Session 1: ADVANCED NETWORK CONFIGURATION & TROUBLESHOOTING
- Configuring the network card (ip link, ip addr)
- Network scripts
- Configuring routing (ip route)
- Serial communication
- Network troubleshooting and related tools (ethereal, tcpdump, ping, traceroute, netstat, arp, nmap, nc)
Session 2: NETWORK INSTALLATION OF LINUX
- Configuring a Linux installation server
- Creating a PXE boot environment
- Automatic installation
Session 3: LDAP
- Structure of an LDAP Tree
- Configuring the LDAP server (slapd.conf)
- Testing the LDAP server (ldapsearch)
- Adding information into LDAP (lpdapadd)
- Configuring the LDAP Clients (nsswitch.conf, ldap.conf)
Session 4: APACHE & SQUID
- APACHE main configuration files
- APACHE server configuration (main Section entries)
- Starting APACHE
- APACHE access configuration
- SQUID proxy server
- Configuring client browsers
- Starting SQUID
- The SQUID configuration file (squid.conf)
- SQUID security settings
Session 5: SAMBA
- The SAMBA configuration file (smb.conf)
- Testing the SAMBA configuration file (testparm)
- Configuring SAMBA users
- Starting SAMBA
- Testing SAMBA (smbclient, smbstatus)
- Managing Windows filesystems (smbmount, nmblookup)
- Accessing Windows shares
Session 6: THE DOMAIN NAME SERVER
- DNS operation
- Types of DNS Servers
- Domain Name Space
- Setting up a DNS server
- Server configuration files (named.conf and databases)
- DNS resource record formats
- Starting and managing the DNS Server (rcnamed, rndc)
- Testing the DNS Server (host, dig, nslookup)
- DNS Client set up (resolv.conf)
Session 7: NFS NETWORK SERVICES
- NFS operation and daemons (portmapper etc.)
- Setting up an NFS server (/etc/exports and exportfs)
- Setting up an NFS client (mount)
- Mounting NFS filesystems at boot (/etc/fstab)
- Using the automounter to access NFS mounts on demand
Session 8: LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT (LVM)
- LVM Overview
- Configuring LVM (pvcreate, vgcreate, vgextend, lvcreate etc.)
- Displaying information about the LVM environment (pvdisplay, vgdisplay, lvdisplay)
- Resizing Logical Volumes (lvextend, resize2fs, resize_reiserfs)
- Logical Volume Snapshots (lvcreate, lvdisplay)
Session 9: RAID
- RAID overview
- Raw devices and partitions
- Creating a RAID device (fdisk, mdadm)
- Managing a RAID device (mdadm, /proc/mdstat)
- Creating and mount a file system on a RAID device
- Hot swapping failed drives
Session 10: SECURING LINUX
- System security checklist
- User level security
- Limiting access to terminals
- Limiting access to files via ACLs (setfacl, getfacl)
- Limiting access to files by extended permissions and attributes (lsattr, chattr)
- System wide security settings and file access (chkstat)
Session 11: FIREWALL CONFIGURATION
- Basic packets and routing
- Netfilter (iptables)
- Packet filtering (iptables, chains, rule targets, connection tracking)
- Network address translation (NAT)
Session 12: PLUGGABLE AUTHENTICATION MODULES (PAM)
- The main PAM configuration files (/etc/pam.d directory)
- Configuration file formats
- Controlling user access using the configuration files
Session 13: KERNEL COMPILATION AND INSTALLATION
- Kernel building
- Monolithic and Modular kernel design
- Listing modules (lsmod, modinfo)
- Modifying the kernel configuration
- Binary kernel packages
- Installing the kernel sources
- Configuring and building a kernel
- Editing the GRUB/LILO configuration file
- Kernel tuning (/proc sysctl.conf, sysctl)
Session 14: COMPILING SOFTWARE FROM SOURCE
- Installing programs from source (tar, tarball)
- Compiling Open Source Software (configure, make)
- Installing the compiled software (make install)
- Managing shared libraries (ldd)
- Compiling from SRC (source) RPM packages (rpmbuild, rpm)
Session 15: SYSTEM MONITORING & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT
- System performance monitoring
- Collecting system performance information (sar)
- Measuring virtual memory (vmstat)
- Measuring I/O performance (iostat)
- Performance Guidelines
- System Accounting - collecting process and user information (rcacct, ac, lastcomm, sa)
Session 16: HARDWARE CONFIGURATION
- The Hotplug system
- Devices and Interfaces.
- The sysfs filesystem and persistent names
- Device initialisation and interface configuration
- Hotplug and Coldplug
- The Udev system
Session 17: XEN
- Basic definition
- XEN components
- The Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)
- Virtualization Modes (Fully Virtual, Paravirtual)
- System requirements
- Installing XEN
- Creating a Virtual Machine
- Managing the VM environment (Yast and xm)