The following training classes are scheduled at Transarc's offices in Pittsburgh, PA during November and December 1993: AFS System Administration, three day class Two sessions: November 16-18, 1993 & December 7-9, 1993 Cost: $1,600, $1,400 for educational sites Distributed File System Administration with DCE/DFS, one day tutorial One session: December 6, 1993 Cost: $295 Course descriptions for both of these classes are included below. To register for any of these classes, please complete a training registration form and return it to Transarc. This form is available electronically in /afs/transarc.com/public/afsmkt/training-regform.ps, or a copy may be requested by contacting Donna Oravitz at (412) 338-6957, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Elaine Wolfe Transarc Corporation The Gulf Tower, 707 Grant St. Pittsburgh, PA 15219 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (412) 338-4448 (412) 338-4404 FAX *********************************************************************** AFS System Administration Target Audience: UNIX professionals involved in configuring or administering an AFS-based distributed computing environment. Prerequisites: Working knowledge of administering a UNIX environment, along with user-level knowledge of AFS. Abstract: The AFS System Administrator Training course will cover those topics key to administering an AFS environment. The course starts by detailing some of the factors that determine how an initial AFS site should be configured, along with machine requirements for AFS servers and clients. Following this is an overview of basic AFS commands. The course then progresses to detailed instructions on performing the primary administrative tasks in an AFS environment: managing client machines, managing file servers, starting and controlling file server processes, performing volume operations, performing system administration tasks (including the AFS Backup System, the Scout server monitoring tool, the uss utility for creating user accounts and the Package utility for updating client machines). The course also provides information on referencing information in the AFS set of manuals, mechanisms for working with AFS customer support and installation procedures for AFS. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Distributed File System Administration with DCE/DFS Target Audience: UNIX professionals who are interested in the management and administrative aspects of the DCE Distributed File Service. Prerequisites: Prior exposure to distributed computing concepts would be helpful but is not strictly necessary. Familiarity with at least the basics of UNIX system administration is assumed. Abstract: DCE DFS is the Distributed File Service component of the OSF's Distributed Computing Environment. It provides a uniform global namespace for the files which it holds, allows files and system databases to be replicated for load balancing and high availability, and includes a fast-restarting log-based physical file system for use on server machines. Because of the uniform namespace, replication techniques, aggressive caching on DFS client machines, and the capabilities of the DCE Security Service, DFS provides a scalable, secure distributed file system that presents users with the familiar semantics of a UNIX filesystem. This tutorial will examine DFS from a system administrator's perspective and, to a lesser extent, from a user's perspective. Since DFS is a `top-level' component of the DCE, it relies on several other DCE components to provide lower-level services. Relevant interactions between DFS and these other DCE modules will be discussed throughout the tutorial. The tutorial begins with a general discussion of distributed computing, and an overview of the DCE. Next, the DCE architecture is discussed. The remainder of the tutorial is devoted to descriptions of the administrative features of DFS, including privileged users and groups, administrative domains, access control lists, configuration and operation of DFS machines, fileset manipulation and replication, and the backup system.
