IT ADMIN

SUN SOLARIS ADMINISTRATION

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Last Update August 20, 2023

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About This Course

Course Overview :

Solaris is a Unix operating system originally developed by Sun Microsystems. It superseded their earlier SunOS in 1993. Oracle Solaris, as it is now known, has been owned by Oracle Corporation since Oracle’s acquisition of Sun in January 2010.Solaris is known for its scalability, especially on SPARC systems, and for originating many innovative features such as DTrace, ZFS and Time Slider. Solaris supports SPARC-based and x86-based workstations and servers from Oracle and other vendors, with efforts underway to port to additional platforms. Solaris is registered as compliant with the Single Unix Specification.

Course Content

Introduction to Unix

- History of Unix
- Basic Concepts of Operating Systems, Kernel, shell and file system structure
- Basic Concepts of Unix
- Basic Commands of Unix
- Advanced Unix Commands

Installation of Solaris

- Introduction to Solaris
- Basic concepts of Solaris
- Interactive Installation
- Web-start Installation
- Network based Installation

Software package and patch administration

- Installing, checking and deleting software packages
- Installing, checking and deleting of patches

Startup and Shutdown scripts

- Open Boot Prom
- Boot Sequence
- Kernel Initialization
- Init Process
- Run Control Script

User and group administration

- Creating and deleting users from the system
- Modifying users profile
- Creating and deleting groups
- Important system files related to user administration

Advanced file permissions (ACL)

- Creating, modifying and deleting ACL’s
- Automation of jobs
- At
- Cron

Device Configuration

- Basic architecture of devices
- Device Naming convention
- Reconfiguring devices

Disk, Slice and Mounting File System

- Defining disk slices
- Mounting various file systems(hsfs, pcfs, ufs)
- Automatic mounting of file system

Quotas

- Creating Quotas for users
- Auditing quotas

Backup and recovery

- Introduction to various types of backup media
- Backing up and restoring data using ufsdump and ufsrestore commands
- Backing up and restoring data using tar and cpio commands

Printer Configuration

- Printing basics
- Configuring local printer
- Configuring print server
- Configuring remote printer

Basics of TCP/IP

- OSI reference model
- Basics of TCP/IP
- IP addressing, subnetting

Installation of Oracle 8i

- Network based File systems ( NFS, CacheFS, AutoFS)
- Basics of Network based file systems
- Configuring NFS servers for sharing resources
- Configuring NFS clients
- Configuring Cache FS on clients of NFS
- Configuring AutoFS (Automatic file systems), using direct and indirect mapping

Custom Jumpstart Installation

- Creating profile for jumpstart installation over the network
- Starting the automatic (jumpstart) installation on the client

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

- Configuring Solaris as DHCP server
- Configuring various clients for dhcp server, i.e. Windows client, Solaris clients, Linux clients

Network Information Service (NIS)

- Basics of NIS
- Configuring NIS master server, slave server and client
- Creating NIS users

DNS with Bind 8

- Basis of Internet
- Basic of DNS and BIND8
- Configuring DNS primary server, and secondary servers
- Configuring DNS for multiple domains and sub domains
- Configuring various clients ( Windows, Solaris, Linux)

Mail Server(SMTP,POP3,IMAP)

- Basics of Mail servers
- Configuring SMTP services
- Configuring POP3/IMAP service on Solaris

Web Server ( Apache)

- Basic of web service
- Introduction of Apache
- Configuring Apache for main site
- Configuring Apache for multiple sites using IP-based, port-based and name-based virtual hosting

FTP server ( ProFTP daemon)

- Basics of File Transfer protocol
- Configuring proftpd for anonymous ftp service

Proxy Server (Squid)

- Basics of proxy service
- Configuring proxy service
- Creating ACL’s for controlling access to internet
- Configuring various clients ( Windows, Solaris, Linux)

Samba service

- Basics of file sharing in Windows
- Configuring samba to act as PDC for Windows Network
- Configuring samba service for file sharing with windows systems