Part Ⅰ Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8 1
Chapter1 Taking the Administrator's Exam 3
* What Is Solaris? 3
* Solaris, SunOS, and UNIX 6
* Solaris Certification Exams 7
* Solaris Exam Preparation Courses 8
·Fundamentals of Solaris 8 Operating Environment for System Administrators(SA-118) 9
·Solaris 8 System Administration Ⅰ(SA-238) 9
·Solaris 8 System Administration Ⅱ(SA-288) 11
* What's on the Exam? 12
* Exam Tips and Tricks 13
* Summary 16
Chapter 2 System Concepts 17
* The Kernel 17
* The Shell 21
* The Filesystem 22
* Commonly Used Shells 23
* Multi-user Versus Multi-tasking 23
* Client-Server Networks 24
* Networking Terminology 24
* Summary 26
* Questions 26
* Answers 27
Chapter 3 The OpenBoot PROM 29
* the OpenBoot PROM Monitor 29
* Analyzing System Configuration 31
* Changing the Default Boot Device 32
* Testing System Hardware 34
* Creating and Removing Device Aliases 35
* Troubleshooting Booting Problems 35
* Halting a Hung System 36
* Summary 36
* Questions 37
* Answers 38
Chapter 4 Installing Solaris 8 on a Single Host 39
* Solaris 8 Distribution 39
·Supported Hardware 40
·Supported SPARC Platforms 42
·Device Nomenclature 43
* Pre-Installation Tasks 45
* Web Start Installation 48
·Network 48
·Name Service 49
·Date and Time 50
·Root Password 50
·Power Management 50
·Proxy Server 51
·Kiosk 51
* Summary 52
* Questions 53
* Answers 55
Chapter 5 Software Package Administration 57
* Printing Package Information Using the CLI 58
* Printing Package Information Using admintool 60
* Installing a Solaris Package Using the CLI 63
* Uninstalling a Solaris Package Using the CLI 65
* Installing a Solaris Package Using admintool 66
* Uninstalling a Solaris Package Using Admintool 71
* Summary 73
* Questions 74
* Answers 76
Chapter 6 Maintaining Patches 77
* Understanding Patches 78
* Verifying Installed Patches 80
* Installing Patches 83
* Backing out Patches 83
* Summary 83
* Questions 84
* Answers 84
Chapter 7 The Boot Process 85
* Switching Run-levels 85
* Understanding Booting 88
* The init Process 90
* Writing Startup Scripts 91
* Summary 92
* Questions 93
* Answers 94
Chapter 8 Changing System States 95
* Understanding System Halts 95
·Performing a Reconfiguration Boot 96
·Powering down the System 96
* Performing System Halts and Shutdowns 96
·/sbin/init 97
·/usr/sbin/shutdown 97
·/usr/sbin/halt 98
·/usr/sbin/poweroff 99
·/usr/sbin/reboot 99
* Summary 100
* Questions 100
* Answers 101
Chapter 9 System Security 103
* Checking User and Group Identification 104
* The Super-user Account 105
* File and Directory Ownership 106
·Symbolic Permission Codes 106
* Monitoring User Activity 110
* The/etc/passwd and/etc/shadow Password Files 111
* Summary 114
* Questions 114
* Answers 115
Chapter 10 Managing Users 117
* Users 118
·User Characteristics 118
·Adding Users 119
·Modifying User Attributes 120
·Deleting Users 121
* Groups 122
·Group Characteristics 122
·Adding Groups 123
·Managing Groups 124
* Passwords 124
* Managing Users and Groups with admintool 126
* Summary 130
* Questions 130
* Answers 132
Chapter 11 Administration of Initialization Files 133
* The .profile Script 134
* Common .profile Commands 137
·Source(.) 137
·basename 138
·cat 139
·cd 139
·chgrp 140
·chmod 140
·date 140
·grep 141
·head 141
·less 141
·ls 142
·more 142
·pwd 143
