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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 435 Content Installing UNIX
Local disk systems
- Creating a virtual machine
- Installing stand-alone UNIX
- Disk naming—physical vs. logical
UNIX memory
- Virtual memory: paging and swapping
- Increasing swap space
Booting UNIX
- Boot files: BSD and SVR4
- init and inittab
- Utilizing Solaris Service Management Facility (SMF)
- Starting system services: Daemons
- Customizing system start-up
Maintaining File Systems
Resizing a file system
- Repartitioning a drive
- Creating a new file system with newfs
- Establishing and extending logical volumes
Building the virtual file system
- Examining file system types: UNIX, CD-ROM, JFS, UDF and DOS
- Mounting local and remote file systems
- Configuring permanent mounts
- Listing inodes and superblocks
Monitoring and automating the file system
- Consistency checking with fsck
- Setting up the automounter
Managing UNIX User Accounts
Creating users
- Defining the superuser: su
- Configuring user account databases
- Adding and deleting users with useradd and usermod
- Developing user login and other start-up files
Simple shell scripting
- Making use of argument variables
- Conditional statements: if/then/else
- Automating system administration
Providing Local System Services
Automating system services
- Scheduling events with cron
- Executing jobs with at
Establishing print services
- BSD: printcap
- SVR4: lpadmin
- Setting up a print server
Adding Software and Backups
System backup and recovery
- Utilizing the dump and restore commands
- Taking a snapshot of file systems
- Manipulating tar archives
- Backing up and recovering snapshot data
Automating system services
- Scheduling events with cron
- Executing jobs with at
Installing application software
- Comparing distribution formats
- Examining compression tools
- Adding and removing packages
Implementing Security
Securing logins and extending user privileges
- Implementing a password policy
- Setting password aging
- Configuring sudo to securely empower users
Disabling remote services
- Turning off unnecessary services
- Remote X server access
Monitoring System Performance
Network Utilization
- Diagnosing network with netstat
- Discovering port usage with lsof
Workload averages, CPU and memory usage
- Exploring load-aging trend with w
- Virtual memory statistics
- Listing processes with ATT and BSD ps
- Viewing service status with Solaris svcs
Disk usage and I/O
- Checking disk usage with df and du
- Tracking disk I/O with iostat
UNIX Networking
Connecting to Ethernet
- Internet addresses
- Secure shell: ssh
- Remote commands: rcp, rsh, rlogin
- Resolving hostnames with DNS
File system, directory and print sharing
- Constructing an LDAP server and client
- Sharing a file system with NFS
- Providing remote print services
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