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Solaris 8 System Administrator

Installation, Initialization, and Shutdown

The Boot Process and Boot PROM
User and Software Package Administration
System Security and Remote Connection
Process Control
File Systems, Files, and Directories
Disk Configuration
Backup and Recovery
vi Editor and Command Syntax
LP Print Service
Practice Exam

Lesson Detail:

Installation, Initialization, and Shutdown

Selected system administrator terms
Requirements and preparation for installation
Software and configuration clusters
System configuration to be installed
Disk storage systems
Device drivers
Installing the Solaris 8 software
Power on and booting the system
System run states
Init phase
Stopping and starting services with control scripts
System shutdown

The Boot Process and Boot PROM

OpenBoot environment
OpenBoot architecture
OpenBoot interface
PROM full device names
OpenBoot device aliases
OpenBoot non-volatile RAM (NVRAM)
OpenBoot security
OpenBoot diagnostics
Input and output control
boot
Kernel

User and Software Package Administration

Adding user accounts with Admintool
Managing user accounts with Admintool
Managing users from the command line
User initialization files
Home directories and name services
Managing software
Listing and spooling software packages
Adding and removing software
Software patches

System Security and Remote Connection

Physical security
Controlling system access
Storing user account information
Controlling file access
Permission schemes for user and group IDs
Access Control Lists (ACLs)
Managing ACL entries
Setting path and identification permission
Monitoring users and system usage
Obtaining login information
Using firewalls and securing network services
Other network security methods
Remote system operations and the trusted host
Restricting FTP
Restricting root access
Monitoring superuser access
Automated Security Enhancement Tool (ASET)

Process Control

Viewing a process
The pgrep and prstat commands
Process Manager
Using signals
Scheduling processes
The crontab command
The at command
syslog and other logs

File Systems, Files, and Directories

A file system defined
Solaris file system types
Disk slices
Creating slices with the format utility
Parts of a UFS file system
Creating a UFS file system
Custom file system parameters
File system operations
Mounting file systems
Displaying mounted file systems
Constructing a file system
Tuning file systems
Options for mounting a file system
Unmounting a file system
Volume Manager
Modifying devices with the Volume Manager
Troubleshooting media devices
Information on file systems

Disk Configuration

Device drivers
Physical device names
Device auto-configuration
Instance names
Transparent configurations
Major and minor device numbers
Logical device names
Virtual volume management
Metadevices and drivers
StorEdge Volume Manager

Backup and Recovery

Backup media and utilities
The tar command
The dd command
The cpio command
The pax command
The ufsdump command
The ufsrestore command
Recovering file systems

Vi Editor and Command Syntax

Shell script basics
Selecting a shell to use
Bourne shell variables
Bourne shell built-ins and conditionals
The if and case conditionals
Repeated-action commands and functions

LP Print Service

The Solaris LP print service
The print spooler and LP daemons
Printer hardware
Printer software
Print servers
Creating printer classes
Managing printers with GUI tools
Routine printer tasks
Checking printer status
Managing user access to printers
Managing printer queues

Practice Exam

System concepts
The boot PROM
Installation
Initialization and shutdown
User administration
Security
Process control
File systems
Files and directories
The boot process
Disk configuration
Backup and recovery
Basic command syntax

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