Linux System Administration
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In London-City
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London-city
This instructor led Linux System Administration (LPI) training course is designed to teach the key administration, security, networking and performance tasks required on a Linux Enterprise system. Targeted to closely follow the official LPI curriculum (generic Linux), this course together with the Linux Introduction and the Linux Shell Programming course will enable the delegate to work towards achieving the LPIC-1 qualification. Who will the Course Benefit? The Linux System Administration (LPI) training course is suitable for novice Linux System Administrators who need to acquire administration knowledge of the key administrative, networking, performance and security tasks required on Linux within the Enterprise. The typical delegate will be working in an environment using several different Linux distributions and therefore knowledge of skills common to all the different Linux distributions is required. For the purpose of practical exercises, SUSE Linux will be used. Note: Should the delegate only require knowledge of Red Hat Linux then they should instead consider attending our range of Red Hat Linux Administration courses. Course Objectives On completion of this course the delegate will have technical knowledge of what is required to administer Linux within the Enterprise. They will have gained practical experience of configuring administrative, networking and security aspects of a Linux Enterprise system. The delegate will possess the essential knowledge required to work towards achieving the LPIC-1 qualification. Learning Objectives Skills Gained The delegate will have knowledge in all, and practise in some, of the following: Performing administrative tasks with supplied tools such as YaST.Installing and updating Linux.Listing device information.Managing user and group account information.Managing the Linux file systems.Listing, creating and removing swap space.Managing software packages.System startup/shutdown management.Managing system...
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Pre-Requisite CoursesLinux Introduction
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Subjects
- Network Training
- Systems
- SuSe
- Red Hat
- Network
- Linux
- Networking
Course programme
Course Contents - DAY 1Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- Information required
- Installation using virtual consoles
- Installation methods (local CD and networked)
- Installing via a remote system using VNC
- Using boot time options
- Partitioning and software selection
- Installation procedures
- Exercise
- Device files
- Device file naming conventions
- Examining hardware under the /proc directory
- Using the hwinfo command
- Investigating bus/devices: - lspci, lsdev, lsusb commands etc.
- Detecting new/existing devices
- Monitoring the system with siga
- Exercise
- Files used in creating users and groups
- Adding, modifying and deleting users and groups
- Password administration
- The shells and the user environment - login files
- ulimit command
- setuid, setgid and sticky bit permissions
- The sudo command
- Exercise
- The Native Linux filesystems ext2, ext3, ext4 and resierfs
- Filesystem journals
- Disk partitioning: fdisk and parted
- Filesystem administration and Maintenance (mkfs, mount, umount and fsck)
- Creating ISO images
- Managing disk quotas
- Exercise
- Swap overview
- Creating and monitoring swap space (swapon, swapoff and mkswap)
- Exercise
- The Redhat Package Management (RPM) system
- The SUSE zypper package manager
- Installing, updating and removing software
- Querying and verifying packages
- Dependency problems and resolution
- System updating - manual and automatic
- Exercise
- System startup procedure
- The boot process and run-levels (init and /etc/inittab)
- Managing services (chkconfig and rc commands)
- Modifying system settings in /etc/sysconfig
- Shutdown commands
- Exercise
- The CUPS printing System - local and remote printing
- Administering CUPS using the web browser interface
- Administering CUPS using other graphical tools
- Print queue management
- Print commands
- Exercise
- Monitoring system processes (strace, top, pstree and ksysguard)
- Scheduling jobs using 'at' and 'crontab'
- Controlling access to the 'at' and 'crontab' utilities
- Exercise
- The Secure shell: OpenSSH
- Encryption and Authentication Under SSH
- SSH and Port Tunnelling
- GPG
- GPG Tools
- Managing keys and encryption
- Managing digital signatures
- Exercise
- Basic network configuration (i.p. addresses, classes, masks, MAC address)
- IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
- Network protocols
- Service port numbers
- Configuration files
- Managing network devices (ifup, ifdown, ifstatus)
- Configuring network information (hostnames, i.p addressing, domains)
- Changing media speed (mii-tool, ethtool)
- Managing routing
- Exercise
- The extended internet daemon (xinetd)
- Handling network service requests with xinetd
- Enable and configuring access to a service
- Configuring TCP/IP wrappers for security
- Configuring the network time protocol daemon for a client
- Exercise
- 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
- Troubleshooting process - check list
- Manual booting into single user mode
- Automatic booting into single user mode (fsck checking)
- Rescue environment utilities and operation
- Common boot problems and their resolution
- Exercise
- syslog Configuration
- The /etc/syslog.conf Configuration File
- Editing the syslog.conf File
- Testing Using logger
- Managing Logs with logrotate
- Exercise
APPENDIX A - ELECTRONIC MAIL
- Configuring Postfix Mail
APPENDIX B - CUSTOMISING AND USING X WINDOWS
- Configuring the X Windows GUI interface and desktops
APPENDIX C - ACCESSIBILITY
- Configuring the desktop for disabled users
APPENDIX D - LOCALISATION
- Geographical considerations and character sets
APPENDIX E - YUM AND APT
- Additional software package management tools
APPENDIX F - ADDITIONAL COMMANDS
- Miscellaneous Shell commands
Linux System Administration