What you'll learn

 

Unix Administration

 

Basic Unix Commands (12 Hours)

 

Getting Started to Unix

 

• Introduction of Operating System

• Introduction of Unix

• Features of Unix

• Introduction Unix File System Structure

• Unix Directories files and inodes

 

Introduction of Shells

 

• Understanding Shell uses

• Types of Shells in Unix

• Features of Shells

 

Basic Use Commands

 

• Understanding variety of Unix commands with their functions

• Creating and deleting of files with different options

• Creating and deleting of directories with different options

• Copying files and directories with different options

• File and directory modification commands

• File and directory removing commands

• File and directory renaming commands

• Listing files and directories with their permissions

 

Introduction of Visual editor

 

• Introduction of Visual editor

• Understanding vi editor functions and their uses

• Types of modes in vi editor Creation of shell scripts using vi editor

 

File Access Permissions

 

• Introduction of file access permissions

• Understanding umask and their advantages

• Advantages of file access permissions

• Methods of file access permissions

• Like absolute and symbolic methods

 

Communication Tools

 

• Introduction of communication tools

• Understanding various types of communication tools

• Working with communication tools

 

Types of Filters

 

• Introduction of filters and their advantages

• Understanding uses of filters

• Understanding types of fileters like

• Simple filters (more, less, tail, head, sort, wc& paste)

• Advanced filters (find, grep, sed&awk)

• Work with filters

 

Introduction of Links

 

• Introduction of links and their advantages

• Understanding links between files and directories

• Understanding of types of link like (soft & hard link)

• Creation and removing links

 

Introduction of Process Scheduling

 

• Introduction of process management

• Understanding system process and user process

• Understanding different types of process like

        (Fore ground & Back ground process)

 

Introduction of Process Killing

 

• Understanding different killing signals on Unix

• Listing killing signal with their functions

• Advantages of killing signals

• Killing process with process id

• Killing process with process name

 

System Administration Paper 1 (40 Hour)

 

Module 1

 

• Introduction of Operating System

• Brief history of Unix 

• features Types of flavors and their advantages

 

System Concepts

 

• Introduction of Sun Solaris

• Understanding different versions and their

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• Different between Solaris and Windows OS

• Types of hardware

• Understanding physical and logical partitions

• Types of servers and clients

• Types of data cables

• Understanding different hosts in Solaris environment

 

Module 2

 

Installation

 

• Introduction of Sun Solaris 10 Installation

• Differences between INTEL & SPARC system

• Hardware requirements for installation

• Understanding various types of installation methods

• Installation on INTEL and SPARC systems

 

Module 3

 

Understanding Device File Names

 

• Understanding device file names & uses

• Understanding types of device file names

• Introduction of file system

• Understanding Unix file system

• Creation of partitions / slices on INTEL and SPARC system by using format command

• Creation of Unix file system by using newfs command

• Understanding different mount options

• Mount and unmounting file system

• Understanding vfstab&mnttab files

• File system architecture

• Trouble shooting

 

Module 4

 

User Administration

 

• Introduction of users and groups

• Understanding types of groups and users

• Creation and modification of groups

• Creation and modification of user account

• Understanding SMC tools and their advantages

• Adding, modifying & removing groups and users account

       with command mode and SMC tool

• Understanding groups and users various files

 

Advanced User Administration

 

• Introduction of RBAC & their advantages

• Difference between normal & RBAC user

• Understanding RBAC configuration file

• Creating and removing RBAC user

• Introduction of ACL

• Advantages of ACLs

• Creation and remove ACLs entries

 

Disk Quotas

 

• Introduction of disk quotas

• Advantages of disk quotas

• Understanding types of quotas like (creation and removing quota limitation for users)

• Trouble shooting

 

Module 5

 

Run Levels

 

• Introduction of run levels

• Understanding different types of run levels

• Changing the init phases

• Introduction to run control scripts and their advantages

• Understanding startup & killing scripts functions

• Modification of run control scripts function

• Understanding different types shutdown commands

• Trouble shooting

 

File System Checking Program

 

