Linux System Administration (LPI & SCA)

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This instructor led Linux System Administration (LPI & SCA) training course is designed to teach the key administration,security,networking and performance tasks required on a Linux Enterprise system.

£1950

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5 Days

Course Details

This instructor led Linux System Administration (LPI & SCA) training course is designed to teach the key administration,security,networking and performance tasks required on a Linux Enterprise system.

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and CompTIA Linux+ certification curriculums. Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered

 

Audience

This instructor led Linux System Administration (LPI & SCA) training course is designed to teach the key administration,security,networking and performance tasks required on a Linux Enterprise system.

Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and CompTIA Linux+ certification curriculums.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered

 

Objectives

On completion of this course the delegate will have the required technical knowledge to administer a Linux server within the Enterprise. They will have gained practical experience of configuring administrative,networking,performance and security aspects of a Linux Enterprise system.

The delegate will possess the essential knowledge required to study towards the Linux Administrator LPIC-1 and CompTIA Linux+ certifications.

 

Contents

COURSE INTRODUCTION

  • Administration and Course Materials

  • Course Structure and Agenda

  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

SESSION 1: FILE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

  • File system types

  • MBR vs GPT partition tables

  • Partitioning a disk

  • Comparison of Linux filesystems

  • Creating Btrfs,XFS and EXT filesystems

  • Displaying disk usage

  • Mounting and unmounting file systems

  • Configuring labels and UUIDs

  • Locating files in use

  • Exercise

SESSION 2: ADVANCED FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS

  • Logical Volume Management

  • Checking and repairing the file system

  • Growing file systems

  • Filesystem debugging and defragmentation

  • Listing swap areas

  • Creating and removing swap areas

  • Exercise

SESSION 3: USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

  • User Private Group scheme

  • Files used in creating a user

  • Adding users via the command line and YaST

  • Managing groups

  • Password administration

  • Bash Shell environment

  • Configuring user limits

  • Extended permissions

  • Configuring sudo

  • Sudo aliases and groups

  • Monitoring login activity

  • Exercise

SESSION 4: PACKAGE MANAGEMENT

  • The Red Hat Package Manager (rpm)

  • Verifying Software

  • Querying installed and uninstalled packages

  • Installing and removing packages

  • Upgrade mechanism

  • Converting rpm packages to cpio format

  • Enhanced package management with zypper

  • Exercise

SESSION 5: SYSTEM LOGGING

  • rsyslog configuration

  • Configuring remote logging

  • Testing using logger

  • Managing logs with logrotate

  • Basic and advanced journal queries

  • Configuring the journal

  • Exercise

SESSION 6: SYSTEM SECURITY AND ENCRYPTION

  • Secure shell OpenSSH

  • Public/private key authentication

  • X11 forwarding

  • The SUSE firewall

  • Encryption with GNU Privacy Guard GPG

  • Managing firewalld from the GUI and command line

  • Exercise

SESSION 7: SYSTEM STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN

  • System startup process

  • Startup script framework

  • Managing services using YaST

  • Starting and stopping services dynamically

  • Creating Systemd services,timers and mount units

  • Running transient units

  • suseconfig and /etc/sysconfig

  • Changing run levels and shutdown

  • Exercise

SESSION 8: PROCESS MONITORING AND SCHEDULING

  • Monitoring processes

  • Graphical monitoring tools

  • Utilising terminal multiplexers

  • Monitoring with watch

  • Shared libraries

  • Scheduling processes with at

  • The cron configuration files

  • Scheduling processes with cron

  • crontab command options

  • Managing anacron

  • Exercise

SESSION 9: LINUX NETWORKING

  • Basic network configuration

  • IPv4 and IPv6 addressing

  • Network protocols

  • Network services and port numbers

  • Configuring IPv4 and IPv6 with ip and Network Manager

  • Configuration with systemd-networkd

  • Managing network devices

  • Resolving hostnames and DNS

  • Searching domains

  • Routing under Linux

  • Exercise

SESSION 10: INTERNET SERVICES

  • Network services

  • Managing services with systemd sockets

  • Checking network service ports

  • Analysing network packets

  • Configuring and monitoring network time

  • Configuring the hardware clock

  • Remote administration

  • Exercise

SESSION 11: CONFIGURING PRINTERS

  • The Common Unix Printing Service CUPS

  • Printer devices and configuration

  • Installing printers

  • Configuring the CUPS server

  • Printer options

  • Print commands

  • Managing print queues

  • Exercise

SESSION 12: LOCALISATION

  • Localisation overview

  • Locale variables

  • Converting character sets and encoding

  • Configuring the locale and keymap

  • Configuring the system and user time zone

  • Exercise

SESSION 13: VIRTUALISATION,CLOUD SERVICES AND CONTAINERS

  • Configuring KVM virtualisation

  • Installing virtual systems

  • Understanding Linux Containers

  • Creating and running Docker containers

  • Iaas cloud

  • Exercise

SESSION 14: DEVICES UNDER LINUX

  • Device services

  • Device file naming conventions

  • The /sys and /proc directories

  • Examining hardware

  • Hardware and software configuration messages

  • ACPI service and Desktop Bus

  • Managing disk parameters

  • Detecting new hardware

  • System overview: siga

  • Exercise

SESSION 15: BACKUP AND RESTORE

  • Archiving with tar and cpio

  • Device cloning with dd

  • Compressing files

  • Archiving RAR files

  • unar and other backup tools

  • Exercise

SESSION 16: TROUBLESHOOTING

  • Troubleshooting process

  • Booting into maintenance mode

  • Booting the rescue system

  • Exercise

ADDENDUM: REFERENCE MATERIALS (PROVIDED WITHIN THE COURSE HANDBOOK FOR ADDITIONAL READING)

APPENDIX A - INSTALLING LINUX

  • Installing Linux

APPENDIX B - ELECTRONIC MAIL

  • Configuring Postfix and Sendmail

  • Mail protocols

  • Mail commands

APPENDIX C – LINUX DESKTOPS AND ACCESSIBILITY

  • Configuring the X Windows GUI interface

  • Display protocols

  • The GNOME,KDE and Xfce desktops

  • Configuring the desktop for disabled users

APPENDIX D - PACKAGE MANAGEMENT

  • Additional software package management tools

APPENDIX E - DEPRECATED SERVICES

  • The xinetd Daemon

  • TCP Wrappers

APPENDIX F - ADDITIONAL COMMANDS

  • Miscellaneous Shell commands

 

Prequisities

This Linux System Administration (LPI & SCA) course assumes good knowledge of the Linux operating system in an Enterprise environment to the level covered in the Linux Introduction course. Alternatively,relevant experience of UNIX or Linux servers is required,preferably within an enterprise environment.

Knowledge of Linux Shell Programming to the level covered on the Linux Shell Programming course would also be beneficial.

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