Students who can benefit from this course include system administrators who are preparing to perform essential system administration procedures in the Solaris OS.

• 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
• Install software
• 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 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 the Solaris OS File System

• Describe Solaris OS file systems
• Create a new ufs file system
• Check the file system by using the fsck command
• Resolve file system inconsistencies
• Monitor file system use

Module 4 - Performing Mounts and Unmounts

• Identify mounting fundamentals
• Perform mounts
• Perform unmounts
• Access mounted diskettes or CD-ROMs
• Restrict access to a mounted diskette or CD-ROM
• Access a diskette or CD-ROM without Volume Management

Module 5 - Installing the Solaris 9 Operating System

• Identify the fundamentals of CD-ROM installation
• Install the Solaris 9 OS from a CD-ROM

Module 6 - Performing Solaris 9 OS Package Administration

• Describe the fundamentals of package administration
• Administer packages by using the command-line interface

Module 7 - Managing Software Patches on the Solaris 9 OS

• Describe the fundamentals of patch administration
• Install and remove patches

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 theshell
• Interrupt an unresponsive system

Module 9 - Performing Boot and Shutdown Procedures

• Identify run level fundamentals
• Identify the phases of the boot process
• Control boot processes
• Perform system shutdown procedures

Module 10 - Performing User Administration

• Describe user administration fundamentals
• Manage user accounts
• Manage initialization files

Module 11 - Performing System Security

• Monitor system access
• Switch users on a system
• Control system access
• Restrict access to data in files

Module 12 - Configuring Printer Services

• Identify network printing fundamentals
• Configure printer services
• Administer printer services
• Start and stop the line printer (LP) print service

Module 13 - Using Print Commands

• Specify a destination printer
• Use the LP print service

Module 14 - Controlling System Processes

• View system processes
• Clear 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