Solaris

Dear All,

I am currently working as Unix Operator. I am looking forward for Unix Solaris Administration.
I need everyone's guidance on this forum, please advice me from where should i start. well i have already installed Solaris version on X86.
So please let me know what should i do to become good Admin.
Hopefully GURU's & Masters here will help me.
Thanks in Advance

Thanks,
Imran

@imrankhan.in

google.com is the best guru, he has every answers, if you know the correct question....

Start from google, of course members of this forum are always there...

best of luck

in these days there is so much to know... what kind of admin? i've done administration in the storage and san area for a while... so what do you want to do? the easiest thing to do with a single computer would be user administration. learn how to setup a new user/group and how to give/take rights to/from them. learn about quotas... rbac, acl, dns, nis, ldap... also ntp...

good luck!

Thanks Duke/rcmrullz ,

Yes i have already installed Solaris on X86, but i am confused like what kind of things i can do on it? but thanks Duke i will on below mentioned points by you.
Obviously i have started with Google, that is the way i have found you pals.
Anyways i have already applied for Solaris Admin Job but i am scared now as i don't know more then commands.
Please help me with some technical questions like a) if the system crash what is admin's prime duty.
It will help me a lot and definately my career will change.

Thanks
Imran

Hi,

Every good Solaris Admin should be aware of the following, notice I said aware and not be an expert... Because once you're aware you're half way there

How to check log files. (mem/CPU/Disk/Network)
Understand users/groups/shares/file permissions
How to get the server on the networked (Static/DHCP)
Basic understanding of inodes/Super blocks/fsck
UFS and ZFS file systems / Formatting / Partitioning / Mounting / quotas......
DNS/TCP-IP knowledge
Basic email systems knowledge
Basic Routing knowledge (e.g How traffic gets from one place to another on sub-nets)
Basic Knowledge Of Ports and Sessions/how firewalls work
Basic knowledge of how backups work ( Full/Incremental/Differential)
Different run level start up scripts and svcs/svcadm....
remote tools (ssh,telnet,rlogin,rsh,scp,rsync)

......... And after all that then you have to start learning the tools and applications that go on top...Well hope this helps and good luck.

I'm sure i've missed alot of stuff here, so if anyone had anything to add feel free.

System Administration Guide: Basic Administration - Sun Microsystems

I'd start by browsing through the manuals. You don't need to read line-by-line but get a good idea of what's available to you when you need it.

You might consider purchasing an Oreilly or two. Basic administration and TCPIP.

I'd browse these forums to get an idea of what other admins are dealing with.

Learn about the main applications running on your systems. tomcat jboss oracle.

Basically read all you can.

You should practice yourself in sparc, intel it's easy because it's pc. Most of the companies use sparc instead of intel.

If your not sure of what your doing or if you haven't done it before, test it first on your test server. Being a Unix SA is FATAL because if the server of the company is down, no revenue.