration course, is comparable with the Sun SA-202-S10 (now PK-SA-202A-S10) course and leads to the Solaris Certified Administrator (Part 2) exam. Compared by price, our combined courses are 41% less than Sun's.

Our Solaris courses are suitable training for Solaris Certification

Prerequisites

Knowledge of Solaris up to a level taught in our Introduction to Solaris and Solaris Systems Administration Part 1 courses is important. Please call if you require any advice.

Follow-ups

This course is part of a program which can lead you to Solaris Certification Combining this course with the Solaris Advanced Systems Administration prepares you for the Solaris Certified Administrator Part 2 exam.

Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices

Outine Course Contents

Introduction to Ethernet and Networking

• Overview
• Simplest Ethernet
• Ethernet options
• The ISO/OSI 7 layer model

The IP network

• IP addresses, sockets and ports, multicast addresses
• Hardware requirements/options
• Twisted pair & fibre optic
• Facts and Figures
• Troubleshooting

Network Configuration

• Client/server concepts, processes and control
• Configuring a machines IPv4 interfaces manually for network connection, with many ifconfig examples
• Understanding Internet Address classes and CIDR, and formulating Internet addresses
• Configuring logical interfaces
• Multipathing configuration and operation (Failover and load spreading)
• Configuring an Internetwork Router
• Examples of route commands for manual routing, and persistent routes
• in.routed for dynamic routing
• Subnets and netmasks
• Network basic commands and the associated security files
• Running GUI programs using X-Windows facilities
• Network daemons
• Inetd. and SMF
• The inetadm and inetconv commands
• TCP wrappers
• Network Monitoring utilities (snoop, netstat, traceroute, nmap, ethereal, etc)

Network File System (NFS) and AutoFS

• Overview
• Benefits and uses of NFS
• NFS Installation
• NFS Administration
• Sharing file systems
• The mount command
• NFS security
• NFS logging
• NFS strategies
• Introduction and basic use of the automounter (AutoFS)
• Using SMC with NFS
• NFSV4 features

SAMBA Server Overview

A brief overview of this powerful and impressive free open-source server now included with Solaris 10, which effectively turns a Solaris machine (or other UNIX/Linux machine) into a Windows NT server. A working SAMBA installation will be created, with graphical configuration using swat via a web browser.

Overview of Solaris name services

• NIS. NIS+, LDAP and DNS - how they work, advantages and disadvantages of each
• The Name Service Switch and /etc/nsswitch.conf
• The Name Service Cache Daemon (nscd)

Network Information Service (NIS)

• Introduction
• Creating a fully-functioning NIS service
• Using the ypinit command to create Master and Slave servers
• Updating the NIS information from the command line
• Using SMC with NIS to manage users, groups and hosts
• Adding NIS clients
• NIS file policies
• Creating and using netgroups with /etc/netgroup
• Adding your own data to NIS
• Modifying the NIS Makefile
• Disabling NIS

DNS and LDAP clients

• Configuring clients to use DNS and LDAP name services

Introduction to the Apache web server

• Major Components
• Browser invocation and configuration
• Apache Web Server installation and activation
• Installing a custom web site
• Enabling the Jakarta Tomcat java facility
• Examples of common Apache configuration directives

Setting up Electronic Mail

• Overview
• How to use mail
• Mail routing
• Files and programs involved
• Setting up mail - local network
• Name Service considerations
• Using NFS to mount mail boxes
• Testing mail delivery
• Mail aliases
• External links and connecting to the Internet

Note: Several additional topics are covered on this course compared to Sun's, such as Samba, Apache, routing and Email.