Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI)

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

This instructor led course is designed to teach the advanced administration, including network, security and performance of a Linux Enterprise system.

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London
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Clerks Court 18-20 Farringdon Lane Clerkenwell, EC1R 3AU

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Linux

Course programme

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Network Installation of Linux

  • Configuring a Linux installation server
  • Creating a PXE boot environment
  • Automatic installation
  • Exercise

Advanced Network Configuration and Troubleshooting

  • Configuring the network card (ip link, ip addr)
  • Configuring routing (ip route)
  • Serial communication
  • Network troubleshooting and related tools (ethereal, tcpdump, ping, traceroute, netstat, arp, nmap)
  • Exercise

LDAP

  • Structure of an LDAP Tree
  • Configuring the LDAP server (slapd.conf)
  • Testing the LDAP server (ldapsearch)
  • Adding information into LDAP (lpdapadd)
  • Configuring the LDAP Clients (nsswitch.conf, ldap.conf)
  • Exercise

APACHE and SQUID

  • APACHE main configuration files
  • APACHE server configuration (main Section entries)
  • Starting APACHE
  • APACHE access configuration
  • SQUID proxy server
  • Configuring client browsers
  • Starting SQUID
  • The SQUID configuration file (squid.conf)
  • SQUID security settings
  • Exercise

SAMBA

  • The SAMBA configuration file (smb.conf)
  • Testing the SAMBA configuration file (testparm)
  • Configuring SAMBA users
  • Starting SAMBA
  • Testing SAMBA (smbclient)
  • Managing Windows filesystems (smbmount, nmblookup)
  • Accessing Windows shares
  • Exercise

The Domain Name Server

  • DNS operation
  • Types of DNS Servers
  • Domain Name Space
  • Setting up a DNS server
  • Server configuration files (named.conf and databases)
  • DNS resource record formats
  • Starting and managing the DNS Server (rcnamed, rndc)
  • Testing the DNS Server (host, dig, nslookup)
  • DNS Client set up (resolv.conf)
  • Exercise

Network Intergration Service (NIS)

  • Server and client interaction (ypbind, ypserv)
  • NIS Maps
  • Name service configuration file (nsswitch.conf)
  • Configuring the Master server
  • Configuring the NIS clients
  • Changing passwords
  • Home directories in the NIS environment (automounter)
  • Exercise

Securing Linux

  • System security checklist
  • User level security
  • Limiting access to terminals
  • Limiting access to files via ACLs (setfacl, getfacl)
  • Limiting access to files by extended permissions and attributes (lsattr, chattr)
  • System wide security settings and file access (chkstat)
  • Exercise

Firewall Configuration

  • Basic packets and routing
  • Netfilter (iptables)
  • Packet filtering (iptables, chains, rule targets, connection tracking)
  • Network address translation (NAT)
  • Exercise

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)

  • The main PAM configuration files (/etc/pam.d directory)
  • Configuration file formats
  • Controlling user access using the configuration files
  • Exercise

Bachup and Restore

  • Tape devices
  • Controlling tapes (mt)
  • Backing and restoring with the tar command
  • Backing and restoring with the cpio command
  • Using dump and restore commands to backup and restore file systems
  • Backing up raw data with dd
  • File compression and archiving (tar, gzip, bzip2)
  • Mirroring data between systems with rsync
  • Backing up and restoring with Yast
  • Exercise

Kernel Compliation and Installation

  • Kernel building
  • Monolithic and Modular kernel design
  • Listing modules (lsmod, modinfo)
  • Modifying the kernel configuration
  • Binary kernel packages
  • Installing the kernel sources
  • Configuring and building a kernel
  • Editing the GRUB/LILO configuration file
  • Kernel tuning (/proc sysctl.conf, sysctl)
  • Exercise

Compiling Software from Source

  • Installing programs from source (tar, tarball)
  • Compiling Open Source Software (configure, make)
  • Installing the compiled software (make install)
  • Managing shared libraries (ldd)
  • Compiling from SRC (source) RPM packages (rpmbuild, rpm)
  • Exercise

System Monitoring and Performance Management

  • Syslog configuration (syslog.conf)
  • Testing syslog with logger
  • Managing logs with logrotate (logrotate.d directory)
  • System performance monitoring
  • Collecting system performance information (sar)
  • Measuring virtual memory (vmstat)
  • Measuring I/O performance (iostat)
  • Other tuning tools (top, free, ksysguard, gkrellm, xosview)
  • System Accounting - collecting process and user information (rcacct, ac, lastcomm, sa)
  • Exercise

Hardware Configuration

  • The Hotplug system
  • Devices and Interfaces.
  • The sysfs filesystem and persistent names
  • Device initialisation and interface configuration
  • Hotplug and Coldplug
  • The Udev system
  • Exercise

XEN

  • Basic definition
  • XEN components
  • The Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)
  • Virtualization Modes (Fully Virtual, Paravirtual)
  • System requirements
  • Installing XEN
  • Creating a Virtual Machine
  • Managing the VM environment (Yast and xm)
  • Exercise

Shell Scripting Development

  • Executing scripts
  • Entering data into scripts (read)
  • Command line arguments and positional variables
  • Decision constructs (if, then, else, elif, fi)
  • The case statement
  • Looping constructs (while, until, for, do, done, continue, break)
  • Arrays
  • Exercise

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