SuSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) for Solaris Administrators

Audience

This course is for Solaris Unix Administrators and technical personnel who are transferring their skills or being made responsible for a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server environment.

Prerequisites

It is a prerequisite that delegates have at least a one year experience of administering a Solaris or Unix system. The course starts at a very high level and concentrates on the differences between administering a Solaris/Unix system and administering a SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.

Duration

4 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

SUSE Linux is the possibly one of the oldest commercial Linux distributions available and with its recent takeover by Novell, is finding its way into business, education and government. Due to its outstanding reliability and performance, SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is being used extensively for file, database and web server applications. The SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for Solaris Administrators course concentrates on the differences between SUSE Enterprise Linux Server and the Solaris operating system. On top of their current Solaris/Unix experience, delegates will gain a thorough understanding of the SUSE Linux Enterprise Server environment.

Course Content

Introduction to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Planning & installing SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Configuring network installation
Partitions, file-systems and files
Booting the system & the GRUB boot loader
Configuration and administration with YaST
Enable remote YaST administration
Software & package administration
Basic network configuration
System recovery and repair
Using Xen virtualisation
Configuring the Apache web server
Configuring the Samba Windows server