Enterprise Linux System Administration Fasttrack

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Course Description

This Enterprise Linux System Administration Fasttrack training course was designed to suit for the number of our private clients. It is based on the content covered on our Enterprise Linux System Administration course (with some omissions) and includes some topics from our Enterprise Linux Network Services course. 
 
Supported Distributions:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

Course Outline

1. Linux Hardware Discovery, Interaction and Control

1. Hardware Discovery Tools
2. Configuring New Hardware with hwinfo
3. Hardware and System Clock
4. Console
5. Virtual Terminals
6. Serial Ports
7. SCSI Devices
8. USB Devices
9. USB Configuration
10. Common UNIX Printing System
11. Defining a Printer
12. Managing Optical Media
13. Tape Libraries
14. Managing Linux Device Files
15. Kernel Hardware Info – /sys/
16. /sys/ Structure
17. udev
18. Kernel Modules
19. Configuring Kernel Components and Modules
20. Handling Module Dependencies
21. Configuring the Kernel via /proc/

Lab Tasks

1. Adjusting Kernel Options
2. Configuring Print Queues
3. Introduction to Troubleshooting Labs
4. Troubleshooting Practice: Kernel Modules

2. Boot Process and SYSV INIT

1. Booting Linux on PCs
2. GRUB Configuration
3. Boot Parameters
4. Initial ramdisk
5. /sbin/init
6. System Init Styles
7. Linux Runlevels
8. /etc/inittab
9. /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
10. SUSE /etc/init.d/boot
11. Runlevel Implementation
12. System Configuration Files
13. RHEL6 Configuration Utilities
14. SLES11 Configuration Utilities
15. Typical SysV Init Script
16. The /etc/rc.local File
17. The /etc/init.d/*.local Files
18. Managing Daemons
19. Controlling Service Startup
20. Shutdown and Reboot 

Lab Tasks

1. Boot Process
2. GRUB Command Line
3. Basic GRUB Security
4. Managing Services With chkconfig
5. Troubleshooting Practice: Boot Process

3. Software Maintenance

1. Managing Software
2. RPM Features
3. RPM Architecture
4. RPM Package Files
5. Working With RPMs
6. Querying and Verifying with rpm
7. Updating the Kernel RPM
8. Dealing With RPM & YUM Digest Changes
9. Yum Plugins
10. YUM Repositories
11. YUM Repository Groups
12. Compiling/Installing from Source
13. Manually Installed Shared Libraries
14. Installing Source RPM Packages

Lab Tasks

1. Managing Software with RPM
2. Creating a Custom RPM Repository
3. Querying the RPM Database
4. Installing Software via RPM & Source and Rebuilding SRPMs

4. Filesystem Administration

1. Partitioning Disks with fdisk
2. Partitioning Disks with parted
3. Filesystem Creation
4. Mounting Filesystems
5. Filesystem Maintenance
6. Persistent Block Devices
7. Resizing Filesystems
8. Swap
9. Filesystem Structures
10. Determining Disk Usage With df and du
11. Configuring Disk Quotas
12. Setting Quotas
13. Viewing and Monitoring Quotas
14. Filesystem Attributes
15. Backup Software
16. Backup Examples

Lab Tasks

1. Creating and Managing Filesystems
2. Hot Adding Swap
3. Setting User Quotas
4. Using rsync and ssh for Backups
5. Using tar and cpio for Backups
6. Using dump and restore for Backups
7. Creating ISO Images for Backups

5. LVM & RAID

1. Logical Volume Management
2. Implementing LVM
3. Creating Logical Volumes
4. Manipulating VGs & LVs
5. Advanced LVM Concepts
6. system-config-lvm
7. SLES Graphical Disk Tool
8. RAID Concepts
9. Array Creation with mdadm
10. Software RAID Monitoring
11. Software RAID Control and Display

Lab Tasks

1. Creating and Managing LVM Volumes
2. Creating and Managing a RAID-5 Array

6. Remote Storage Administration

1. Remote Storage Overview
2. Remote Filesystem Protocols
3. Remote Block Device Protocols
4. File Sharing via NFS
5. NFSv4
6. NFS Clients
7. NFS Server Configuration
8. Implementing NFSv4
9. AutoFS
10. AutoFS Configuration
11. Accessing Windows/Samba Shares from Linux
12. SAN Multipathing
13. Multipath Configuration
14. Multipathing Best Practices
15. iSCSI Architecture
16. Open-iSCSI Initiator Implementation
17. iSCSI Initiator Discovery
18. iSCSI Initiator Node Administration
19. Mounting iSCSI Targets at Boot
20. iSCSI Multipathing Considerations

Lab Tasks

1. Using autofs
2. NFS Server Configuration
3. iSCSI Initiator Configuration

 
7. Security Administration

1. Security Concepts
2. Tightening Default Security
3. SuSE Security Checker
4. Security Advisories
5. File Access Control Lists
6. Manipulating FACLs
7. Viewing FACLs
8. Backing Up FACLs
9. File Creation Permissions with umask
10. User Private Group Scheme
11. Alternatives to UPG
12. AppArmor
13. SELinux Security Framework
14. SELinux Modes
15. SELinux Commands
16. Choosing an SELinux Policy
17. SELinux Booleans
18. Permissive Domains
19. SELinux Policy Tools
20. Basic Firewall Activation