• Introduction of file system checking program and their uses

• Types of file system inconsistency checking

• Checking of file system status with fsck command

• Repairing inconsistency of file system with fsck command

• Advantages of fsck program

• Trouble shooting

 

Booting Process

 

• Understanding booting process on SPARC & INTEL

• Understanding OBP Command

• Working with OBP Command

• Trouble shooting

 

Module 6

 

Solaris Management Facility (SMF)

 

• Introduction of SMF service

• Differences between SMF service and standalone service

• Understanding types of SMF service various status

• Viewing all SMF services

• Enabling, Disabling, Restarting & Refreshing the services

• Trouble shooting services using svcadm command

 

Volume Management

 

• Introduction of volume management

• Advantages of volume management

• Manual mounting of CD-roms, dvd-roms&usb devices

• Mounting of DOS formatted devices

• Understandignvold daemon process

• Trouble shooting

 

Package Administration

 

• Introduction of package manager

• Understanding sun packages

• Difference between SUN & VRTS packages

• Understanding varous SUN Clusters on Solaris and their advantages Viewing, Adding & Removing SUN packages

• Adding SUN packages from CD-ROM spooling of SUN

• Patch Administration

• Introduction of patch management

• Understanding of different patchs

• Understanding of various patch versions

• Viewing, Adding & Removing patches

 

Module 7

 

Schedule Jobs

 

• Introduction of jobs and their advantages

• Understanding types of jobs in Unix

• Differences between at & crontab jobs

• Creation and removing of at jobs & crontab jobs

• Understanding security files

 

Process Controlling

 

• Introduction of process controlling

• Understanding standalone daemon & transient daemon

 

Swap Management

 

• Introduction of swap management

• Understanding different types of swaps

• Creation of swap files

• Creation of dedicated swap partitions

• Adding internal & external swap areas

• Creating static and dynamic swap areas

 

Performance Tuning Management

 

• Understanding difference performance tools like (prstat, vmstat, netstat, iostat and sar)

• Generating various reports using prtconf, sysdef commands

 

Module 8

 

Backup & Restore

 

• Introduction of backup & restore process

• Introduction of backup medias

• Understanding various backup media & their advantages

• Understanding types of backup commands functions & their advantages

• Understanding types of backups like (Full backup, incremental backup& cumulative backup)

• Understanding various backups like local system backup & remote system backup

• Understanding file system backup using ufsdump command

• Restoring file system backup from backup media using  ufsrestore command

• Understanding different restoring options

• Introduction on line backup and restore process

• Advantages of line backup

• Performing on line backup using fssnap command

 

System Administration Paper 2 (20 Hours)

 

Module 1 (2 Days) 

 

Introduction of Networking

 

• Introduction of networking method

• Introduction of LAN & WAN

• Introduction of IP Class ranges

• Understanding about NIC Cards and their uses

• Understanding about physical address & logical address

• Viewing, Enabling & Disabling NIC Cards

• Trouble shooting

 

Module 2

 

Introduction of Network Tools

 

• Introduction about network tools

• Understanding various network tools like (telnet, rlogin, rcp, rsh, ssh&scp)

• Working with above network tools and know their advantages

• Configuration of network tools

• Difference between rcp&scp

• Communication between two servers using telnet & rlogin tools

• Implementing trusted relationship between servers and their uses

• Trouble shooting

 

File Transfer Protocols(FTP)

 

• Introduction of FTP server

• Advantages & disadvantages of FTP server

• Understanding types of FTP users & their functions

• Configuration of FTP server & FTP client

• Configuration of anonymous user

 

Module 3

 

Network File System(NFS)

 

• Introduction of NFS server

• Understanding NFS service & their advantages

• Features of NFS service

• Understanding NFS version and their differences

• Understanding various NFS daemons

• Understanding NFS server side & NFS clients

• Understanding various NFS configuration files like (/etc/dfs/dfstab& /etc/rmtab)

• Configuraion of cachefs with NFS

• Advantages of chchefs

• Trouble shooting

 

Introduction of Solaris Management Console (SMC)

 

