Linux System Administration II

This five-day course is designed for individuals with little to no previous Linux or UNIX administration experience. The focus of the class is to provide the student with an in-depth knowledge of common tasks performed by system administrators using both the Graphic User Interface and the command line interface.

Prior to attending this class, students should have the following experience:

• Completion of "OCS-linux-175: Linux System Administration I" or equivalent experience

• Software Administration Review
• Connecting to a repository
• Installing software
• Removing software
• Creating a repository
• rpm & yum
• Building RPM packages
  
  
• Advanced User Security
• sudo
• Kerberos
• SSSD
  
  
• Securing Files
• GnuPG
  
  
• Monitoring Network Traffic
• Monitoring open ports
• Viewing network traffic
  
  
• Advanced Network Administration
• IP Aliases
• Bonding
• Kernel tuning
• Routing
  
  
• Securing Network Traffic
• Firewall
• NAT
• Port forwarding
  
  
• NTP Configuration
• Setting up an NTP server
  
  
• Monitoring the System
• Configuring remote logging
• logwatch
• tmpwatch
• sar
  
  
• Enhanced Storage Devices
• Encrypted storage
• iSCSI
  
  
• Securing Access to Web Servers
• Encrypting Apache traffic
• Certificates
  
  
• SMTP Configuration
• SMTP
  
  
• DNS Configuration
• DNS Master & Slave administration
• Configuring caching-only servers
  
  
• Network File Sharing
• NFS
• CIFS
• FTP
  
  
• Troubleshooting Review
• Boot issues
• Fixing user accounts
• Networking errors
• Filesystem recovery
  
  
• BASH shell scripting Review
• Conditional statements
• Input/output
• Handling Signals
• Debugging

5 Days