SUSE Linux Advanced System Administration
Course
In London
£ 1,695
+ VAT
Description
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Type
Course
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Location
London
This instructor led course is designed to teach the advanced administration, security, networking and performance tasks required on SUSE Linux within the Enterprise.
Facilities
Location
Start date
London
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Clerks Court 18-20 Farringdon Lane Clerkenwell, EC1R 3AU
Start date
On request
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Subjects
- Linux
- IT
- SuSe
Course programme
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- Configuring a Linux installation server
- Creating a PXE boot environment
- Automatic installation
- Exercise
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Basic packets and routing
- Netfilter (iptables)
- Packet filtering (iptables, chains, rule targets, connection tracking)
- Network address translation (NAT)
- Exercise
- The main PAM configuration files (/etc/pam.d directory)
- Configuration file formats
- Controlling user access using the configuration files
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Hotplug system
- Devices and Interfaces.
- The sysfs filesystem and persistent names
- Device initialisation and interface configuration
- Hotplug and Coldplug
- The Udev system
- Exercise
- 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
- 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
SUSE Linux Advanced System Administration
£ 1,695
+ VAT