Course Overview

This course enables a new system operator to develop basic to intermediate level skills needed for day-to-day operations of IBM i. Specifically, the course explains how to:

  • Use the online help and references
  • Send, display, and reply to messages
  • Monitor and control jobs, devices, and job and output queues 
  • Start and stop the system
  • Create and change user profiles
  • Use authorization lists and group profiles
  • Manage system configuration
  • Save and restore objects, libraries, and the system
  • Monitor job and history logs
  • Diagnose a system problem
  • Order, receive, and apply PTFs 
  • Perform all of these functions using a 5250 emulation session as well as IBM i Access Client Solutions and IBM Navigator for i

Hands-on exercises reinforce the lecture topics and prepare the student to successfully operate an IBM Power environment that runs IBM i.

Virtual Learning

This interactive training can be taken from any location, your office or home and is delivered by a trainer. This training does not have any delegates in the class with the instructor, since all delegates are virtually connected. Virtual delegates do not travel to this course, Global Knowledge will send you all the information needed before the start of the course and you can test the logins.

Course Objectives

On completion participants will be able to:

  • Send, display, and respond to messages
  • Use the on-line help and reference material
  • Monitor and control job queues, active jobs and output queues
  • Create and change User Profiles
  • Use authorization lists and group profiles
  • Start and Stop the Operating System
  • Manage system devices, user display stations and printers S
  • ave and restore objects and libraries Monitor job and history logs
  • Diagnose System problems Order, receive and install PTFs.

Course Content

  • Unit 1. IBM Power and IBM i concepts and overview
  • Unit 2. Reference material and support
  • Unit 3. Overview of IBM i Access Client Solutions
  • Unit 4. Overview of 5250 emulation and help
  • Unit 5. Overview of IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 6. Messaging concepts
  • Unit 7. Messaging using 5250 emulation
  • Unit 8. Messaging with IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 9. CL command concepts
  • Unit 10.CL commands with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 11.Concepts: Object, library, and the IFS
  • Unit 12.Object management with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 13.Object management with IBM i Access Client Solutions
  • Unit 14.Introduction to work management
  • Unit 15.Work management with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 16.Job control with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 17.Job control with IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 18.Print concepts
  • Unit 19.Print control with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 20.IBM i Access Client Solutions printer output
  • Unit 21.Print control with IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 22.Starting and stopping the system
  • Unit 23.IBM i security concepts
  • Unit 24.System security with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 25.System security with IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 26.System configuration overview
  • Unit 27.Configuration with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 28.Configuration with IBM Navigator for i
  • Unit 29.Control language programming
  • Unit 30.IBM DB2 for i introduction
  • Unit 31.Save concepts
  • Unit 32.Save with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 33.Restore concepts and overview
  • Unit 34.Problem determination with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 35.Overview of the PTF process
  • Unit 36.PTFs with 5250 emulation
  • Unit 37.Storage management
  • Unit 38.Introduction to IBM i performance tuning

Course Overview

This is a 4-day ILT course that is designed to provide students with the knowledge and skills required to support and troubleshoot Windows 11 PCs and devices in an on-premises Windows Server Active Directory domain environment.

These skills include understanding:

– Important Windows 11 features

– How these features are used in an Active Directory

– How to troubleshoot these features

Course Objectives

By the end of this course students will be able to;

  • Describe the processes involved in planning and using a troubleshooting methodology for Windows 11.
  • Troubleshoot startup issues and operating system services on a Windows 11 PC.
  • Perform system recovery.
  • Resolve issues related to hardware devices and device drivers.
  • Administer Windows 11 devices.
  • Troubleshoot issues related to network connectivity.
  • Configure Windows 11 devices by using Group Policy.
  • Configure and troubleshoot user settings.
  • Configure and troubleshoot resource access.
  • Implement remote connectivity.
  • Deploy and troubleshoot applications.
  • Maintain Windows 11 devices.

Course Content

Module 1: Introducing Windows 11

This module describes the new Windows 11 operating system features and devices, with a particular focus on what’s changed since Windows 10. The modules also describes the process of developing and applying a Windows 11 troubleshooting methodology.

Lessons for Module 1:

  • Overview of Windows 11
  • New features in Windows 11
  • Highlight significant changes from Windows 10
  • Brief overview of UI changes
  • Includes overview of system architecture, including both Linux and Androidsubsystems
  • Troubleshooting installation and deployment
  • Overview of required hardware, identifying differences from Windows 10
  • Describe common reasons why devices cannot upgrade to Windows 11
  • Recommendations for typical troubleshooting procedures
  • Introduction to troubleshooting tools
  • Task Manager
  • Resource Monitor
  • Performance Monitor
  • Review of revised Settings app

Module 2: Administering Windows 11 Remotely

This module describes how to use the various remote administration tools in Windows 11 to resolve issues. It describes the features and functionalities of tools such as Windows Admin Center, Remote Desktop, Quick Assist, and Windows PowerShell.

Lessons for Mdoule 2:

  • Overview of administration tools
  • Using Remote Desktop
  • Using Quick Assist
  • Using Windows Admin Center
  • Introduction to Windows PowerShell
  • Remoting with Windows PowerShell
  • Enabling PowerShell Remoting
  • Trusted hosts
  • Introduction to provisioning

Module 3: Troubleshooting startup and performing system recovery

This module describes potential problems that can cause startup issues in Windows 11. It also provides an overview of the Windows startup process, including the Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and Boot Configuration Data (BCD). It also describes how to resolve issues related to operating system services and how to recover a computer.

