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12TH SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION CONFERENCE (LISA '98) - Dec 6-11, 1998 - Marriott Copley Place Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts
 
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M7   Advanced Solaris System Administration Topics NEW!
Peter Galvin, Corporate Technologies,Inc.

Who should attend: UNIX administrators who need more knowledge of Solaris administration.

This course covers a variety of topics that are of importance to Solaris system administrators. We will discuss the new major features of recent Solaris releases, including which to use, which to avoid, and how to use them. This in depth course will provide the information a systems manager/administrator needs to effectively run a Solaris installation.

Topics include:

-    Installing and Upgrading
*    Planning your installation, filesystem layout, post-installation steps
*    Installing (and removing) patches and packages

-    Advanced Features of Solaris 2
*    CacheFS - Configuring and using AutoFS
*    Software Manager
*    NIS+ features, differences between NIS+ and NIS, migration issues
*    Printing
*    Serial I/O - The Service Access Facility, enabling logins on a serial port, configuring a serial port for tip

-    Networking and the Kernel
*    Virtual IP - Configuration and uses
*    PPP and alternatives
*    Kernel and performance tuning - New features, adding devices, tuning, debugging commands
*    Devices - Naming conventions, drivers

-    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, tools
*    Resources and references
 


 Peter Galvin  (S10, M7)  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, and is co-author of the Operating Systems Concepts texbook. As a consultant and trainer, Peter has taught tutorials in security and system administration and given talks at many conferences.
 


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