SA-399: Network Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System 

SA-399 Duration 5 Days


The Network Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System (Solaris OS) course provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to perform network administration tasks, such as configuration and troubleshooting of a local area network (LAN). This course also provides hands-on experience with topics, such as Internet Protocol (IP) routing, Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) and IP version 6 (IPv6). 
 

Who Can Benefit

Students who can benefit from this course are experienced system administrators who are or will be responsible for administering Sun systems in a networked environment that includes LANs and the Solaris OS.
 

Prerequisites


To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:
  • Install, configure, and maintain a Solaris OS product line server
  • Change system run levels
  • Read and edit system resource files

     

    • Skills Gained

    Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
  • Configure routing and routing tables
  • Configure subnet masks, including variable length masks
  • Configure DHCP clients and servers
  • Configure DNS
  • Configure a Network Time Protocol (NTP) server and client
  • Configure a system as an IPv6 host or router
  • Configure IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels
  • Troubleshoot network problems

     

    • Related Courses

    Before:
  • Advanced System Administration for the Solaris 9 Operating System (SA-299)

    • After:
  • Solaris System Performance Management (SA-400)
  • Administering Security on the Solaris Operating System (SC-300)
  • LDAP Design and Deployment (IN-350)
     

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    Course Content

    Module 1 - Introducing the TCP/IP Model
  • Describe network model fundamentals
  • Describe the layers of the TCP/IP model
  • Describe basic peer-to-peer communication and related protocols


    • Module 2 - Introducing LANs and Their Components
  • Describe network topologies
  • Describe LAN media
  • Describe network devices

    • Module 3 - Describing Ethernet Interfaces
  • Describe Ethernet concepts
  • Describe Ethernet frames
  • Use network utilities


    • Module 4 - Describing ARP and RARP
  • Describe ARP
  • Describe RARP

    • Module 5 - Configuring IP
  • Describe the Internet layer protocols
  • Describe the IP datagram
  • Describe IP address types
  • Describe subnetting and VLSMs
  • Describe the interface configuration files
  • Administer logical interfaces


    • Module 6 - Configuring Multipathing
  • Increase network throughput and availability
  • Implement multipathing


    • Module 7 - Configuring Routing
    Configuring Routing
  • Identify the fundamentals of routing
  • Describe route table population
  • Describe routing protocol types
  • Describe the route table
  • Configure static routing
  • Configure dynamic routing
  • Describe classless inter-domain routing (CIDR)
  • Configure boot time routing
  • Troubleshoot routing


    • Module 8 - Configuring IPv6
  • Describe IPv6
  • Describe IPv6 addressing
  • Describe IPv6 autoconfiguration
  • Describe IPv6 unicast address types
  • Describe IPv6 multicast address types
  • Enable IPv6
  • Manage IPv6
  • Configure IPv6-over-IPv4 tunnels
  • Configure IPv6 multipathing


    • Module 9 - Describing the Transport Layer
  • Describe Transport layer fundamentals
  • Describe UDP
  • Describe TCP
  • Describe TCP flow control


    • Module 10 - Configuring DNS
  • Describe the DNS basics
  • Configure the DNS server
  • Troubleshoot the DNS server using basic utilities

    • Module 11 - Configuring DHCP
  • Describe the fundamentals of DHCP
  • Configure a DHCP server
  • Configure and manage DHCP clients
  • Configure for dynamic DNS
  • Configure a DHCP server to support JumpStart clients

    • Module 12 - Configuring NTP
  • Identify NTP basics
  • Configure an NTP server
  • Configure an NTP client
  • Troubleshoot NTP
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