The Sun Solaris Operating System
Course Type:
Self-paced Courses
Estimated Time of Completion:
2 hours 41 minutes
CEU Credits:
Language:
English
Description:
In this course, you will examine the origin and history of the Solaris 2.x operating system, and its relationship with other UNIX family systems. You will be presented with the Solaris operating system as a business solution, and examine its various components. Furthermore, the course addresses issues surrounding its use, administration, and development. The course highlights those aspects that make Solaris an innovative operating system, and provides some commonly used UNIX skills and "tricks."
Objectives:
- After completing this course, you will be able to describe the unique features of Solaris 2.x, assess the suitability of Solaris 2.x operating environments, install and maintain the Solaris system on both Intel-based and Sparc systems, describe important components, directory trees, and file systems, back up and restore the Solaris file system, configure the NFS distributed computing environment, and find further information about Solaris.
Hardware and Software Required:
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Content Outline:
Introduction to the Solaris 2.x Operating System
Sun Microsystems and Solaris
Major Applications
References
Solaris System Architecture
Sun System Configurations
Server Types
OS Architecture
Planning and Installing a Solaris Server
Before Installing
Installing Solaris
Post-Installation
Basic Solaris Skills
Getting Around the Solaris System
The Korn Shell
Customizing the Environment
Solaris System Administration Tasks
Booting up and Shutting Down
Kernel Management
The Solaris File System
NFS Administration
Peripherals
Miscellaneous Issues
System Security Measures
Access Control
Backing up and Restoring
Security Issues
Graphical User Interfaces (GUIs)
GUI and X Windows
OpenWindows and DeskSet
Close Window
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