Advanced Solaris System Administration Topics
Peter Galvin
Topic: Solaris
Audience: Intermediate/Advanced
Description:
Length: 1 day lecture or 2 days hands-on
Outline: Some of the topics included:
Introduction
Section I - Installing and Upgrading
Installation
- Planning your installation, Filesystem Layout
- Post-installation steps
Installing patches and packages
- Installing patches, finding installed patches, strategies
- Installing, removing, and managing packages
Section II - Advanced Features of Solaris 2
CacheFS
- How to configure and use AutoFS
- Known problems, Hints and tips
Software Manager
- What it does and when to use it
NIS+ Overview
- Features of NIS+
- Differences between NIS+ and NIS
- Migration issues
Printing
- Overview of Solaris 2 printing system
- Adding a printer
- Troubleshooting
- What changes are expected in future releases?
Serial I/O
- The Service Access Facility - Overview
- Enabling logins on a serial port
- Configuring a serial port for tip
Section III Networking and the Kernel
Virtual IP
- Configuration and uses
PPP and Alternatives
- Why use PPP?
- Configuring Solaris PPP
Kernel and Performance Tuning
- New Features
- Adding Devices
- Tuning
- Debugging Commands
Devices
- Device naming conventions
- Device drivers
Section IV Enhancing Solaris
High Availability essentials
- Disk failures and recovery
- RAID levels, uses and performance
- H/A products
Tools
- Useful free tools
- Tool use strategies
Security
- Locking down Solaris
- System modifications
- Useful tools
Resources and References
- Where to find the best information
- Which documents to get and read
Annotated Bibliography
Prerequisites:
Unix administrators who need more knowledge of Solaris
History:
New tutorial
LISA 1998
Last change: Sep 16, 2006 04:30:55 PM
The Speaker: Peter Galvin
Contact Organization: Corporate Technologies
Location: Massachusetts
Phone: 781-273-4100
Email: pbg@cptech.com
Website: www.cptech.com
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: All offers
Other payment info: Please contact me for tutorial fees (fee plus travel). For talks, will consider the opportunity.
Bio:
Peter Galvin is the Chief Technologist for Corporate Technologies, Inc. and was the Systems Manager for Brown University's Computer Science Department.
He has written articles for Byte and other magazines, is security columnist for SunWorld magazine, and is co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts texbook.
As a consultant and trainer, Mr. Galvin has taught tutorials in security and system administration and given talks at many conferences.
Recent talks include the topics of security architecture and firewalls.
Tutorials include Introduction to Unix Administration, Advanced Topics in Solaris Administration, and Introduction to Unix Security
Last change: Aug 31, 2006 02:53:47 PM
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