Topic summary

• 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
• 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
  • An thorough examination of the major tools available, such as:
    • Front Panel
    • File Manager
    • Applications Manager
    • Help system
  • Customizing 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
• Solaris Installation
  • Overview and demo
  • Monitor prompt commands (boot, probe-scsi, probe-ide, test-net, devalias etc.)
  • Identifying system settings such as the default boot device
• Troubleshooting boot failure
• Patch Administration
  • Obtaining and installing the latest patches, including clusters and individual patches
  • Examining the current patch level of a machine
  • Removing patches
• Software Configuration and Package Administration
  • Examining, Installing and removing software packages using command line utilities and the Webstart installer GUI
  • Using the Solaris Product Registry
• Start-up and Shutdown
  • In-depth explanation of the Service Management Facility (SMF)
  • Using SMF utilities to monitor and control boot processes
  • Modifying SMF properties with svccfg
  • SMF repositories and recovery
  • Adding your own scripts and SMF service descriptions at system boot
  • Understanding and changing run levels
  • Shutting down, suspending and powering off the system
  • Power management
  • Additional information for previous Solaris versions
• Adding and Maintaining Users
  • Concepts
  • Ownership of files, directories and processes
  • Classes of user
  • Adding a user manually, via command line tools and graphically
  • User initialization file management
• Disk concepts and structure.
  • Slices (partitions) and Solaris device naming conventions
  • Physical disk connection
  • listing and reconfiguring the systems devices
  • Slicing and labeling disks with the format utility
  • Creating a Solaris file system with newfs
• File System Maintenance
  • The mount command and options
  • USB and Firewire devices
  • Making room on the file system
  • File system security
  • Utilities for file system monitoring
• System Security
  • Monitoring access to the system
  • Using the su (Switch User) command, and monitoring its use
  • Restricting file and directory access using protection mechanisms including:
    • access modes
    • s and t bits
    • umask
    • chown and chmod
• Back-Up and Restore Utilities
  • Backup strategies
  • Taking a complete backup with ufsdump
  • Using fssnap to snapshot the file system and take a clean backup
  • Restoring individual files and directories
  • Restoring an entire system
  • Considerations for disaster recovery
  • The tar, cpio and mt utilities
• Utilities and Shell Scripting
  • This will cover a selection of Solaris utilities such as grep, sed and nawk, plus a basic grounding in writing and interpreting shell scripts

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