·tail 143
·Processing Shell Arguments 144
·Testing File Properties 145
·Looping 147
·Using Shell Variables 148
* Summary 150
* Questions 150
* Answers 152
Chapter 12 Advanced File Permissions 153
* File Ownership 153
* Display and Change the Default Permissions (umask) 159
* Setuid and Setgid Permissions 161
* Sticky Bit Permissions 162
* Summary 162
* Questions 162
* Answers 164
Chapter 13 Process Control 165
* Processes 165
·The ps Command 167
* Signals 172
* The kill Command 172
* Scheduling Jobs 174
* The at Command 174
* The cron Command 176
* Summary 177
* Questions 177
* Answers 178
Chapter 14 Disk Configuration and Naming 181
* Physical and Logical Device Names 181
* The Format Command 182
* The/etc/path_to_inst File 182
* The dmesg Command 184
* The prtconf Command 186
* Summary 188
* Questions 188
* Answers 189
Chapter 15 Disk Partitions and Format 191
* Hard Disk Layout 191
* Formatting 194
* Summary 199
* Questions 199
* Answers 200
Chapter 16 Introduction to File Systems 201
* Filesystem Structure 201
* Monitoring Disk Usage 202
* Fixing Problems with fsck 207
·The Phases of fsck 208
·fsck Examples 210
* Summary 213
* Questions 213
* Answers 215
Chapter 17 Mounting File Systems 217
* Mounting Local Filesystems 217
* Unmounting Local Filesystems 219
* Understanding Mounting Options 220
* Configuring/etc/vfstab 221
* Summary 222
* Questions 222
* Answers 223
Chapter 18 Backups 225
* Understanding Backups 226
·Why Do You Need Backups? 226
·Determining a Backup Strategy 228
* Selecting a Backup Media 230
·Tape 231
·Hard Drives 231
·Zip/Jaz Disks 232
·CD-Rs and CD-RWs 233
* Backup and Restore 234
·Using tar 234
·Using cpio 237
·Using dd 238
·Using ufsdump and ufsrestore 239
* Summary 242
* Questions 242
* Answers 244
Chapter 19 The Ip Print Service 245
* Supported Printers 245
* Configuring Print Services 247
* Admintool 248
* Solaris Print Manager 249
* Summary 251
* Questions 252
* Answers 253
Chapter 20 Print Commands 255
* Printing Using lp 255
* Monitoring Print Jobs 256
* Managing a Printer Using lpadmin 256
* Setting Printer Classes 258
* Adding Remote Access Using lpadmin 258
* Summary 258
* Questions 258
* Answers 259
Part Ⅱ Sun Certified System Administrator for Solaris 8 261
Chapter 21 The Solaris 8 Network Environment 263
* Network Configuration 263
·Viewing Network Interfaces 271
·Modifying Interface Parameters 272
·IP Routing 275
·Overview of Packet Delivery 275
·traceroute 277
·Static Routes 278
·Routing Protocols 279
* The Kernel Routing Table 279
·Viewing the Routing Table (netstar-r) 279
·Manipulating the Routing Table (route) 280
·Dynamic Routing 281
* Summary 282
* Questions 282
* Answers 283
Chapter 22 Installing a Server 285
* Clients and Servers 285
* Solaris 8 Server Innovations 286
·Clustering Technology 287
·lxrun 287
* Solaris 8 Security Innovations 288
·Kerberos Version 5 288
·IPv6 289
·IP Security(IPSec) 290
* Solaris 8 Distribution 290
·Supported Hardware 291
·Supported SPARC Platforms 292
·Device Nomenclature 293
* Pre-Installation Tasks 296
* Web Start Installation 298
·Network 299
·Name Service 299
·Date and Time 300
·Root Password 300
·Power Management 301
·Proxy Server 301
·Kiosk 301
* Summary 303
* Practice Questions 303
* Answers 305
Chapter 23 Solaris Syslog and Auditing Utilities 307
* Syslog 307
·What Is Syslog? 307
