[rescue] Sun training

[Loomis, Rip]

(If you don't believe in Sun's courses, skip the
rest of this message.)

Instructor-led official Sun training in your
area:
  http://suned.sun.com/US/search/centers/HAVI.html

You want SA-238/288/389, which will take you
most of the way from where you are now to the
mythical "Certified Solaris Network Administrator"
level:
  http://suned.sun.com/US/certification/solaris/solaris_certpath.html

You also want to take out a second mortgage to
pay for the training, unless you have an
enlightened employer.

Once you're certified, you will *still* be woefully
underqualified to fix every dumb mistake or
unusual customization made by previous sysadmins,
though...never underestimate the kludges/kluges
that smart people can put in place when they focus on
the tactical and forget the strategic.  I spent
part of yesterday morning trying to decipher a
mystical combination of 5 Solaris boxes, Oracle,
perl scripts, rsh,rdist,ssh,and rsync (plus purpose-
written C code which is now lost with only compiled
binaries remaining) all being used to administer
several major DNS zones.  It would be so painful to
update it that the only alternative is really to
scrap it and start over.

The Sun classes are good up to a point, but there's
no substitute for getting down and dirty with a
live dysfunctional system.  YMMV.

--
Rip Loomis
Senior Systems Security Engineer
SAIC Center for Information Security Technology 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A. Turner [mailto:mturner at whro.org]
> Sent: Friday, 24 August, 2001 13:12
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [rescue] Sun training
> 
> 
> 
> 	All,
> 
> 	I wanted to get this groups opinion of were I should try and get
> formal training in supporting Sun operating systems. The 
> problem that I have
> run into is that I have been tinkerring with my solaris boxs, and have
> inadvertantly developed a reputation for knowing solaris. 
> This only means
> that I know more than the people around me. If this was just 
> in my shop here
> fine, but we also provide support for thirteen local school 
> districts. 
> 	I find myself more and more on the phone trying to 
> support a sun box
> that I have never seen and has been administered for 5 years 
> by various
> people who did or did not have a clue. This is causing me to 
> find myself in
> a position were my little knowledge I have gained tinkerring 
> is getting
> swamped.
> 	I would like to find a formal enviroment that can take 
> from begining
> to end on supporting and configurring a sun box and hardware. 
> The class
> needs to be either online or based in the hampton roads area 
> of virginia.
> Does anyone have any advice on where I can find this training? If it
> resulted in a sun certification at the end great, but I want 
> this more for
> my own knowledge.
> 
> Michael A. Turner
> Systems Engineer
> WHRO
> michael.turner at whro.org
> http://www.whro.org
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