Enterprise Linux Systems

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This is a five day, in-depth course that explores installation, configuration and maintenance of Linux systems. The course focuses on issues universal to every workstation and server. This is a five day, in-depth course that explores installation, configuration and maintenance of Linux systems. The course focuses on issues universal to every workstation and server.

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About this course

Students should already be comfortable working in a Linux or UNIX environment.

An understanding of network concepts, and the TCP/IP protocol suite is helpful.

This course material is designed to provide extensive hands-on experience. Topics include: installation and configuration; the boot process; user and group administration; filesystem administration, including quotas, FACLs, RAID and LVM, task automation, client networking, SELinux, software management, log files and troubleshooting.

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Subjects

  • Monitoring
  • Linux
  • Server
  • Network
  • Installation
  • SuSe
  • Systems
  • IP
  • Install
  • Network Training

Course programme


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1. Linux Hardware Discovery, Interaction, & Control

Hardware Discovery Tools

Configuring New Hardware with hwinfo Hardware and System Clock Console

Virtual Terminals Serial Ports

SCSI Devices USB Devices

USB Configuration

Common UNIX Printing System Defining a Printer

Managing Optical Media Tape Libraries

Managing Linux Device Files Kernel Hardware Info – /sys/ /sys/ Structure udev

Kernel Modules

Configuring Kernel Components and

Modules

Handling Module Dependencies Configuring the Kernel via /proc/

2. Boot Process and SYSV INIT

Booting Linux on PCs GRUB Configuration Boot Parameters Initial ramdisk

System Init Styles Linux Runlevels /etc/inittab

/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit

SUSE /etc/init.d/boot

Runlevel Implementation System Configuration Files

RHEL6 Configuration Utilities SLES11 Configuration Utilities Typical SysV Init Script The /etc/rc.local File

The /etc/init.d/*.local Files Managing Daemons

Controlling Service Startup Shutdown and Reboot

3. Software Maintenance

Managing Software RPM Features

RPM Architecture RPM Package Files Working with RPMs

Querying and Verifying with rpm Updating the Kernel RPM Dealing with RPM & YUM

Digest Changes

YUM Plugins

YUM Repositories

Compiling/Installing from

Source

/sbin/init

Manually Installed Shared Libraries Installing Source RPM Packages 4. FileSystem Administraton

Partitioning Disks with fdisk Partitioning Disks with parted Filesystem Creation Mounting Filesystems Filesystem Maintenance Persistent Block Devices Resizing Filesystems Swap

Filesystem Structures

Determining Disk Usage With df and du Configuring Disk Quotas Setting Quotas

Viewing and Monitoring Quotas Filesystem Attributes Backup Software

5. LVM & RAID

Logical Volume Management Implementing LVM

Creating Logical Volumes Manipulating VGs & LVs Advanced LVM Concepts system-config-lvm

SLES Graphical Disk Tool RAID Concepts

Array Creation with mdadm Software RAID Monitoring

Software RAID Control and Display

6. Remote Storage Administration

Remote Storage Overview Remote Filesystem Protocols Remote Block Device Protocols File Sharing via NFS NFSv4

NFS Clients

NFS Server Configuration Implementing NFSv4 AutoFS

AutoFS Configuration

Accessing Windows/Samba Shares from

Linux

SAN Multipathing

Multipath Configuration

Multipathing Best Practices

iSCSI Architecture Open-iSCSI Initiator

Implementation

iSCSI Initiator Discovery iSCSI Initiator Node

Administration

Mounting iSCSI Targets at Boot

iSCSI Multipathing

Considerations

7. User/Group Administration

User and Group Concepts User Administration Modifying Accounts Group Administration Password Aging

Default User Files Controlling Logins

Manual DS Client Configuration system-config-authentication SLES Graphical DS Client

Configuration

System Security Services

Daemon (SSSD)

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8. Pluggable Authentication

Modules (PAM) PAM Overview

PAM Module Types

PAM Order of Processing PAM Control Statements PAM Modules pam_unix

pam_nologin.so pam_limits.so pam_wheel.so pam_xauth.so

9. Security Administration

Security Concepts

Tightening Default Security SuSE Security Checker Security Advisories

File Access Control Lists Manipulating FACLs Viewing FACLs

Backing Up FACLs

File Creation Permissions with

umask

User Private Group Scheme Alternatives to UPG AppArmor

SELinux Security Framework SELinux Modes

SELinux Commands

Choosing an SELinux Policy SELinux Booleans Permissive Domains SELinux Policy Tools

Basic Firewall Activation 10. Basic Networking

IPv4 Fundamentals

TCP/UDP Fundamentals Linux Network Interfaces Ethernet Hardware Tools

Network Configuration with ip

Command

Configuring Routing Tables

IP to MAC Address Mapping with ARP Starting and Stopping Interfaces NetworkManager DNS Clients

DHCP Clients

system-config-network{tui,cmd} SUSE YaST Network Configuration

Tool

Network Diagnostics

Information from netstat and ss Managing Network-Wide Time Continual Time Sync with NTP Configuring NTP Clients Useful NTP Commands 11. Advanced Networking

Multiple IP Addresses

Configuring a DHCP server Enabling IPv6

Interface Bonding Interface Bridging 802.1q VLANS

Tuning Kernel Network Settings 12. Log File Administration

System Logging Syslog-ng Rsyslog

Log Management

Log Anomaly Detector

13. Monitoring & Troubleshooting

System Status – Memory System Status – I/O System Status – CPU

Performance Trending with sar Troubleshooting Basics: The

Process

Troubleshooting Basics: The

Tools

strace and ltrace

Common Problems

Troubleshooting Incorrect File

Permissions

Inability to Boot

Typos in Configuration Files Corrupt Filesystems

RHEL6 Rescue Environment SUSE Rescue Environment

Appendix A: Pre-Installation

Considerations

Pre-Installation Considerations Hardware Compatibility Multi-OS Booting

Partition Considerations Filesystem Planning Selecting a Filesystem

Appendix B: Installing RHEL6

Anaconda: An Overview

Anaconda: Booting the System Anaconda: Common Boot

Options

Anaconda: Loading Anaconda

and Packages

Anaconda: Storage Options Anaconda: Troubleshooting FirstBoot Kickstart

A Typical Install

Appendix C: Installing SLES11 YaST Install Program Interface Network Installation

SLP for SUSE Linux Installation Installation Choices

/etc/rsyslog.conf

Kernel Crash Dump Configuration Creating AutoYaST2 Files Using AutoYaST2 files

linuxrc Automation

Installation Diagnostics After The First Reboot A Typical Install

Appendix D: ISCSI Target Configuration

iSCSI Target Implementations iSCSI Target Configuration (tgt)

iSCSI Target LUN Configuration (tgt) iSCSI Target Auth Configuration (tgt) iSCSI Persistent Configuration (tgt)

ules Delegating Administration

Enterprise Linux Systems

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