Lessons for Module 3:

  • Overview of the Windows 11 Recovery Environment
  • Configuring the Registry
  • Troubleshooting startup settings
  • Recovering BitLocker-protected drives
  • Troubleshooting OS service Issues
  • Recovering a computer

Module 4: Troubleshooting devices and device drivers

This module explores how to troubleshoot issues related to hardware devices and device drivers.

Lessons for Module 4:

  • Overview of hardware troubleshooting
  • Group Policy settings than can control/inhibit hardware installation
  • Troubleshooting device driver failures

Module 5: Configuring and troubleshooting network connectivity

This module describes how to identify network settings and troubleshoot issues related to network connectivity in wired and wireless networks, IPv4 and IPv6 connectivity, and name resolution. This module also provides an overview of Remote Access and describes how to troubleshoot issues with VPN connectivity.

Lessons for Module 5:

  • Identifying incorrectly configured network and TCP/IP settings
  • Overview of IPv4 subnet addressing to help identify incorrectly configured devices
  • Determining Network Settings
  • Troubleshooting network connectivity
  • Troubleshooting name resolution
  • Overview of remote access
  • Troubleshooting issues with VPN connectivity

Module 6: Troubleshooting Group Policy

This module provides an overview of Group Policy application and describes how to resolve issues in client configuration GPO application.

Lessons for Mdoule 6:

  • Overview of Group Policy
  • Resolving client-configuration failures and GPO application issues

Module 7: Configuring and Troubleshooting Security Settings

This module describes various security settings in Windows 11, including Credential Guard, Exploit Guard, and Application Guard. Windows Hello authentication is also covered, in addition to common sign-in issues, how to detect them, and how to troubleshoot these issues. The module also explains ways to secure the startup environment, including Secure Boot and related technologies.

Lessons for Module 7:

  • Overview of Secure Boot, Trusted Boot, Measured Boot
  • UEFI settings
  • TPM requirements
  • Implementing network security with Windows Defender Firewall and Windows Defender Firewall with Advanced Security
  • Implementing Credential Guard, Exploit Guard, and Application Guard
  • Configuring Windows Hello
  • Troubleshooting sign-in issues

Module 8: Configuring and Troubleshooting User State

This module provides guidance on configuring and troubleshooting user state synchronization in an on-premises network. This includes managing roaming profiles, UE-V, and folder redirection.

Lessons for Module 8:

  • Troubleshooting the application of user settings
  • Configuring and troubleshooting UE-V
  • Configuring and troubleshooting Folder Redirection

Module 9: Configuring and Troubleshooting Resource Access

This module describes how to troubleshoot issues with file permissions and printer access. It also describes how to configure and manage file recovery in Windows 11.

Lessons for Mdoule 9:

  • Troubleshooting file permissions issues
  • Troubleshooting issues with printers
  • Performing File Recovery in Windows 11

Module 10: Troubleshooting applications

This module explains how to troubleshoot common desktop application operations issues. It also describes the Universal Windows apps and the Microsoft Store. The module also explains how to resolve issues related to Application Control and AppLocker policies. Finally, the module covers how to enable and configure Kiosk mode.

Lessons for Module 10:

  • Troubleshooting desktop apps
  • Managing Universal Windows apps
  • Overview of Application Control
  • Troubleshooting AppLocker Policy application
  • Troubleshooting application compatibility Issues
  • Configuring Kiosk mode

Module 11: Maintaining Windows 11

This module describes how to identify performance issues in Windows 11. It also explains how to manage and troubleshoot Windows updates.

Lessons for Module 11:

  • Monitoring and troubleshooting Computer Performance
  • Overview of Windows Update
  • Configuring Windows Update for Business
  • Troubleshooting Windows updates


Classroom Live Labs

Lab: Using Windows 11 Troubleshooting Tools

  • Use Windows 11 troubleshooting tools

Lab: Administering Windows 11 remotely

  • Implement Remote Desktop
  • Manage remote computers using Windows PowerShell

Lab: Troubleshooting startup and performing system recovery

  • Explore Windows RE
  • Resolve a startup issue
  • Configure and recover BitLocker
  • Recover a computer after failure

Lab: Troubleshooting devices and device drivers

  • Troubleshoot missing drivers
  • Resolve a hardware issue

Lab: Configuring and troubleshooting network connectivity

  • Troubleshoot a network connectivity issue
  • Troubleshoot name resolution
  • Troubleshoot remote access

Lab: Troubleshooting Group Policy

  • Troubleshoot the application of GPOs on client devices

Lab: Configuring and Troubleshooting Security Settings

  • Resolve a sign-in issue

Lab: Configuring and Troubleshooting User State

  • Configure UE/V
  • Configure Folder Redirection
  • Troubleshoot Folder Redirection

Lab: Configuring and Troubleshooting Resource Access

  • Resolve a file access issue
  • Troubleshoot printing
  • Recover files

Lab: Troubleshooting applications

  • Troubleshoot AppLocker
  • Provision a kiosk device

Lab: Maintaining Windows 11

  • Review computer performance
  • Configure Windows Update

Course Overview

This Solaris Korn Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing SOLARIS shell scripts. Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures. This course is not suitable for C shell programmers.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

This Solaris Shell Programming course provides the skills needed to develop and customise shell programs.

