Sun Education Course Announcement

[Frank Saeb - SW Education Mgr]

Sun Educational Services is pleased to announce the offering of the new
"Managing Your Network Using SunNet Manager - SA-340" course!

Description:  

This course is designed for experienced system and network administrators
with at least six month's exposure to SunOS who want to use SunNet Manager
to monitor their existing distributed work groups.  SunNet Manager is a
network management software platform product that provides end-user
monitoring and control functions as well as development tools.   This
course focuses on how to use SunNet Manager's administrative tools to
gather data such as Ethernet interface statistics, host memory
utilization, host performance and routing table statistics from nodes on
existing networks.

The student practices using the agents that come bundled with the SunNet
Manager product and becomes familiar with their respective outputs in
practical lab experiences on a variety of Sun equipment.  It is assumed
that each student has sufficient experience to interpret the data obtained
by SunNet Manager.

NOTE:  It is outside the scope of this course to discuss network design or the
       writing of additional custom agents.

Prerequisites:

Before attending this course, students should be able to:

* Execute basic SunOS user commands
* Execute SunOS administrator commands and interpret the output
* Navigate the SunOS filesystem
* Describe the characteristics of a process and a daemon
* Describe the SunOS booting sequence and the administrator files involved
* Write and debug simple shell programs 
* Use the SunView user interface described in SunView 1 Beginner's Guide
  (Sun part number 800-1706)
* Edit text files using one of the editors, vi or TextEditor 
* Install SunOS and other unbundled software packages 
* Install and remove hardware (workstations, printers, bridges, 
  multiplexors, routers, Ethernet taps, etc.) to/from a local network.

Objectives:

Upon completing this course, students should be able to:

* Install the SunNet Manager software successfully and verify the installation
* Perform a successful installation of agent binaries
* Start the SunNet Manager Console
* Use the mouse and function button accelerators to open windows, expose
  menus,   and manipulate windows and glyphs in SunNet Manager's OPEN LOOK
  graphical user interface
* Describe the Home view
* Define proxy system and proxy agent
* Explain what a proxy machine is and what it does
* Create components, views, and regular connections (Ethernet, link, RS232)
* Search a SunNet Manager database for one or more instances of a specific
  element
* Demonstrate the differences between these functions:  copy/paste, cut/paste,
  and delete
* Connect two elements with a simple connection
* Change the state of a glyph
* View and/or modify the properties of an element
* Close one or all displayed pop-up windows
* Name the four methods of monitoring agent machines
* Describe the characteristics of a Quick Dump, a Data Report, and an 
  Event Report
* Generate a Quick Dump
* Open the Data Report window and the Event Report window
* Describe the function of each field and button in the Data Report window
  and the Event Report window
* Fill in or toggle all of the appropriate information in the data report
  window and the Event Report window
* Launch a Data Report and Event Report request
* rlogin to a machine from the SunNet Manager Console
* Open a perfmeter window for a machine from the SunNet Manager Console
* Open the Data Log, Event Log, Strip Chart, and Bar Graph windows
* Page through the Data Log or the Event Log 
* Describe the characteristics of a structure schema file and an instance file
* State the location of the structure schema and instance files and/or how to
  determine their location
* Identify the key words in both a structure schema and instance file
* Describe the format of a structure schema file and an instance file and 
  specify any syntax requirements
* Add entries to and delete entries from the structure schema and instance
  files using a text editor and load them into SunNet Manager without causing
  any errors.

Duration:

Three days

Dates:        

Milpitas, Calif.
Oct 9th - 11th
Nov 6th - 8th
Dec 4th - 6th

Tuition:

$900