SUSE Linux System Administration
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In London-City
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London-city
This instructor led SUSE Linux System Administration training course is designed to teach the key administration, security, networking and performance tasks required on a SUSE Linux Enterprise system. Skills GainedThe delegate will have knowledge in all, and practise in some, of the following:Performing administrative tasks with supplied tools such as YaSTInstalling and updating SUSE LinuxListing device informationManaging user and group account informationManaging the Linux file systemsListing, creating and removing swap spaceManaging software packagesSystem startup/shutdown managementManaging system servicesConfiguring local and remote printersProcess monitoring and job schedulingManage system security with encryptionConnecting the server to the networkManaging basic network services (ftp, telnet, ssh etc)Performing local and remote backupsTroubleshooting and responding to boot problemsManage system logging Who will the Course Benefit?This SUSE Linux System Administration training course is suitable for novice Linux System Administrators, Programmers and other technical IT staff who need to acquire administration knowledge of the key administrative, networking, performance and security tasks required on SUSE Linux within the Enterprise. Learning Objectives On completion of this course the delegate will have technical knowledge of what is required to administer SUSE Linux within the Enterprise.
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This SUSE Linux System Administration course assumes good knowledge of the SUSE Linux operating system in an Enterprise environment to the level covered on the Linux Introduction 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
- SuSe
- Network
- Linux
- Networking
- Monitoring
Course programme
Course 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
- User monitoring and communication
- The sudo command
- Exercise
- The Native Linux filesystems ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, btrfs 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, systemd, systemctl)
- 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 gnome monitor)
- Managing processes (pgrep, pkill)
- Scheduling jobs using 'at' and 'crontab'
- Controlling access to the 'at' and 'crontab' utilities
- anacron
- 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)
- Managing the network with wicked
- 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
- rsyslog Configuration
- The /etc/rsyslog.conf Configuration File
- Editing the rsyslog.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
SUSE Linux System Administration