Course Content

Solaris Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: SOLARIS COMMAND REVIEW

  • Basic Unix commands
  • General commands
  • File and directory handling commands
  • Filename generation and regular expression characters
  • I/O Redirection features
  • Other commands

Session 2: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a shell script?
  • Development guidelines
  • Creating and editing shell scripts
  • Naming and storing shell scripts
  • Executing shell scripts
  • Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 3: USING VARIABLES

  • Environment variables
  • Local variables
  • Assigning values to variables
  • Assessing variable values
  • Using quotes
  • Delimiting variable names
  • Echo control sequences
  • Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 4: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

  • Using the expr command
  • Using the (( )) notation
  • Exercise: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 5: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

  • The read command
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
  • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 6: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

  • The if statement
  • The test command
  • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

Session 7: ADDITIONAL KORN,BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

  • Other test notations
  • Default and substitute variables
  • Exit status codes
  • Exercise

Solaris Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 8: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

  • The while loop
  • The until loop
  • The for loop
  • The while true and until false loops
  • Loop control commands
  • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
  • Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a ‘for’ loop
  • Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the ‘while’ loop

Session 9: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

  • The case statement
  • Menu driven applications
  • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 10: SCRIPTING WITH AWK

  • Fundamentals of AWK
  • Basic AWK scripts
  • AWK within Bash constructs
  • Exercise: AWK scripts

Session 11: FUNCTIONS

  • What is a function?
  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Creating a Function Library
  • Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 12: INTERRUPT HANDLING

  • Interrupt signals
  • Trapping interrupts
  • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Appendix A: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

  • The exec commands
  • The includes notation
  • More about loops
  • Arrays

Appendix B: VIM QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix C: UNIX COMMANDS QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix D: ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

Course Overview

This Solaris Korn Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing shell scripts. Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures. The course also gives practical experience using a range of Solaris tools to manipulate text and incorporate into Solaris shell scripts.

Course Objectives

To provide the skills needed to develop and customise shell programs and to make effective use of a wide range of standard Solaris programming and development tools.

Course Content

Solaris Korn Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW

  • Basic Unix commands
  • General commands
  • File and directory handling commands
  • Filename generation characters
  • I/O Redirection features
  • Other commands

Session 2: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a shell script?
  • Development guidelines
  • Creating and editing shell scripts
  • Naming and storing shell scripts
  • Executing shell scripts
  • Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 3: USING VARIABLES

  • Environment variables
  • Local variables
  • Assigning values to variables
  • Assessing variable values
  • Using quotes
  • Delimiting variable names
  • Echo control sequences
  • Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 4: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

  • Using the expr command
  • Using the (( )) notation
  • Exercises: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 5: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

  • The read command
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
  • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 6: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

  • The if statement
  • The test command
  • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

Session 7: ADDITIONAL KORN,BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

  • Other test notations
  • Default and substitute variables
  • Exit status codes
  • Exercise

Solaris Korn Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 8: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

  • The while loop
  • The until loop
  • The for loop
  • The while true and until false loops
  • Loop control commands
  • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
  • Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a ‘for’ loop
  • Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the ‘while’ loop

Session 9: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

  • The case statement
  • Menu driven applications
  • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 10: SCRIPTING WITH AWK

  • Fundamentals of AWK
  • Basic AWK scripts
  • AWK within Bash constructs
  • Exercise: AWK scripts

Session 11: FUNCTIONS

  • What is a function?
  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Creating a Function Library
  • Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 12: INTERRUPT HANDLING

  • Interrupt signals
  • Trapping interrupts
  • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Appendix A: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

  • The exec commands
  • The includes notation
  • More about loops
  • Arrays

Appendix B: VIM QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix C: UNIX COMMANDS QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix D: ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

Solaris Korn Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 13: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

  • Backing-up and restoring files
  • Basic and advanced use of tar
  • Compression utilities gzip,bzip2,zip and compress
  • Exercise: Backing up and restoring files using tar
  • Exercises: Compressing files

Session 14: BACKGROUND JOB SCHEDULING

  • Scheduling jobs with the cron command
  • Scheduling jobs with the at command
  • Exercises: Running background jobs

Session 15: COMMANDS FOR COMPARING FILES

  • Compare files with the cmp command
  • Compare and format files with pr
  • Compare files with the comm command
  • Compare files with the diff and sdiff commands
  • Compare large files with the bdiff command
  • Exercises: Identifying file differences

Session 16: SPLITTING FILES

  • The fold command
  • Split files using context and content rules
  • Exercises: Splitting files

Solaris Korn Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 17: IDENTIFYING AND TRANSLATING CHARACTERS

  • od – octal dump
  • Use cat to display non-printing characters
  • View and format files with nl
  • The expand and unexpand commands to convert between tab and space characters
  • The tr command for character translation
  • Exercises: Translating characters with tr

Session 18: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION REVIEW

  • Standard regular expressions
  • Searching with grep
  • Metacharacters,positional characters and quantifiers
  • Extended regular expressions
  • POSIX character classes
  • PERL expressions

Session 19: THE STREAM EDITOR sed

  • sed command line syntax
  • sed script files
  • sed command processing
  • sed addresses and simple instructions
  • sed pattern space and hold space
  • Grouping sed commands
  • Hold and get functions
  • Advanced flow control
  • Write output to temporary files
  • Exercises: Text processing with sed

Session 20: FUNDAMENTALS OF AWK

  • Basic AWK usage
  • AWK program-files
  • AWK scripts
  • AWK variables
  • Pattern matching with AWK
  • AWK extended patterns