Lab Tasks

1. User Private Groups
2. Using Filesystem ACLs
3. Exploring SELinux Modes
4. SELinux File Contexts

8. Basic Networking

1. IPv4 Fundamentals
2. TCP/UDP Fundamentals
3. Linux Network Interfaces
4. Ethernet Hardware Tools
5. Network Configuration with ip Command
6. Configuring Routing Tables
7. IP to MAC Address Mapping with ARP
8. Starting and Stopping Interfaces
9. NetworkManager
10. DNS Clients
11. DHCP Clients
12. system-config-network{tui,cmd}
13. SUSE YaST Network Configuration Tool
14. Network Diagnostics
15. Information from netstat and ss
16. Managing Network-Wide Time
17. Continual Time Sync with NTP
18. Configuring NTP Clients
19. Useful NTP Commands 

Lab Tasks

1. Network Discovery
2. Basic Client Networking
3. NTP Client Configuration

9. Advanced Networking

1. Multiple IP Addresses
2. Configuring a DHCP server
3. Enabling IPv6
4. Interface Bonding
5. Interface Bridging
6. 802.1q VLANS
7. Tuning Kernel Network Settings

Lab Tasks

1. Multiple IP Addresses Per Network Interface
2. Configuring IPv6
3. Troubleshooting Practice: Networking

10. Log File Administration

1. System Logging
2. Syslog-ng
3. Rsyslog
4. /etc/rsyslog.conf
5. Log Management
6. Log Anomaly Detector

Lab Tasks

1. Setting up a Full Debug Logfile
2. Remote Syslog Configuration

11. Monitoring & Troubleshooting

1. System Status – Memory
2. System Status – I/O
3. System Status – CPU
4. Performance Trending with sar
5. Process Accounting
6. Troubleshooting Basics: The Process
7. Troubleshooting Basics: The Tools
8. strace and ltrace
9. Common Problems
10. Troubleshooting Incorrect File Permissions
11. Inability to Boot
12. Typos in Configuration Files
13. Corrupt Filesystems
14. RHEL6 Rescue Environment
15. SUSE Rescue Environment

Lab Tasks

1. Recovering Damaged MBR
2. Using BSD Process Accounting

12. LDAP Concepts and Clients

1. LDAP: History and Uses
2. LDAP: Data Model Basics
3. LDAP: Protocol Basics
4. LDAP: Applications
5. LDAP: Search Filters
6. LDIF: LDAP Data Interchange Format
7. OpenLDAP Client Tools
8. Alternative LDAP Tools

Lab Tasks

1. Querying LDAP

13. OpenLDAP Servers

1. Popular LDAP Server Implementations
2. OpenLDAP: Server Architecture
3. OpenLDAP: Backends
4. OpenLDAP: Replication
5. OpenLDAP: Configuration Options
6. OpenLDAP: Configuration Sections
7. OpenLDAP: Global Parameters
8. OpenLDAP: Database Parameters
9. OpenLDAP Server Tools
10. Enabling LDAP-based Login
11. System Security Services Daemon (SSSD)

Lab Tasks

1. Building An OpenLDAP Server
2. Enabling TLS For An OpenLDAP Server
3. Enabling LDAP-based Logins

14. Using Apache

1. HTTP Operation
2. Apache Architecture
3. Dynamic Shared Objects
4. Adding Modules to Apache
5. Apache Configuration Files
6. httpd.conf – Server Settings
7. httpd.conf – Main Configuration
8. HTTP Virtual Servers
9. Virtual Hosting DNS Implications
10. httpd.conf – VirtualHost Configuration
11. Port and IP based Virtual Hosts
12. Name-based Virtual Host
13. Apache Logging
14. Log Analysis
15. The Webalizer

Lab Tasks

1. Apache Architecture
2. Apache Architecture
3. Apache Content
4. Apache Content
5. Configuring Virtual Hosts

15. Apache Security

1. Virtual Hosting Security Implications
2. Delegating Administration
3. Directory Protection
4. Directory Protection with AllowOverride
5. Common Uses for .htaccess
6. Symmetric Encryption Algorithms
7. Asymmetric Encryption Algorithms
8. Digital Certificates
9. SSL Using mod_ssl.so

Lab Tasks

1. Using .htaccess Files
2. Using .htaccess Files
3. Using SSL Certificates with Apache
4. Using SSL Certificates with Apache

16. Apache Server-side Scripting Administration

1. Dynamic HTTP Content
2. PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
3. Developer Tools for PHP
4. Installing PHP
5. Configuring PHP
6. Securing PHP
7. Security Related php.ini Configuration
8. Java Servlets and JSP
9. Apache's Tomcat
10. Installing Java SDK
11. Installing Tomcat Manually
12. Using Tomcat with Apache

Lab Tasks

1. CGI Scripts in Apache
2. CGI Scripts in Apache
3. Apache's Tomcat
4. Using Tomcat with Apache
5. Installing Applications with Apache and Tomcat

Learning Path

• Please contact us for more suggestions.

• LPIC-1 Part 1 Linux Administrator Certification
• Introduction to Perl Programming
• Linux Troubleshooting
• Bash Shell Programming 4 Day Workshop
• Enterprise Linux System Administration
• Enterprise Linux Network Services

Ways to Attend

• Attend a public course, if there is one available. Please check our schedule, or register your interest in joining a course in your area.
• Private onsite Team training also available, please contact us to discuss. We can customise this course to suit your business requirements.