Sun – Week Eight

Now this week started off brilliantly, I mean who can argue with your boss telling you ‘it’s OK, take Monday off, and we’ll pay you!’ Of course, it was bank holiday Monday

Sun – Week Seven

More training this week.

We started the week looking at how Solaris interfaces with the network, then went on to look at some networking basics related to Solaris.

On Tuesday we looked at what Swap was and why and how we should use it and also the pros and cons of using it. We looked at managing crash and core dump files too. We spent the afternoon looking at NFS and AutoFS, these go hand in hand to make an NFS server and allows users to automatically mount filesystems on their client machines.

Sun – Week six

So, as you know from my other posts, I have been off to London and Aberystwyth this past week, so was only in work for Friday.

We had a busy day, I picked up a number of tickets, one was to set up three customer machines, which took longer than anticipated.  Robin had set up an area for customer machine which is great, I set up the three machines and hooked them up.  However, after looking at them, two out of the three console lines didn’t work.  After an hours trouble shooting, I still couldn’t get the last one to work, so I handed them over to the engineer looking after them and said to him that if anything needed doing, I was there.

Sun – Week Five

So I have been working at sun for over a month now, and I’m still having a great time. I’ve decided I need to get “Networking for Dummies” to learn more about networking.

I’ve been really bad, I’m writing this in retrospect, and went to London the weekend after this week of work, so can’t directly remember what I got up to…

I remember I was doing some swapping of disks out of a disk array, and I almost brought the whole network down   Well, possibly just part of it.  I was to add some names to the NIS+ thingy, and thought I was doing it correctly, but actually assigned the machine name to the same IP as the default switch, so James quickly fixed this…At this point, I knew I needed to learn more about networking…

Sun -Week Four

Monday
When I got into the office today, James had stolen Michael’s nice big monitor, and swapped it for a small 17″one. So, after claiming Michael’s desk, I set about looking for two CRT monitors that worked, both are about 20″, but do consume a lot of desk room. I had to set up two SunRay clients too, one to be a master and control one screen as well as the keyboard and mouse, and another to be the slave, controlling the second screen. I’ll try and get a picture tomorrow.