Session 21: AWK OPERATORS

  • AWK operators
  • AWK arithmetic operations
  • AWK output
  • Formatting output with printf
  • Exercises: Create awk scripts to extract selected data from a file and generate reports

Solaris Korn Shell Programming Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 5

Session 22: AWK PROGRAM CONTROL STRUCTURES

  • The BEGIN and END functions
  • The AWK if construct
  • The AWK else if construct
  • The AWK while construct
  • Other program control statements
  • The AWK break,continue and exit statements
  • User defined functions
  • Exercises: Create AWK scripts and program-files utilising program control structures

Session 23: AWK FUNCTIONS

  • AWK string functions
  • AWK length,tolower,toupper,index,sub,gsub,match,substr,split,sprintf,system and getline functions
  • Exercises: Generate AWK scripts and program-files to extract and format data using AWK functions

Session 24: AWK ARRAYS

  • AWK associative arrays
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Exercises: Create AWK associative arrays to process text files and generate reports

Session 25: MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS

  • bc (calculator)
  • fuser (testing for files in use)
  • getops (checking options passed to shell scripts)
  • printf (formatting screen output)
  • logger (script logging)
  • xargs (generating arguments for a command)
  • eval (re-evaluating variables)
  • Exercises: Using tools within a shell script

Course Overview

Solaris Introduction Course Overview

This Solaris Operating System training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the SOLARIS Operating System. The most commonly used commands and utilities are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced.

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Oracle Solaris curriculum for certification.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered

Course Objectives

This Solaris Introduction course provides the skills needed to work productively in the SOLARIS environment.

Course Content

Solaris Introduction Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM

  • A brief history of UNIX / Linux
  • The UNIX / Linux kernel
  • The UNIX / Linux file system structure
  • File and directory management commands
  • Absolute vs Relative Pathnames
  • Further basic commands
  • Exercise: Navigating the file system

Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS

  • Command line syntax
  • Basic file handling commands
  • Basic Directory handling commands
  • Filename wildcard characters
  • Using commands with logical AND and OR
  • Sequential command execution
  • Exercise: Manipulating files and directories

Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES

  • Input and Output redirection
  • Redirecting errors
  • Piping commands
  • Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities

Solaris Introduction Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi/Vim EDITOR

  • Overview of the vi/Vim editor
  • The language of vi
  • Undoing and Redoing changes
  • Input Mode and Last Line Mode
  • Further vi functions
  • Executing commands within vi / Vim
  • Customising the vi / Vim Environment
  • Getting Help
  • Exercises: Using the vi editor

Session 5: SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT

  • Searching and replacing text using the vi/Vim editor
  • Using regular expressions (regex)
  • Using sed for search and replace
  • Searching for text with grep,egrep and fgrep
  • Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text

Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS

  • Overview
  • The bash shell
  • The korn shell
  • Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands

Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL

  • Users and user groups
  • File access permissions
  • Changing file attributes
  • Switching users and user groups
  • Linking files
  • Exercise: Setting and access permissions

Solaris Introduction Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 8: FILTERING AND FORMATTING TEXT

  • Overview
  • The paste command
  • The cut command
  • An introduction to awk
  • The nl command
  • Exercises: Filtering Text

Session 9: PROCESSES

  • What is a process?
  • Monitoring processes
  • Killing processes
  • Background processes
  • Job Control
  • Grouping commands
  • Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes

Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT

  • Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
  • Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
  • Exercise: Setting up an environment

Session 11: MORE BASIC COMMANDS

  • The find command
  • Using xargs command
  • The locate command
  • The df command
  • The cut command
  • The sort command
  • Finding duplicate content
  • Number sequencing
  • Exercise: More Basic Commands

Course Overview

This Solaris Operating System and Korn Shell Programming training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the SOLARIS Operating System. The most commonly used commands are described in detail as are the command line wildcard and redirection facilities. The mechanisms by which a user acquires a login environment are discussed and the main features of the Korn/Posix/Bash Shells are introduced.

The course is designed to give delegates practical experience in developing and writing shellscripts. Most of the built-in shell commands are introduced together with the main program control structures.

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Oracle Solaris curriculum for certification.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

The Solaris Fundamentals course provides the skills needed to work productively in a SOLARIS environment to develop and customise shell programs.

Course Content

Solaris Fundamentals Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INTRODUCTION TO THE SOLARIS OPERATING SYSTEM

  • A brief history of UNIX / Linux
  • The UNIX / Linux kernel
  • The UNIX / Linux file system structure
  • File and directory management commands
  • Absolute vs Relative Pathnames
  • Further basic commands
  • Exercise: Navigating the file system

Session 2: BASIC COMMANDS

  • Command line syntax
  • Basic file handling commands
  • Basic Directory handling commands
  • Filename wildcard characters
  • Using commands with logical AND and OR
  • Sequential command execution
  • Exercise: Manipulating files and directories

Session 3: REDIRECTION AND PIPES

  • Input and Output redirection
  • Redirecting errors
  • Piping commands
  • Exercise: Using redirection and pipe facilities

Solaris Fundamentals Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 4: INTRODUCTION TO THE vi/Vim EDITOR

  • Overview of the vi/Vim editor
  • The language of vi
  • Undoing and Redoing changes
  • Input Mode and Last Line Mode
  • Further vi functions
  • Executing commands within vi / Vim
  • Customising the vi / Vim Environment
  • Getting Help
  • Exercises: Using the vi editor

