I.      INTRODUCTION

•        What is a System Administrator?

• What does a System Administrator do?
• Typical tasks of the System Administrator
• Additional Resources ...  

    II.      INSTALLING SOLARIS

• Sun System Configurations
• Software Groupings
• Software Clusters
• Installing Solaris

 III.      THE BOOT PROM

• The Boot PROM and OpenBoot
• OBP Prompts
• OBP Commands
• The device tree
• PROM variables
• Booting the system

  IV.      THE BOOT PROCESS

• Run levels
• Describe the features of the Service Management Facility
• Compare run levels and SMF milestones
• Identify the phases of the boot process
• Use SMF administrative commands
• Control boot processes
• Perform system shutdown procedures

     V.      MANAGING SOFTWARE PACKAGES

• Showing package information
• Removing a package
• Adding a package from a CD-ROM
• Checking an added package
• Adding a package from a spooled directory

  VI.      MANAGING PATCHES

• What are patches?
• Where to obtain patches
• What happens when patches are installed?
• Preparing to install a patch
• Installing patches
• Removing patches

VII.      MANAGING USER ACCOUNTS

• What is a user?
• UID's and GID's
• Adding a user
• Setting up the user's environment
• Changing a users password
• Password aging
• Managing initialization files

VIII.      SYSTEM SECURITY

• Password security
• The superuser
• Ownership of files & directories
• User ownership
• Group ownership
• User configuration files
• Restricting access
• Monitoring logins

  IX.      DISKS AND FILE SYSTEMS

• Disk architecture & Slices
• The file structure and file systems
• Paths to disks and slices
• Adding a new device to the system
• Using the Solaris Management Console

     X.      THE SOLARIS FILE SYSTEMS

• Describe Solaris OS file systems
• Create a new ufs file system
• Check the file system by using the fsck command
• Resolve file system inconsistencies
• Monitor file system use

  XI.     

PERFORMING MOUNTS AND UNMOUNTS

• Identify mounting basics
• Perform mounts
• Perform unmounts
• Access a mounted diskette, CD-ROM, or DVD
• Restrict access to a mounted diskette, CD-ROM, or DVD
• Access a diskette, CD-ROM, or DVD without Volume Management (vold)

XII.     

CONTROLLING SYSTEM PROCESSES

• View system processes
• Kill frozen processes
• Schedule an automatic one-time execution of a command
• Schedule an automatic recurring execution of a command

XIII.      CONFIGURING & USING PRINTER SERVICES

• Identify network printing fundamentals
• Configure printer services
• Administer printer services
• Start and stop the line printer (LP) print service
• Specify a destination printer
• Use the LP print service

XIV.      BACKUP AND RECOVERY

•        Backing Up and Restoring File Systems

• Tape Device Types and Naming
• Types of File System Backups
• Performing Remote Backups
• Restoring File Systems
• Create a UFS snapshot
• Back up the snapshot file
• Scheduling Backups and Backup Strategies