• Introduction of SMC tools

• Advantages of SMC tools

• Adding, Removing groups & users with SMC tools

• Managing disk partitions with SMC tools

 

Module 4

 

Printer Management

 

• Introduction of printer management

• Understanding various types of printers like

(local, remote & network printer)

• Configuration of local, remote & network printer

• Enabling, ipstat, ipshut, ipsched&ipadmin services

• Understanding various printer configuration file

• Trouble shooting

 

Network Administrator Paper 3(40 Hours)

 

Module 1

 

Domain Naming System (DNS)

 

• Introduction of domain naming service

• Name unique ness problem solution DNS overview

• Hierarchal structure of DNS

• Concept of fully FQDN

• Understanding types of DNS servers

• Understanding DNS daemon process

• Understanding DNS command process

• Understanding types of queries in DNS

• Understanding types of zone files in DNS

• Understanding of DNS server, DNS slave & DNS client

• Configuration of DNS server

• Configuration of DNS slave & DNS client

• Advantages of DNS slave server

• Problem determination & trouble shooting

 

Module 2

 

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

 

• Introduction of DHCP service

• DHCP overview

• Advantages of DHCP server

• Understanding DHCP server & DHCP client process

• Configuration of DHCP server & DHCP client

• Allocation of dynamic IP Address to the DHCP clients

• Unconfiguration of DHCP server

• Trouble shooting

 

Module 3

 

Samba Server

 

• History of SAMBA server & their advantages

• Difference between NFS, FTP & SAMBA

• Understanding of SAMBA daemon process

• Configuration of SAMBA server

• Connecting SAMBA server from Unix clients & Windows

 

• Understanding SWAT tool

• Advantages of SWAT tool

• Configuration of SWAT tool

• Trouble shooting

 

Module 4

 

APACHE WEB service

 

• Introduction of APACHE WEB server

• Advantages of APACHE WEB server

• Understanding types of web servers like(port based, IP based & name based)

• Configuration of APACHE WEB server

• Understanding APACHE WEB server daemon process

 

Module 5

 

Naming Information Service (NIS)

 

• Introduction of NiS

• NIS architecture overview

• Understanding NIS maps & their functions

• Understanding NIS daemon process

• Understanding NIS commands

• Understanding NIS server, NIS slave & NIS client process

• Understanding of NIS configuration files

• Configuration of NIS server with NFS server

• Configuration of NIS slave & NIS clients

• Advantages of NIS slave server

• Problem determination & trouble shooting

 

Module 6

 

Solaris Volume Manager ( SVM) & Raid levels (RAID)

 

• Introduction of Solaris volume manager & RAID concept

• Understanding types of RAID like (Software RAID & Hardware RAID)

• Advantages of RAID

• Understanding types of RAID levels like (concatenation, striping, mirroring, RAID5, RAID 0+1, RAID 1+0 with their advantages)

• Understanding metadevice&statedatabase

• Implementation of RAID levels

• Understanding of online backup & online increasing file system

• Understanding root mirroring & their advantages

• Configuration of root file system mirroring

• Unconfiguration of root file system mirroring

• Understanding hotspare pools

• Creation & removing hotspare pools

• Advantages of hotspare pools

• Trouble shooting

 

Module 7 (2 Days)

 

Zone (Virtualization)

 

•  Introduction of Solaris zones

• Understanding of zone advantages

• Understanding types of zones like (Global zone & Non-global zone)

• Minimum requirement for zone configuration

• Understanding of zone various status like (configured, installed, ready, boot & running)

• Configuration of non-global zones & adding resources like (file system, cups & hard disk)

• Viewing all non-global zones with their status zone names renaming

• Zone login & zone shutdown command

• Understanding zone unconfiguration method

 

Module 8

 

Network Installation Methods

 

• Understanding network installation methods like (jumpstart & web start)

• Difference between jumpstart & web start

• Understanding jumpstart configuration file like (/etc/bootparams & /etc/ethers)

• Configuration of jumpstart &webstart server

• Adding & removing jumpstart clients to the jumpstart server

• Install network clients with jumpstart & web start server