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       Managing Your Network Using SunNet Manager - SA-340
   
SunFLASH Vol 20 #23					 	August 1990 
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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

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