Basic Sun Solaris Admin Course

by Vibrant Technologies & Computers

Module

Title

Contents

Module 1:

Software & Patch Administration

• Adding software packages with pkgadd

• Rremoving software packages with pkgrm

Module 2:

Solaris System Administration

• A few simple rules

• Where to get help

• Graphical Administration with admintool

Module 3:

Starting Up & Shutting Down

• The Solaris boot process

• Power on

• Initialisation process

Module 4:

User Management

• /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group

• Useradd

• Removing users

Module 5:

System Security

• Password Ageing

• Login control with /etc/default/login

• Special permissions

Module 6:

Process Management

• Processes overview

• Killing application processes

Module 7:

Disk Management

• Disk label, disk geometry, disk layout

• Partitioning with format

• RAID

Module 8:

Backing Up

• Why backup?

• Backup media, Backup types

• Backing Up with tar

Module 9:

Solaris Printing

• User commands

• The scheduler

• Adding a local printer

• The print queue