Session 5: SEARCHING AND REPLACING TEXT

  • Searching and replacing text using the vi/Vim editor
  • Using regular expressions (regex)
  • Using sed for search and replace
  • Searching for text with grep,egrep and fgrep
  • Exercises: Searching and Replacing Text

Session 6: RECALLING AND EDITING COMMANDS

  • Overview
  • The bash shell
  • The korn shell
  • Exercises: Recall and Edit Commands

Session 7: FILE PERMISSIONS AND ACCESS CONTROL

  • Users and user groups
  • File access permissions
  • Changing file attributes
  • Switching users and user groups
  • Linking files
  • Exercise: Setting and access permissions

Solaris Fundamentals Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 8: FILTERING AND FORMATTING TEXT

  • Overview
  • The paste command
  • The cut command
  • An introduction to awk
  • The nl command
  • Exercises: Filtering Text

Session 9: PROCESSES

  • What is a process?
  • Monitoring processes
  • Killing processes
  • Background processes
  • Job Control
  • Grouping commands
  • Exercise: Monitoring and controlling processes

Session 10: THE USER ENVIRONMENT

  • Customising the .profile or .bash_profile
  • Customising the .kshrc or .bashrc
  • Exercise: Setting up an environment

Session 11: MORE BASIC COMMANDS

  • The find command
  • Using xargs command
  • The locate command
  • The df command
  • The cut command
  • The sort command
  • Finding duplicate content
  • Number sequencing
  • Exercise: More Basic Commands

Solaris Fundamentals Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 12: UNIX COMMAND REVIEW

  • Basic Unix commands
  • General commands
  • File and directory handling commands
  • Filename generation and regular expression characters
  • I/O Redirection features
  • Other commands

Session 13: GETTING STARTED

  • What is a shell script?
  • Development guidelines
  • Creating and editing shell scripts
  • Naming and storing shell scripts
  • Executing shell scripts
  • Exercise: Write a simple shell script

Session 14: USING VARIABLES

  • Environment variables
  • Local variables
  • Assigning values to variables
  • Assessing variable values
  • Using quotes
  • Delimiting variable names
  • echo control sequences
  • Exercise: Add variables to a script

Session 15: INTEGER ARITHMETIC

  • Using the expr command
  • Using the (( )) notation
  • Exercise: Add integer arithmetic to a shell script

Session 16: HANDLING RUN TIME DATA

  • The read command
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise: Writing a generic shell script
  • Exercise: Writing an interactive shell script

Session 17: CONDITIONAL EXECUTION

  • The if statement
  • The test command
  • Exercise: Adding validation to previous scripts

Session 18: ADDITIONAL KORN,BASH & POSIX SYNTAX

  • Other test notations
  • Default and substitute variables
  • Exit status codes
  • Exercise

Solaris Fundamentals Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 5

Session 19: LOOP CONSTRUCTS

  • The while loop
  • The until loop
  • The for loop
  • The while true and until false loops
  • Loop control commands
  • Exercise: Enhancing the previously written scripts
  • Exercise: Writing a script to copy files using a ‘for’ loop
  • Exercise: Writing a script to generate numbers with the ‘while’ loop

Session 20: MULTI-BRANCH DECISIONS

  • The case statement
  • Menu driven applications
  • Exercise: Developing and writing a menu system

Session 21: SCRIPTING WITH AWK

  • Fundamentals of AWK
  • Basic AWK scripts
  • AWK within Bash constructs
  • Exercise: AWK scripts

Session 22: FUNCTIONS

  • What is a function?
  • Syntax
  • Examples
  • Exercise: Add a function to a script

Session 23: INTERRUPT HANDLING

  • Interrupt signals
  • Trapping interrupts
  • Exercise: Adding traps to the menu script

Appendix A: ADDITIONAL FEATURES AND FACILITIES

  • The exec commands
  • The includes notation
  • More about loops
  • Arrays

Appendix B: VIM QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix C: UNIX COMMANDS QUICK REFERENCE

Appendix D: ADDITIONAL EXERCISES

Course Overview

Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools Course Overview

This Solaris Korn Shell Programming training course is designed to give delegates practical experience using a range of Solaris tools to manipulate text and incorporate them into Solaris shell scripts.

Course Objectives

To provide the knowledge and skills to make effective use of a wide range of standard Solaris programming and development tools.

Course Content

Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Session 1: BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

  • Backing-up and restoring files
  • Basic and advanced use of tar
  • Compression utilities gzip,bzip2,zip and compress
  • Exercise: Backing up and restoring files using tar
  • Exercises: Compressing files

Session 2: BACKGROUND JOB SCHEDULING

  • Scheduling jobs with the cron command
  • Scheduling jobs with the at command
  • Exercises: Running background jobs

Session 3: COMMANDS FOR COMPARING FILES

  • Compare files with the cmp command
  • Compare and format files with pr
  • Compare files with the comm command
  • Compare files with the diff and sdiff commands
  • Compare large files with the bdiff command
  • Exercises: Identifying file differences

Session 4: SPLITTING FILES

  • The fold command
  • Split files using context and content rules
  • Exercises: Splitting files

Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

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Session 5: IDENTIFYING AND TRANSLATING CHARACTERS

  • od – octal dump
  • Use cat to display non-printing characters
  • View and format files with nl
  • The expand and unexpand commands to convert between tab and space characters
  • The tr command for character translation
  • Exercises: Translating characters with tr

