Sun Desktop Systems Maintenance (SM-210)

Description:

The Sun Desktop Systems Maintenance course provides students with information about how to install, configure, diagnose, and verify proper operation of desktop workstations based on SPARC technology. Sun desktop systems covered in this course include Sun Blade 1000, Sun Blade 100, Ultra 80, Ultra 60, Ultra 30, Ultra 10, Ultra 5, and Ultra 2 workstations. Students can also learn how to install and configure associated desktop peripherals, including external disk and tape devices. Real problems are introduced into the desktop systems for you to troubleshoot using all available diagnostic tools.

Who Can Benefit
Students who can benefit from this course are field engineers, system support engineers, and system administrators who support Sun SPARC technology-based desktop systems and the associated peripherals.

Prerequisites
To succeed fully in this course, students should be able to:

• Use common hand tools
• Use diagnostic procedures and programs to troubleshoot personal computers to the field-replaceable unit (FRU)
• Demonstrate successful completion of SM-101: Solaris Essentials for System Maintainers

Skills Gained
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:

• Identify the features of each desktop system
• Perform FRU replacement procedures for each desktop system
• Describe the functional characteristics of OpenBoot(TM) programmable read-only memory (PROM) architecture
• Describe each desktop systems' power-on and boot sequence with a block diagram
• Identify and cable peripheral devices
• Analyze and repair disk failures
• Troubleshoot basic boot failures
• Activate and configure all available diagnostic tools
• Interpret the results of listed diagnostic tool output
• Identify, isolate, and describe correct repair for a given system failure to the FRU level