AUDIENCE:   Experienced support staff or users who have some hands on experience with a UNIX based system, or who have used another type of system and have attended suitable pre-training, such as our UNIX The Essentials course. The course is a pre-requisite to the Solaris System Administration Part 2 course. PREREQUISITES:   Attendees should have a good basic understanding of UNIX, ideally gained through our UNIX The Essentials course, and preferably some practical experience in the workplace. Knowledge of a standard UNIX editor (e.g. vi) will be required. DURATION:   4 days. Hands on. FOLLOW ON:   Solaris Admin Part 2 OBJECTIVES:   The Solaris System Administration Part 1 course is for users who have an understanding of UNIX and require to administer a Solaris based workstation or PC. The delegate will learn how to install Solaris, add users, create and maintain filesystems, add additional packages and patches, manage the Service Management Facility and perform backup and recovery. Although specific to Solaris 10, delegates can apply most of the skills gained to prior versions of Solaris. COURSE CONTENT:   The Solaris Filesystems Device drivers; filesystem types; disc slices; the UNIX Filesystem; mounting & checking filesystems. The format and fdisk Utility Creating disc slices; label discs The SPARC OpenBoot PROM Environment OBP environment; NVRAM; OBP configuration. The x86 GRUB Environment Grub boot process and menu files. User and Group Accounts User & group management; shell files. Start-up and Shutdown Run states, milestones, init process; run control scripts; service management facility, boot up & shutdown Software Package Administration pkgadd, pkgrm pkgtrans & pkginfo commands; web start; package spooling. Patch management Sunsolve; installing patches; patch clusters; patchadd & patchrm commands Process control The ps, pgrep, kill, pkill & prstat commands; using cron & at processes Backup, recovery & snapshots Tape devices; ufsdump & ufsrestore; system recovery; the fssnap utility NT10/09