Session 6: REGULAR EXPRESSION NOTATION REVIEW

  • Standard regular expressions
  • Searching with grep
  • Metacharacters,positional characters and quantifiers
  • Extended regular expressions
  • POSIX character classes
  • PERL expressions

Session 7: THE STREAM EDITOR sed

  • sed command line syntax
  • sed script files
  • sed command processing
  • sed addresses and simple instructions
  • sed pattern space and hold space
  • Grouping sed commands
  • Hold and get functions
  • Advanced flow control
  • Write output to temporary files
  • Exercises: Text processing with sed

Session 8: FUNDAMENTALS OF AWK

  • Basic AWK usage
  • AWK program-files
  • AWK scripts
  • AWK variables
  • Pattern matching with AWK
  • AWK extended patterns

Session 9: AWK OPERATORS

  • AWK AND,OR and range operators
  • AWK arithmetic operations
  • AWK output
  • Formatting output with printf
  • Exercises: Create awk scripts to extract selected data from a file and generate reports

Solaris Advanced Shell Programming Tools Training Course

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Session 10: AWK PROGRAM CONTROL STRUCTURES

  • The BEGIN and END functions
  • The AWK if construct
  • The AWK else if construct
  • The AWK while construct
  • Other program control statements
  • The AWK break,continue and exit statements
  • User defined functions
  • Exercises: Create AWK scripts and program-files utilising program control structures

Session 11: AWK FUNCTIONS

  • AWK string functions
  • AWK length,tolower,toupper,index,sub,gsub,match,substr,split,sprintf,system and getline functions
  • Exercises: Generate AWK scripts and program-files to extract and format data using AWK functions

Session 12: AWK ARRAYS

  • AWK associative arrays
  • Multi-dimensional arrays
  • Exercises: Create AWK associative arrays to process text files and generate reports

Session 13: MISCELLANEOUS TOOLS

  • bc (calculator)
  • fuser (testing for files in use)
  • getops (checking options passed to shell scripts)
  • printf (formatting screen output)
  • logger (script logging)
  • xargs (generating arguments for a command)
  • eval (re-evaluating variables)
  • Exercises: Using tools within a shell script

Course Overview

This Solaris System Administration training course will provide delegates with practical experience of configuring various aspects of an Oracle Solaris 11 system. This course extends the skills a delegate will have gained from attending the Solaris System Administration – Part 1 course.

Delegates will cover more specialised tasks such as configuring network failover,Zones,Role Based Access Control (RBAC),managing system performance and also gaining other skills which will help with preparing for the Oracle Certified Professional,Oracle Solaris 11 System Administrator (1Z0-822).

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Oracle Solaris curriculum for certification.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

Administering Solaris systems involves many specialised tasks including; monitoring system events with syslog,performing network installations,dealing with various aspects of the network environment and assigning system roles to users. Delegates taking this class will gain the necessary knowledge and skills to perform these tasks.

Course Content

Solaris 11 System Administration – Part II Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: CONFIGURING SMF

  • SMF Review
  • Troubleshooting Services
  • State Notification
  • SMF Properties
  • Listing Properties
  • Setting Properties
  • Network Properties
  • Configuring a new SMF Service
  • Exercise

Session 2: CONFIGURING THE IMAGE PACKAGING SYSTEM IPS

  • Configuring a local IPS repository
  • Configuring the repository server
  • Configuring access from network clients to a local IP repository
  • Installing signed packages
  • Publisher properties for signed packages
  • Managing package publishers
  • Managing multiple boot environments
  • Exercise

Session 3: INSTALLING SOLARIS 11 USING THE AUTOMATED INSTALLER

  • Introduction to the Automated Installer (AI)
  • Obtaining the AI
  • Setting up the requirements for the AI
  • Creating the installation service
  • Testing the first client
  • Tailoring AI to the requirements of the install client
  • Installation of software on the client
  • Specifying repositories
  • Specifying packages to install
  • Exercise

Solaris 11 System Administration – Part II Training Course

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Session 4: VIRTUAL NETWORKS

  • What is a Virtual Network?
  • Internal Virtual Networks
  • External Virtual Networks
  • Creating and Configuring a Virtual Network Device
  • Post Configuration Procedures
  • Exercise

Session 5: CONFIGURING NETWORKS AND NETWORK FAILOVERS

  • Configuring systems on a local network
  • Managing the network configuration profiles
  • Manual mode network configuration
  • Configuring link aggregations
  • Configuring IP multipathing (IPMP)
  • Exercise

Session 6: NETWORK FILE SYSTEM (NFS)

  • NFS Terminology
  • Configuring the NFS Server
  • Legacy Shares
  • ZFS Shares
  • Configuring the NFS Client
  • Autofs and /net
  • Exercise

Session 7: ZONES

  • Basic Description
  • Main Features and Benefits
  • Zone Configuration Settings and Characteristics
  • Creating Zones
  • Accessing Zones
  • Managing the Zone State
  • Zone System Processes
  • Exercise

Solaris 11 System Administration – Part II Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 3

Session 8: ZFS AND DATA STORAGE

  • ZFS Data Protection
  • ZFS RAID Modes
  • Backup and Recovery with Snapshots
  • Managing Disk Space with ZFS Properties
  • Exercise

Session 9: ROLE BASED ACCESS CONTROL (RBAC)

  • Traditional UNIX security vs RBAC
  • The RBAC security model
  • Associated files and attributes
  • Linking Attributes and their files together
  • Attribute file formats
  • Configuring RBAC: commands and files
  • Exercise

