M7   Advanced Solaris System Administration Topics 
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