On Demand Lab - System Administration for Solaris 10, Part I (WSPL-SA-200-S10)

Course Length

16 hours

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Prerequisites

• Perform basic UNIX tasks
• Understand basic UNIX commands
• Use the vi text editor
• Interact with a windowing system

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Skills Gained

• Identify Solaris 10 OS file types
• Manage Local Disk Devices
• Perform file system mounts and unmounts
• Manage software packages
• Manage software patches
• Perform user administration
• Control system processes
• Manage UFS snapshots
• Manage ZFS snapshots
• Manage user system access and privileges

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Related Courses

Before:

• Solaris 10 Operating System Essentials (SA-100-S10)

After:

• System Administration for the Solaris 10 Operating System Part 2 (SA-202-S10)
• Shell Programming for System Administrators (SA-245)

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Course Content

On Demand Lab 1 - Identifying File Types

• Identify Solaris OS file types

On Demand Lab 2 - Managing Local Disk Devices

• Identify logical, physical, and instance names for disk devices
• Create and manage fdisk partitions
• Create and manage disk partitions

On Demand Lab 3 - Performing Mounts and Unmounts

• Create mount points
• Mount file systems
• Specify mount options

On Demand Lab 4 - Managing Software Packages

• Use package management commands to install packages
• Use package management commands to remove packages
• Use package management commands to spool packages

On Demand Lab 5 - Managing Software Patches

• Use patch management commands to install patches
• Use patch management commands to remove patches

On Demand Lab 6 - Performing User Administration

• Add user groups to the Solaris 10 operating system
• Add user accounts to the Solaris 10 operating system
• Examine user configuration files
• Establish user password aging
• Modify an initialization file template in the /etc/skel directory
• Create user accounts that use the template you modified

On Demand Lab 7 - Controlling System Processes

• List system processes
• Display system process information
• Control system processes
• Terminate system processes
• Create an at job and create an entry in a crontab file

On Demand Lab 8 - Managing UFS Snapshots

• Create a UFS snapshot
• View the contents of the UFS backing-store directory
• Display detailed information for the UFS snapshot
• Remove the snapshot and backing-store file

On Demand Lab 9 - Managing ZFS Snapshots

• Create a ZFS snapshot
• Copy files from a ZFS snapshot
• Rollback a ZFS snapshot
• Remove a ZFS snapshot

On Demand Lab 10 - Managing User System Access and Privileges

• Log failed login attempts
• Use the commands finger, last, rusers, and whoami to monitor user activities
• Examine the sulog file to identify user attempts to run the su command
• Change the /etc/default/login file to allow root logins from any terminal
• Create a /.rhosts file to allow root access from another system
• Configure Solaris Secure Shell to enhance system access security
• Disable the telnet protocol on a server
• Configure role-based access control (RBAC) to control which users have access to privileged operations

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