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You Will Learn How To
- Install and configure a UNIX system
- Maintain and monitor file systems
- Add, remove and configure user accounts
- Deploy standard and third-party UNIX software
- Monitor and troubleshoot system performance
- Implement file, printer and network services
Course Benefits
With the increased proliferation of UNIX systems, knowledgeable and experienced administrators who can support them are in high demand. This course provides the knowledge and skills you need to successfully manage the UNIX operating system. You learn to install and configure system and application software, provide and exploit UNIX-based network resources, establish a working environment that is convenient for users, and increase productivity with automation and scripting.
Who Should Attend
Those installing, administering, supporting or integrating UNIX systems. Course 428, "UNIX Comprehensive Introduction", or recent experience with UNIX is assumed.
Hands-on Training
During this course, you perform extensive exercises that provide in-depth, hands-on experience. Exercises include:
- Creating a virtual machine and installing UNIX
- Administering file systems and logical volumes
- Setting up users and groups
- Configuring a local printer
- Backing up file systems
- Monitoring system performance
- Configuring network services
Course Content
- Creating a virtual machine
- Installing standalone UNIX
- Disc naming—physical vs. logical
- Virtual memory: paging and swapping
- Increasing swap space
- Boot files: BSD and SVR4
- init and inittab
- Utilising Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF)
- Starting system services: Daemons
- Customising system start-up
- Repartitioning a drive
- Creating a new file system with newfs
- Establishing and extending logical volumes
- Examining file system types: UNIX, CD-ROM, JFS, UDF and DOS
- Mounting local and remote file systems
- Configuring permanent mounts
- Listing inodes and superblocks
- Consistency checking with fsck
- Setting up the automounter
- Defining the superuser: su
- Configuring user account databases
- Adding and deleting users with useradd and usermod
- Developing user login and other start-up files
- Making use of argument variables
- Conditional statements: if/then/else
- Automating system administration
- Scheduling events with cron
- Executing jobs with at
- BSD: printcap
- SVR4: lpadmin
- Setting up a print server
- Utilising the dump and restore commands
- Taking a snapshot of file systems
- Manipulating tar archives
- Backing up and recovering snapshot data
- Scheduling events with cron
- Executing jobs with at
- Comparing distribution formats
- Examining compression tools
- Adding and removing packages
- Implementing a password policy
- Setting password aging
- Configuring sudo to securely empower users
- Turning off unnecessary services
- Remote X server access
- Diagnosing network with netstat
- Discovering port usage with lsof
- Exploring load aging trend with w
- Virtual memory statistics
- Listing processes with ATT and BSD ps
- Viewing service status with Solaris svcs
- Checking disc usage with df and du
- Tracking disc I/O with iostat
- Internet addresses
- Secure shell: ssh
- Remote commands: rcp, rsh, rlogin
- Resolving hostnames with DNS
- Constructing an LDAP server and client
- Sharing a file system with NFS
- Providing remote print services
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