SUSE Linux Advanced System Administration
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In London-City
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This instructor led SUSE Linux Advanced System Administration training course is designed to teach the advanced 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 System Administration course will enable the delegate to work towards achieving the LPIC-2 qualification. Skills GainedThe delegate will have knowledge in all, and practise in some, of the following:Perform administrative tasks with supplied tools such as YASTAdvanced network configurationNetwork troubleshootingConfiguring network services LDAP, DNS and, DHCPSharing Window and Linux resources with SAMBASharing Linux network resources with NFSConfiguring FTP and NFSConfiguring network services APACHE and SQUIDManaging the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)Managing software RAIDCentralised storage with iSCSIMonitoring disk status and reliability with smartdFirewall configurationPluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)Kernel installation and compilationCompiling software from sourceSystem performance monitoringHardware configuration with hotplug and udev Who will the Course Benefit?The SUSE Linux Advanced System Administration training course is suitable for Linux System Administrators who need to acquire advanced administration knowledge of the key administrative, networking 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. Learning Objectives On completion of this course the delegate will have in-depth technical knowledge of...
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Experience of administering SUSE Linux in an Enterprise environment to the level covered in the SUSE Linux System Administration course.
Knowledge of Linux Shell Programming to the level covered on the Linux Shell Programming course would also be beneficial.
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Subjects
- Network Training
- IP
- SuSe
- Red Hat
- DNS
- Network
- Apache
- Server
- Linux
- Testing
- Networking
- Access
Course programme
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- Configuring the network card (ip link, ip addr)
- Network scripts
- Configuring routing (ip route)
- Network troubleshooting and related tools (ethereal, tcpdump, ping, traceroute, netstat, arp, nmap, nc)
- 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
- Configuring secure APACHE (https)
- SQUID proxy server
- Configuring client browsers
- Starting SQUID
- The SQUID configuration file (squid.conf)
- SQUID security settings
- NGINX Proxy and Reverse Proxy
- Exercise
- The SAMBA configuration file (smb.conf)
- Testing the SAMBA configuration file (testparm)
- Configuring SAMBA users
- Starting SAMBA
- Testing SAMBA (smbclient, smbstatus)
- 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
- Configuring DHCP
- The dhcpd.conf configuration file
- DNS entries
- Client address entries
- Address leases
- Exercise
- Configuring FTP
- The vsftpd.conf configuration file
- Anonymous access
- Restricting access to the user's login directory
- FTP logfile
- Exercise
- NFS operation and daemons (portmapper etc.)
- Setting up an NFS server (/etc/exports and exportfs)
- Setting up an NFS client (mount)
- Mounting NFS filesystems at boot (/etc/fstab)
- Using the automounter to access NFS mounts on demand
- Exercise
- LVM Overview
- Configuring LVM (pvcreate, vgcreate, vgextend, lvcreate etc.)
- Displaying information about the LVM environment (pvdisplay, pvs, vgdisplay, vgs, lvdisplay, lvs)
- Resizing Logical Volumes (lvextend, resize2fs, resize_reiserfs)
- Logical Volume Snapshots (lvcreate, lvdisplay)
- Exercise
- RAID overview
- Raw devices and partitions
- Creating a RAID device (fdisk, mdadm)
- Managing a RAID device (mdadm, /proc/mdstat)
- Creating and mount a file system on a RAID device
- Hot swapping failed drives
- Exercise
- Definition and benefits of iSCSI
- Server target
- Client initiator
- Configuring the target and initiator with the yast tool
- Configuring the target and initiator with files and commands
- Main features of monitoring disk devices with smartd
- Configuring smartd
- /etc/sysconfig/smartmontools
- /etc/smartd.conf
- Managing smartd with smartctl
- 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
- 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
- System performance monitoring
- Collecting system performance information (sar)
- Measuring virtual memory (vmstat)
- Measuring I/O performance (iostat)
- Performance Guidelines
- 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
APPENDIX A - CONFIGURING APACHE FOR PHP AND TOMCAT
- Configuring Apache Web Server to support PHP and Tomcat
APPENDIX B - BASIC OPENVPN
- Accessing a private network with OpenVPN
APPENDIX C - RAIDTOOLS
- Old style raidtools package
APPENDIX D - BTRFS
- A basic description of the btrfs file system
APPENDIX E - DRACUT
- Managing the Linux boot process with dracut
APPENDIX F - UEFI
- A basic description of the UEFI firmware interface
APPENDIX G - ELECTRONIC MAIL AND POSTFIX
- Basic mail server configuration with postfix
SUSE Linux Advanced System Administration