Solaris 7 System Administration I teaches students the essential tasks of standalone installation, file system management, backup, process control, user administration, and device management.

Students taking this class will gain the necessary knowledge and skills to perform these essential system administration tasks in the Solaris operating environment.

Who Should Attend:

System administrators tasked with performing essential system administration procedures in the Solaris operating environment.

Objectives:

Upon completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Discuss Sun's client-server environment and other important system administration terms and concepts
• Install the Solaris operating system on a standalone system including update patches
• Enable 64 capability on a stand-alone system
• Understand and perform booting and shutdown procedures and options
• Use the pkgadd command to add software packages
• Manage processes
• Add users to the system using both Admintool and command line methods
• Configure User Initialization files to provide a consistent login environment
• Understand boot protocols and options and be able modify EEPROM boot parameters
• Understand and change system states on the Solaris server
• Properly set file permissions using ACLs (Access Control Lists)
• Manage disk devices
• Install, configure, and troubleshoot a network printer
• Use the Solaris 7 device naming conventions to configure and name devices
• Monitor and mount file systems including CD-ROM and PC floppy devices
• Use the format utility to display information and set up disk partitions
• Perform backups and recovery
• Implement basic system security

Required Skills/Knowledge:

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

• Successfully interact with a Solaris system as an end-user
• Use the vi text editor
• Interact with a windowing syste