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Unix Sysadmin 101: What newbies need to know, but nobody tells them.

Solaris Courses

Sun Education offers some of the very best technology training available. However their training is also expensive and they offer beau coup courses. This is meant as a guide for picking and choosing among the Solaris courses that a newbie sysadmin (for a Voyager library) would likely be considering.
Fundamentals of Solaris

Not recommended. Why? This is basic user training: shells, directory structure, using vi, etc. Learn this stuff at Continuing Education and save your training dollars for the Sun Ed sysadmin and network admin courses. [This course is now called Unix Essentials.]

Solaris System Administration I

Absolutely essential. Why? These are the things you really need to know: doing installs, maintaining patches, backup and recovery, the boot process, etc. You'll learn things, important things, that you didn't even know you were supposed to know. Worth every penny. [This course is now called Intermediate System Administration.]

Solaris System Administration II

Not recommended. Why? This covers system/network administration for large-scale enterprises: NFS (Network File System), NIS+ (Network Information Service), etc. Very few systems librarians will administer a network of this complexity. [This course is now called Advanced System Administration.]


Solaris Fundamentals
Solaris Sysadmin I
Solaris Sysadmin II


Solaris TCP/IP Network Admin


TCP/IP Network Administration

Highly recommended. Why? In our client-server, LAN, WAN, Internet environment, you can never learn too much about networking. Sysadmin troubleshooting often turns out to be network troubleshooting. This course will prepare you for those situations. [This course is now called Network Administration.]