Training

Solaris Administration

Solaris Administration is a four day taught course, which expands on knowledge gained in Introduction to Solaris, to provide the student with useful skills in Solaris administration.

Course Outline

System Booting and Testing

• The OK-Prompt
• Testing at a Console
• Rebooting a Sun Workstation
• Testing the System
• Banner
• probe
• test all
• printenv and devalias
• Disabling the Network-Interface Error Message

Administering Disks

• Logical Device Names
• Partitions
• Crash Dumps
• Example
• Removable Devices
• Volume Management
• Floppy
• CD-ROM
• CD-R and CD-RW
• USB Memory Sticks
• Tapes
• Cloning a Disk
• Cloning Using Internal Disks
• Cloning Using a Crossover Cable
• Mirroring the Boot Disk with SDS

Swap Space

• Persistent Configuration in /etc/vfstab
• "Raw Partition" Versus Plain File
• Temporary Configuration

Installation and Maintenance

• Installation From CD
• Network Installation With Webstart Flash
• Step 1: Setting Up the Boot Server
• Step 2: Definition of Client Profiles
• Step 3: Modify Hosts, Ethers and Netmasks
• Step 4: Share /export/install
• Step 5: Add Clients
• Step 6: Installation of the Master Host
• Step 7: Installation of the Other Hosts
• Packages
• Patches

X-Server and CDE User Interface

• General Observations
• Customizing the Login Screen
• Startup With Multiple Screens, Xinerama, 24-Bit Color Depth
• Multi-Screen
• Xinerama
• 24-Bit Color Depth
• A User-Defined CDE Front Panel
• Actions
• Icons
• Front Panels

Frame Buffers and OpenGL

• fbconfig
• OpenGL
• Patch Matrix for Graphics

Administration

• Hosts
• Serial Ports
• Printers
• User Creation
• Shells and Environment Variables

Network Connections

• /etc-files
• Virtual Interfaces
• ifconfig
• Routing
• LDAP-Client
• DNS-Client
• DHCP-Client
• sys-unconfig
• 10 or 100 Mbit, Half- or Full-Duplex?
• Network Settings: Temporary vs. Persistent

Network File System

• NFS-Server
• NFS-Client
• Differences From Other Popular UNIX Systems
• Automounter

Tools

• Compiler
• GNU-Tools
• Apache
• StarOffice Software
• Netscape NavigatorT Browser
• Miscellaneous

Hint Collection

• Top Hints
• Analysis of the Hardware Configuration
• prtdiag
• prtconf / path_to_inst
• Sun Explorer Software
• Analysis of Runtime Data
• time/ptime
• top / prstat / ps
• vmstat / mpstat
• iostat
• sdtperfmeter, xcpustate, and sdtprocess
• 32-Bit or 64-Bit?
• Debugging
• Truss
• pstack, pmap, and so on
• snoop
• Common Pitfalls

Books and Web Sites

• Books
• Web Sites
• SunSolve

Course Notes

• Solaris Administration Course Notes

Related Material

• Google searching reference
• VI editor quick reference
• Solaris command line quick reference
• Solaris Open Boot PROM (OBP) quick reference