Session 10: AUDITING

  • What events create audit records
  • Audit plugins
  • Auditing terminology
  • Main auditing commands
  • Auditing with Solaris Zones
  • Determining what to audit
  • Displaying audit service settings
  • Changing the preselect audit classes
  • Assigning space for the audit trail
  • Viewing the audit trail
  • Displaying kernel audit statistics
  • Exercise

Solaris 11 System Administration – Part II Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 11: SYSLOG

  • The /etc/syslog.conf Configuration File
  • The M4 Utility
  • Editing the syslog.conf File
  • Testing syslogd Logging
  • Exercise

Session 12: DUMP FILE CONFIGURATION

  • Dump file definition
  • System crash dumps
  • Displaying the system crash dump configuration
  • Modifying the system crash dump configuration
  • Core dumps
  • Displaying the core dump configuration
  • Modifying the core dump configuration
  • Exercise

Session 13: MONITORING AND MANAGING PERFORMANCE

  • Monitoring Performance Procedures
  • Monitoring System Wide Resources
  • The sar,vmstat and iostat commands
  • Monitoring Processes Resources
  • The ps,prstat and top Commands
  • Responding to Resource problems
  • Exercise

Solaris 11 System Administration – Part II Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 5

Session 14: PROCESS PRIORITIES AND CLASSES

  • Process Scheduling
  • Scheduling Classes
  • Listing Classes and Priority Ranges
  • Managing Classes and Priorities
  • The dispadmin command
  • The priocntl command
  • Exercise

Course Overview

This Solaris 11 System Administration – Part I training course will give delegates practical experience in the administration of an Oracle Solaris 11 system.

Together with the Solaris Introduction course this event will enable the delegate to gain skills which will help them to prepare for the Oracle Certified Associate,Oracle Solaris 11 System Administrator exam (1Z0-821).

Having achieved the above certification plus attending the Solaris Systems Administration Part II course attendees will have gained much of the preparation required for sitting the Oracle Solaris Advanced Systems Administration exam (1Z0-822).

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Oracle Solaris curriculum for certification.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

Administering Solaris systems involves many standard tasks including; starting and shutting down a system,managing filesystems and performing regular backups. Delegates taking this course will gain the necessary knowledge and skills to perform these tasks.

Course Content

Solaris 11 System Administration – Part I Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: BOOT AND SHUTDOWN PROCEDURES

  • Boot procedures overview
  • Boot phases
  • Sparc Openboot
  • Modifying Sparc boot procedures
  • Intel BIOS and the Grub boot loader
  • Modifying Intel boot procedures
  • The init process
  • System run levels
  • Run control scripts
  • Shutdown procedures
  • Exercise

Session 2: SERVICE MANAGEMENT FACILITY

  • Basic features
  • The SMF environment
  • SMF and booting
  • SMF environmental structures
  • Service states
  • Managing services
  • Automatic SMF state notification
  • Exercise

Session 3: INSTALLING THE SOLARIS 11

  • Installation methods
  • Minimum installation requirements
  • Installation considerations
  • Disk partitioning
  • Logical disk names
  • Device drivers
  • Software packages
  • Network configuration
  • Performing an interactive installation
  • Checking the installed system

Solaris 11 System Administration – Part I Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 2

Session 4: IPS SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

  • Repositories
  • Package name format
  • Managing packages with the pkg command
  • List existing and searching for new packages
  • Updating existing and installing new packages
  • Checking existing packages
  • Managing packages with the GUI tool
  • Exercise

Session 5: DISK MANAGEMENT

  • Displaying disk information
  • Partitions/Slices
  • Naming conventions
  • Physical device names
  • Instance names
  • Logical device names
  • Block and character devices
  • Configuring new disk devices
  • Partitioning the disk
  • Exercise

Session 6: UFS FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

  • Disk based file systems
  • Main root sub-directories
  • Pseudo file systems
  • Components of a file system
  • Creating and mounting file systems
  • Automounting DVDs and USB Devices
  • Checking file systems
  • Checking free disk space
  • The df command
  • The quot command
  • The du command
  • Freeing disk space
  • Freeing up disk space with compression utilities
  • Rotating files with logadm
  • Exercise

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Session 7: UFS BACKUP AND RESTORE UTILITIES

  • Backup policy
  • Archive devices
  • The mt utility
  • The ufsdump utility
  • The ufsrestore utility
  • ufs Snapshots

Session 8: ZFS FILE SYSTEM MANAGEMENT

  • Requirements
  • Main features
  • ZFS tools
  • Managing ZFS Pools with zpool
  • Pool storage devices
  • Pool configuration features
  • Creating and deleting Pools
  • Viewing pool status
  • Managing file systems with ZFS
  • Creating and destroying a file system
  • Mounting and unmounting filesystems
  • Snapshots and Clones
  • Creating,destroying and displaying Snapshots and Clones
  • ZFS properties
  • Read-Only native properties
  • Settable native properties
  • Exercise

Session 9: FILE PERMISSIONS REVIEW

  • Basic file permissions
  • Changing permissions
  • Default permissions
  • Extended permissions
  • Changing the Owner
  • Changing the Group
  • Exercise

Solaris 11 System Administration – Part I Training Course

Course Contents – DAY 4

Session 10: USER MANAGEMENT

  • User accounts
  • Files used in creating a user
  • Adding a user
  • Changing user details
  • Deleting a user
  • User group maintenance
  • Password administration
  • Password command
  • Securing logins and passwords
  • Local and remote login control
  • Login logs
  • Message of the day file
  • Exercise