·Examining Log Files 308
·The syslog.conf File 309
·Monitoring System Access 310
·TCP Wrappers 311
* Process Monitoring 313
* Identifying Processes 313
·Parent and Child Processes 314
·The ps Command 314
* Summary 317
* Questions 317
* Answers 318
Chapter 24 Managing Devices 319
* Device Files 320
·dev and/devices 321
·Storage Devices 322
·Serial Devices 326
* Checking for Devices 327
·At Boot Time 329
·While the System Is up 331
* Summary 338
* Questions 338
* Answers 340
Chapter 25 The Service Access Facility (SAF) 341
* The Primary SAF Process (sac) 341
* SAF Port Monitors 343
·ttymon 343
·listen 344
* Port Monitor Management 344
* Summary 345
* Questions 345
* Answers 346
Chapter 26 Adding Terminals and Modems with Admintool 347
* Adding a Serial Port 347
* tip
* Adding a Modem 350
* Summary 351
* Questions 351
* Answers 352
Chapter 27 Introduction to Disk Management 353
* What Is RAID? 353
* Setting up RAID 356
* Striping 357
* Mirroring 358
* Summary 359
* Questions 359
* Answers 360
Chapter 28 Networks 3610
* Subnet configurations 361
* Configuration Network Files 362
* Checking Logged-in Users 362
* Login to a System Remotely 363
* Understanding Remote Access Security 366
* Checking If a Host Is up 369
* Summary 370
* Questions 370
* Answers 371
Chapter 29 Configuring the NFS Environment 373
* 29.1.NFS Architectures 375
* Configuring an NFS Server 376
·RPC 376
·rpcinfo 377
* Sharing Filesystems 378
* Installing an NFS Client 380
* Mounting Remote Filesystems 380
* Summary 382
* Questions 382
* Answers 384
Chapter 30 The CacheFS Filesystem 385
* Configure a CacheFS Filesystem 385
* Summary 387
* Questions 388
* Answers 388
Chapter 31 Using Automount 389
·Enabling the Automounter 390
·Automounter Maps 390
·Automount and NIS1 393
·Starting and Stopping the automounter 394
* Summary 395
* Questions 395
* Answers 396
Chapter 32 Naming Services Overview 397
* DNS Defined 398
* Understanding NIS and NIS1 407
* NIS Maps 410
* Name Service Switch 412
* Summary 414
* Questions 414
* Answers 415
Chapter 33 NIS
* Root domain Installation 417
* Creating Tables 419
* Nonroot Domain Installation 420
* NIS1 Tables 421
·Auto_Home 422
·Auto_Master 422
·Bootparams 423
·Ethers 423
·Group 423
·Hosts 423
·Mail Aliases 424
·Netgroups 424
·Netmasks 425
·Networks 425
·Passwd 425
·Protocols 425
·RPC 426
·Services 426
·Timezone 426
* Using NIS1 426
·Displaying Default Settings 427
·Understanding Object Permissions 428
·Listing Objects 429
·Displaying Objects 430
* Summary 431
* Questions 432
* Answers 433
Chapter 34 Admintool 435
* Managing Users 435
* Managing Groups 441
* Summary 442
* Questions 442
* Answers 442
Chapter 35 JumpStart-Automatic Installation 443
* Introducing JumpStart 443
* Boot Servers 444
* Install Servers 444
* Boot Clients 445
* sysidcfg 446
* Summary 447
* Questions 447
* Answers 448
Chapter 36 Configuring and Using the CDE 449
* Using CDE 449
·dtlogin 450
·CDE Workspace 451
* Launching Applications 455
·File Manager 458
·Text Editor 459
·Mailer 460
·Calendar 461
·Web Browser 461
·Console 463
·Calculator 464
·Performance Meter 465
·Print Manager 466
·Image Viewer 466
·Snapshot 467
·Icon Editor 468
·Style Manager 468
·Help 470
·Answer Book 2 470
* Summary 471
* Questions 471
* Answers 472
Appendix A Solaris Administration Quick Reference 473
Index 555