Oracle Solaris: Basic administration and troubleshooting of unix-like Operating System
| Code | Completion | Credits | Range | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A4M33UAS | KZ | 3 | 1+1c | Czech |
- Lecturer:
- Martin Karáč
- Tutor:
- Martin Karáč
- Supervisor:
- Department of Cybernetics
- Synopsis:
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The seminar focuses on main features of Oracle Solaris operating systems. It aims to present Solaris administration tasks and tools to users of other operating systems (mainly Linux), with the goal of providing certain overview of the different approaches to administration in the Unix world. The course is available to students of all levels. Level of Unix administration skills is expected to vary greatly among the audience. Course level will be adapted to the prevalent skill level, while at the same
time there will be reasonable effort to make everyone benefit from the topics covered.
- Requirements:
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Requirements for graded credits: the main evaluation factor is the final hands-on demonstration of Solaris administration skills. It will also be possible to obtain the credits in advance, in accordance with current
Czech Technical University regulations, by presenting a short (up to 10 min.) practical presentationon a previously agreed topic. More information
- Syllabus of lectures:
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1. Installation (different sources and methods, customizations)
2. Package management (SVR4, IPS, command-line and GUI tools, repositories)
3. Basic administration (users and roles, runlevels, services, media)
4. Device management (naming conventions, formatting, mounting, backup and restore)
5. Network management (IPv4 and IPv6 interface configuration, wifi, name services)
6. Predictive Self Healing (FMA, SMF)
7. ZFS
8. LiveUpgrade and boot environment management
9. Zones
10. Virtualization
11. System diagnostics (logs, finding HW problems, performance monitoring)
12. mdb
13. DTrace
- Syllabus of tutorials:
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seminar, consisting mainly (80%) of lectures and partly
(20%) of student exercises on provided computers.
- Study Objective:
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To provide basic knowledge needed for Oracle Solaris operating system administration. To point out main differences between Linux and Solaris and to present the basics of Solaris diagnostic tools operation.
- Study materials:
- Note:
- Further information:
- No time-table has been prepared for this course
- The course is a part of the following study plans: