Solaris Training Courses

  • Introduction to Solaris January 26th Duration 2 days, Price £500 (more details)
  • Solaris Utilities and Shell Programming January 28th Duration 3 days, Price £750 (more details)
  • Solaris 10 Administration – Part 1 February 2nd Duration 5 days, Price £1300 (more details)
  • Solaris 10 Administration – Part 2 February 9th Duration 2 days, Price £550 (more details)
  • Solaris 10 Advanced System Administration February 11th Duration 3 days, Price £825 (more details)
  • Solaris 10 Network Administration February 16th Duration 5 days, Price £1400 (more details)
  • Solaris 10 Update Workshop (Solaris 10 New Features for Experienced Administrators) (more details>
  • Solaris Certification – coming soon

All ForLinux courses are delivered by Industry renowned experts who are experienced users of the software as well as being professional trainers. Courses are run within our brand new purpose built training centre within the ForLinux Head Office building, based in Newark, Notts.

For further information on the courses and for the latest training dates, please contact our team on 0845 4210 430.

Introduction to Solaris

Our Introduction to Solaris course covers Solaris fundamentals, but in a practical and thorough way. You’ll feel confident and eager to learn more, and will have all the skills necessary to handle day-to-day Solaris sessions. Many people comment that this is a “well-rounded” course, and sets them up perfectly to progress further. Logging in, file manipulation, directory skills, documentation, vi editor, file permissions, processes, shell command-line skills (IO control, history, aliases, using quotes) Want more? Utilities overview, and Gnome window system are also covered, plus to finish off, a network services overview. A truly comprehensive course which provides the best possible springboard into your Solaris career.

Solaris Utilities and Shell Programming
If you administrate Solaris, or look after applications support (or a hundred other similar technical roles!) then our Solaris Utilities and Shell Programming course provides essential skills to get the absolute most out of the Solaris system. The two main areas covered are Solaris utilities (the nawk, sed, grep and sort variety, plus many others including tar, dd and find; Oh, and differential commands such as comm and diff) and Bourne/Korn shell programming. These sections will give you the skills required to write (and understand) complex shell command procedures to automate many tasks such as reports, backups, adding users, data manipulation, system monitoring, and so much more. You’ll also learn the more intricate and powerful aspects of the vi editor (Not too long on this though!) A real power-users course designed to make the most of Solaris.

Solaris 10 Administration – Part 1
Essential skills for successful and secure systems administration. Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 1), the first in a series of four admin courses, concentrates on the important areas common to all workstations, such as Solaris installation, software management the admin SMC GUI tools, Startup and Shutdown, File system management and security, taking backups AND restoring (even a complete system!), plus adding printers and disks. Everyone who needs to look after a Solaris system should start here. This course is the equivalent of the Sun SA-200-S10 Solaris Administration Part 1 course, but it covers more for a lot less money! This course provides preparation for the Solaris Certified Systems Administrator (SCSA) Part 1 exam.

Solaris 10 Administration – Part 2
For those who manage networked Solaris machines, the Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 2) course is as essential as the part 1 and covers all the skills necessary to successfully network your Solaris machines. You will understand how to physically connect them, then look at the IP address scheme and get machines talking. Network logical interfaces, IPMP (IP Multipathing) and basic routing commands are covered, as are basic access commands (ssh, etc) , security control, network processes and network monitoring. Move on to thoroughly explore the NFS (Network File System) file sharing mechanism including auto-mounting user home directories and others. Learn how to store and manage admin files centrally using the NIS name service (a full working set up of NIS is created) Set up basic SAMBA file sharing and Apache web server configurations. This course combined with the Solaris 10 Advanced Administration course are the equivalent of the Sun PK-SA-202A-S10 course, and provide preparation for the Solaris Certified Systems Administrator (SCSA) Part 2 exam. You need to pass both Parts 1 & 2 to become certified.

Solaris 10 Advanced System Administration
Solaris 10 Advanced System Administration is great 3-day course for those involved in larger networks, and professionals who need to have the broad range of skills to offer in todays Solaris market. Kernel parameters, X-Windows, Jump Start and Build servers, Flash Installs, Solaris Volume Manager (SVM), and many other topics. Disk Quotas, Crash and core dump management, Access Control Lists, RBAC, System Messaging and Log Management. The Solaris containers (Zones) facility for creating additional Solaris (and now Linux) environments on the same machine, and the ZFS file system – covered in detail. Again – a lot more for your money. This course combined with the Solaris 10 Administration Part 2 course are the equivalent of the Sun PK-SA-202A-S10 course. NOTE: We cover Jumpstart and Flash Installs in the classroom – not via later web-based materials, so you get full hands-on experience with these topics. Additional notes are provided for self-study covering Solaris Live Upgrade and WAN boot installs.

Solaris 10 Network Administration
This five-day Solaris 10 Network Administration course is designed to cover Solaris network administration in depth and is an extension to our Solaris 10 System Administration (Part 1), Solaris 10 Systems Administration
(Part 2) and Solaris Advanced Administration (S2ASA) courses. This course covers many networking topics, including the TCP/IP model; network topologies, media, interfaces and utilities; ARP and RARP; configuring IP; IPMP (Multipathing); routing; IPV6 (IP version 6); DNS (Domain Name System); DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol); NTP (Network Time Protocol) and IP Filter Firewall. Additional topics are also covered, including Link Aggregations with dladm, Wireless Network configuration, and ISCSI configuration, with full hands-on experience at all stages. This course is comparable with the Sun SA-300-S10 course and leads to the Solaris Certified Network Administrator CX-310-302 exam.

Solaris 10 Update Workshop (Solaris 10 New Features for Experienced Administrators)
Solaris 10 Update Workshop this workshop is intended for Solaris Administrators who wish to quickly get up to speed with the new features of Solaris 10. It covers all the major new facilities, in a workshop environment, providing extensive hands-on practicals.

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