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Linux System Administration
Essentials
This three day course provides the
opportunity to install the Linux operating system on PC systems, and to
learn the skills necessary to successfully configure non-network system
services, and to manage the system on a day-to-day basis. It will cover
the installation of the Redhat and CentOS Linux distributions, and
allow
the attendee to assess the content and extent of Linux's administration
capabilities..Network Administration issues are covered on the Linux System Administration (Part 2)
course.
Our Linux courses are suitable training for Linux LPI or RedHat Certification
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OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
To be able to build the Linux Redhat system
on both SPARC and Intel platforms, and successfully carry out
day-to-day
administration duties such as User management, File System maintenance,
backups, adding disks, etc.
*see note at bottom for special savings!
for pricing for a course run especially for your organisation, please
use our worksheet **Also available on your site for groups of four to
ten.
COURSE DATES:
June 2008
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INTENSITY: About 40% of the course is
practicals, and 60% lectures
RESOURCE: Each student will have
exclusive use of a fully equipped Intel PC for the duration of the
course. Each student will be provided with a full set of training
notes,
and quick reference cards to assist with file editing and Linux
commands. A full reference for Linux resources will also be
provided.Printer(s) are provided on this course so that students can
learn how to use them, and also take away printed copies of their work.
Tape drives are provided for each student
for use during backup and restore exercises.
PREREQUISITES: Experience of Linux,
Solaris or UNIX similar to the level described in the Introduction to Linux course or Linux Utilities and Shell Programming
course.
FOLLOW UPS: If you will be networking
your Linux systems, then our Linux
System Administration (Part 2) course will be the ideal follow up.
We
also offer the Linux Advanced
Systems Administration and a comprehensive security course Linux Utilities and Shell Programming
First Alternative also offers an extensive range of Solaris courses. If
you are responsible for looking after day-to day administration, then
we
can offer a very comprehensive range of Systems Administration courses,
right up to Advanced levels. Sheets describing each of our courses, and
current schedules, are available on request.
To complement your Linux knowledge, you may
wish to learn skills for data manipulation, statistical analysis,
web-site interaction, and more.
A very powerful and popular
programming/scripting language is available on Linux, known as Perl.
First Alternative offers two Perl
Programming courses.
PRACTICALS / TAKEAWAYS: Each student
leaves the course with their own set of training notes for the material
covered; around 120 pages per day of training.
| Every student who attends this course
will be issued with a signed certificate of course completion, which we
will be happy to "authenticate" upon future request. |
| On this course, we hand out a number
of quick reference sheets to each student on subjects such as vi and
Linux commands. |
SOFTWARE VERSIONS: We currently use
CentOS and RedHat Enterprise Server..
TOPICS COVERED ON THE COURSE
LINUX background and sourcing
Where do I obtain Linux? What are the supported platforms and hardware?
How about support services? What are the commercial license terms and
conditions? (i.e.GNU Public License)
Installing LINUX
Installing LINUX on a PC using the Red Hat ES and
SuSE versions (CentOS also now covered..). Overview of installation
process. Information required
before installing. Installation options, including disk partitioning
and
software packages. PC installation of linux from CD/DCD and the
network.
Boot configuration and booting post-build. Overview of Automated
building. Keeping your LINUX system up to date. Where to obtain support
and Linux resources. Accessing Linux documentation on-line and from
other sources. Post install configuration including the Redhat Package
Manager, YAST, yum, and vendor-specidic updates etc.
Startup and Shutdown
Switch on. Boot process and problems. The grub boot loader.
Installing grub from scratch. Using boot loaders to boot multiple
operating systems, including Solaris and Windows. Accessing the root
file system system from grub. Creating a bootable Grub CD image.
Configuring single user boot
facilities. kernel load. Loadable kernel modules; adding modules;
examining modules.. The Init process, /etc/inittab and the rc scripts.
Run states. Understanding and changing run states. Uisng chkconfig.
Adding your own
scripts to the boot process. Halting the system.
Adding and Maintaining Users
Concepts. Ownership of files, directories and processes. Classes of
user. Adding a user. Password control. Real and effective id. Using
Graphical tools for user management. Configuring the Windows
environment. Choosing and setting the display manager. Configuring
graphics hardware characteristsics.
File System Maintenance and Security
Utilities for file system management.(du, df, find) Timing commands
with crontab.
Protection mechanisms, including access modes, s and t bits, umask,
chown and chmod. Access Control Lists with setfacl and getfacl. File
system
structure and slicing. The mount command. Adding swap space. Making
room
on the file system. File system security. SELinux Overview.
Linux Groups
Overview. The group file. Group identification of files and
directories. Creating group entries, and using groups in a practical
way. User Private Groups in RedHat. Group-related commands.
Back-Up and Restore Utilities
Overview. Preparation. Tape types and capacities. Taking a full backup
with the dump command. The tar, cpio and mt
utilities. Taking full and partial backups. Verifying Backups.
Restoring
files and directories. Full system recovery. Booting into system
recovery mode using removable media.
Adding a Printer
Overview. Connection methods. Printer types. The Linux spooling
mechanisms available (CUPS, etc). Software modifications. Spooling
system commands. Administrator control commands. Networking a printer
and sharing printers.
Adding a Disk
Physical connection. Partitioning with fdisk. Creating different types
of filesystem with mkfs. Mounting and updating /etc/fstab.
Linux RAID and LVM
What is available in the Linux kernel? Using fdisk to
change partitions types to RAID. Creating RAID devices such as
linear, stripes, mirrors and RAID 5. Overview of the Logical
Volume facility.
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