Session 11: DISK QUOTAS

  • UFS Quotas
  • Creating the Quotas files
  • Adding Quota checks and enabling
  • Add the Quota option to the /etc/vfstab File
  • Establish Quotas for individual users
  • Turning Quotas on and off
  • Turning on Quotas for ZFS
  • Setting ZFS Quotas for users and groups
  • Check spaced used for users and groups
  • Exercise

Session 12: THE USER LOGIN ENVIRONMENT

  • Shell configuration
  • Shell variables
  • Command aliases
  • Executing commands
  • Creating a permanent environment (profiles and rc files)
  • Customising the environment
  • Exercise

Solaris 11 System Administration – Part I Training Course

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Session 13: MANAGING PROCESSES

  • Introduction to process management
  • The ps command
  • The prstat and top commands
  • The kill command
  • The ‘p series of commands
  • Debugging processes
  • Background jobs
  • Using the cron processes
  • Cron files
  • Creating crontab entries
  • Amending existing crontab files
  • Crontab command options
  • The at command
  • Exercise

Session 14: NETWORKING ADMINISTRATION

  • Network addressing – IPv4
  • Network masks and subnets
  • Routing
  • Location of network information
  • SMF network properties
  • Network Profiles
  • Network Interfaces and Datalinks
  • Manual and automatic configuration
  • Managing Datalinks
  • Managing Interfaces
  • Exercise

Session 15: ADMINISTERING ZONES

  • Features and benefits
  • Configuration settings
  • Viewing a zone configuration
  • Starting up and shutting down zones
  • Logging in and out of a Zone
  • Monitoring a zone
  • Exercise

Course Overview

his course is designed to provide the SMP/E skills needed in the installation and maintenance of optional features and maintenance in the z/OS operating environment. You are taught to define the SMP/E database and invoke SMP/E to add, modify, or replace system elements. The course includes extensive hands-on labs using a current level of SMP/E.

You will get practical experience in the SMP/E tasks involved in installing a z/OS product. Emphasis is on interpreting results of SMP/E processing. SMP/E concepts examined in this course include modification control statements, the consolidated software inventory, zone structure, and error analysis. SMP/E commands such as RECEIVE, APPLY, ACCEPT, RESTORE, REPORT, and LIST are discussed.

You will also learn how to perform automated SMP/E delivery of z/OS and product maintenance over the Internet with an automated SMP/E process that downloads and installs IBM preventive and corrective service over the Internet.

Course Objectives

After this course participants should be able to:

  • Describe how SMP/E is used as a tool for system maintenance
  • Interpret modification control statements in a sample SYSMOD
  • Create a consolidated software inventory database to support installation and maintenance requirements
  • Use the SMP/E dialogs to install a product and its related service
  • Manage exception SYSMOD data
  • Describe the use of the primary and secondary data sets required by SMP/E
  • Analyze output from SMP/E processing and resolve commonly encountered problems
  • Describe the use of the REPORT command to determine software dependencies between zones
  • Use the BUILDMCS process to create a function SYSMOD from an installed product and its service
  • Use the new SMP/E functions to install software service automatically over the internet
    • Implement support for communication server FTP client
    • Use the new RECEIVE ORDER command to order and install z/OS maintenance automatically over the Internet

Course Content

 1.      SMP/E overview                                                                                                                         

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                        

·       SYSMOD sources                                                                                                                                             

·       SMP/E processing                                                                                                                                           

·       Installation process                                                                                                                                         

2.      SYSMOD packaging                                                                                                                  

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                       

·       Modification control statements                                                                                                                     

·       Packaging techniques                                                                                                                                    

3.      Tracking element levels                                                                                                           

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

4.      Consolidated software inventory                                                                                                  

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

·       Control information                                                                                                                                                

·       Status information                                                                                                                                                  

·       Content and structure information                                                                                                                      

·       Zone management commands                                                                                                                             

5.      Execution requirements                                                                                                                 

·       Invoking SMP/E                                                                                                                                                       

·       SMP/E data sets                                                                                                                                                       

·       Dynamic allocation                                                                                                                                                 

6.      RECEIVE and REJECT                                                                                                                     

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

·       HOLDDATA                                                                                                                                                              

7.      APPLY processing                                                                                                                           

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

·       Operands                                                                                                                                                                  

·       SYSMOD selection                                                                                                                                                  

·       Applicability checks                                                                                                                                                

·       JCLIN processing                                                                                                                                                    

·       Element selection                                                                                                                                                   

·       Element installation                                                                                                                                               

·       CSI updates                                                                                                                                                             

·       Reports                                                                                                                                                                    

8.      ACCEPT processing                                                                                                                         

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

·       ACCEPT processing                                                                                                                                                

9.      RESTORE                                                                                                                                          

·       Introduction                                                                                                                                                             

10.  BUILDMCS and LINK MODULE                                                                                                     

·       System structure                                                                                                                                                  

·       BUILDMCS command                                                                                                                                         

·       The LINK MODULE command                                                                                                                           

11.  LIST and REPORT commands                                                                                                      

·       LIST processing                                                                                                                                                   

·       REPORT command                                                                                                                                              

·       SMP/E scenarios                                                                                                                                                 

12.  SMP/E and the network                                                                                                               

·       SMP/E electronic delivery                                                                                                                                   

·       SMP/E Internet delivery enhancements                                                                                                         

13.  z/OSMF and the new installation and maintenance strategy (optional)