Overview of Solaris System
Various parts of an operating system
Important parts of the kernel
Major services in a UNIX system
Installation, customization and administration of Solaris OS
User Administration
File System and File system background
Partitioning and Formatting
Kernel Upgrade
Memory, Swap space management
System Monitoring
File system monitoring
Monitoring users and resources
Boots and shutdown
The boot process in closer look
Multiple system init level
Switching to multple init levels
Services supported on each levels.
Rebooting and emergency booting
Loging in and out
Login via terminal, network, ssh etc
Initialization files, Access control
Backup
Methods of backup and difference / advantage of each backup
Backup media and tools
Simple backup, multilevel backup
Compressed backup
Automatics tasks using scripts, at and cronjobs
Third party tools - hudson, jenkin etc
Time
The concept of localtime.
The hardware and software clocks
Showing and setting time
When the clock is wrong
NTP - Network Time Protocol
Basic NTP configuration
NTP Toolkit
Some known NTP servers
NTP Links
Overview of the Directory Tree
Background
The root filesystem
The /etc directory
The /dev directory
The /usr filesystem.
The /var filesystem
The /proc filesystem
Hardware, Devices, and Tools
Hardware Utilities
Kernel Modules
Using Disks and Other Storage Media
Two kinds of devices
Hard disks