Solaris

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

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

Installation of Solaris

• Introduction to Solaris

• Basic concepts of Solaris

• Interactive Installation

• Web-start Installation

• Network based Installation

Custom Jumpstart Installation

• Creating profile for jumpstart installation over the network

• Starting the automatic (jumpstart) installation on the clien

Software package and patch administration

• Installing, checking and deleting software packages

• Installing, checking and deleting of patches

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

• Configuring Solaris as DHCP server

• Configuring various clients for dhcp server, i.e. Windows client, Solaris clients, Linux clients

Startup and Shutdown scripts

• Open Boot Prom

• Boot Sequence

• Kernel Initialization

• Init Process

• Run Control Script

Network Information Service (NIS)

• Basics of NIS

• Configuring NIS master server, slave server and client

• Creating NIS users

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

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)

Advanced file permissions (ACL)

• Creating, modifying and deleting ACL's

Automation of jobs

• At

• Cron

Mail Server(SMTP,POP3,IMAP)

• Basics of Mail servers

• Configuring SMTP services

• Configuring POP3/IMAP service on Solaris

Device Configuration

• Basic architecture of devices

• Device Naming convention

• Reconfiguring devices

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

Disk, Slice and Mounting File System

• Defining disk slices

• Mounting various file systems(hsfs, pcfs, ufs)

• Automatic mounting of file system

FTP server ( ProFTP daemon)

• Basics of File Transfer protocol

• Configuring proftpd for anonymous ftp service

Quotas

• Creating Quotas for users

• Auditing quotas

Proxy Server (Squid)

• Basics of proxy service

• Configuring proxy service

• Creating ACL's for controlling access to internet

• Configuring various clients ( Windows, Solaris, Linux)

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

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

Printer Configuration

• Printing basics

• Configuring local printer

• Configuring print server

• Configuring remote printer

RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks)

• Implementing RAID with ODS.(Online Disk Suite 4.2.1)

• Concatenation and growfs

• RAID levels ( 0, 1, and 5) with hotspare pool

Basics of TCP/IP

• OSI reference model

• Basics of TCP/IP

• IP addressing, subnetting

Modem Configuration

• Configuring Modems for Dial out purpose

Installation of Oracle 8i

Web Based Administration

• Installing Webmin on Solaris

• Administrating the Solaris machine remotely

• Using Webmin as Tool for configuring various services on Solaris