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Linux Advanced Administration
This three-day course is designed to cover
the more technically complex and difficult tasks confronting the Linux
system and network administrator. All topics will be accompanied by
extensive hands-on, with a minimum ratio of one fully-equipped
workstation per student. There will be ample time to put forward your
own topics for discussion and analysis. The topics are designed to
build
on the LA1 and LA2 administration courses in order to help prepare
students for the LPI and RedHat Linux certification examinations. The
course notes cover both RedHat and CentOS distributions.
Our Linux courses are suitable training for Linux LPI or RedHat Certification
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OBJECTIVES OF THE COURSE
To become proficient with Linux
administration and configuration to an advanced level, sufficient to
prepare for the RedHat and LPI certification exams.
*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:
Sep 2006
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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 configured Intel PC for the duration of the
course. Each student will be provided with a full set of training
notes.
A full reference for Linux resources will also be provided.A full range
of networking and other equipment is provided.
PREREQUISITES: You should be up to a
level taught in our Linux
Introduction, Linux
Utilities and Shell Programming, Linux
Systems Administration Parts 1 & 2 courses. In addition, you should ideally have
3-4 months practical full-time experience in a Linux administration
environment.
FOLLOW UPS:
You may find our Perl programming courses very useful if you need to
carry out lots of data manipulation, reporting and shell scripting. Perl Programming Overview
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 ES.
TOPICS COVERED ON THE COURSE
Network Configuration Review
A review of Linux network configuration, including interfaces, IP
addressing, and router setup
SAMBA
Installation, configuration and use of this
sophisticated (but free!) software for alowing Linux disk and printer
resources to be accessed by Windows PCs. You will see cofiguration
options in depth, with a fully-working practical set-up, with Wintel
systems available for testing. For the ultimate in SAMBA configuration
see our Samba 2-day workshop.
Apache Web Server
Installation, configuration and use of the
most commonly used web server software (it's even standard with
Solaris). How to set it up and provide a fully working web site,
including starting/stopping; runtime directives; modules; virtual
hosts,
redirects, logging control, etc. Also includes basic setup and using of
SSL and certificates. For the ultimate in Apache configuration see our Apache 2-day workshop.
Kickstart and Auto-build mechansims on
CentOS, RedHat and SuSE
In-depth session on building RedHat linux
automatically using the kick-start facility. Setting up DHCP
information
to support kick-start. Creating a kickstart file. Booting the build
client. Example of a kick-start file.
Creating similar facilities on the SuSE distribution.
Source packages
Download, unpack and install (e.g GNU)
source code packages, and successfully compile and install. Includes an
overview of the make utility and editing makefiles. Additional rpm
functions, plus non-rpm operations such as Debian Linux packages. The
creation and management of shared libraries.
X Windows
The X Display Manager xdm and its
configuration. Understanding remote X execution, including X terminal
overview. Customising window menus and other features. Configuring
Linux
to allow remote login sessions. Configuring a Linux machine to be an X
terminal. ("I can't run GUI tools on my server as I always telnet in" -
well now you can!)
Advanced networking
xinetd and tcpwrappers; ftp service
configuration, including anonymous ftp. DHCP basic server set-up, and
creating a DHCP client. A closer look at system network scripts. The
basics of email configuration. squid, innd NNTP server, xntpd.
SSH
Secure shell - how to obtain, install and
configure the secure shell for login, X Windows and ftp access.
System security
Review of system and network security
features. PAM configuration; using iptables to implement basic
firewalling policies. Setting up and using the tripwire facility on
RedHat. For those interested in system security, see our Security for Linux/UNIX administrators 2-day
course.
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