Linux Administration

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Course Overview


Xpertised Offers Advanced and Personalized Instructor Led Online Classroom training on Linux Administration which gives you the opportunity to interact with a Linux Administration instructor and help you enhance yourself to meet the demands of the industry.

Learn from our instructors from the convenience of your home or office. Interact and learn live with trainers and other participants. File System Security and Management Shell Scripting and Kerberos Database Configuration User Administration Understand Installation and Initialisation Important Files and Directories, Services, Utilities Advanced File System Management Process monitoring and Package management Server Configurations Configuring SMB Service, SMTP service and Virtualization Kickstart Installation, IPv6 configuration

Course Content


Installation and Initialization

  • Introduction
  • Installation
  • Linux Architecture
  • Boot Process
  • Kernel
  • System Initialization
  • CLI
  • GRUB
  • GUI
  • Create and edit text files
  • Delete, copy, and move files and directories
  • Introduction to Bash Shell
  • Basic Commands
  • Editors
  • Man Pages
  • Boot systems into different targets manually & automatically

Package management and Process monitoring

  • Secure single-user mode
  • Shut down and reboot the system
  • RPM Package Manager
  • Installing and Removing Software
  • rpm Queries
  • rpm Verification
  • About yum
  • Using yum
  • Searching packages/files
  • Configuring local Repositories
  • What processes are?
  • The properties of a process
  • Parent processes and child processes
  • Killing processes and sending signals to a process (kill, killall, xkill)
  • How to start processes
  • Monitor them
  • Identify CPU
  • Adjust process priority
  • Start/stop
  • Check network services status
  • Configure networking and hostname resolution dynamically or statically

Important Files, Directories and Utilities

  • Control services and Daemons
  • Start and stop services
  • Configure services to start automatically at boot /dev /proc directories
  • System documentation under /usr/share/doc, Awk, Sed
  • Analyze text using grep, Regular expressions
  • Use tar, star, gzip, and bzip2 to archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files
  • Locate and interpret log files

System Services

  • Network Time Protocol
  • X Windows
  • SSH: Secure Shell (Access remote systems using ssh, SCP, Passwordless SSH, Configure key-based authentication for SSH)
  • Cron
  • Controlling Access to cron
  • System crontab Files
  • Daily Cron Jobs
  • Anacron Scheduler
  • Schedule tasks

User Administration

  • Adding a New User Account
  • User Private Groups
  • Modifying / Deleting User Accounts
  • Group Administration
  • Password Aging Policies
  • Switching Accounts
  • sudo access
  • Network Users
  • Authentication Configuration
  • SUID and SGID Executable
  • SGID Directories
  • The Sticky Bit
  • Default File Permissions
  • Changing file ownership (chown)
  • Changing file group ownership (chgrp)
  • Permissions on files
  • Permissions on directories
  • How permissions are applied
  • Changing permissions (chmod)
  • Access Control Lists (ACLs)

File System Security and Management

  • Device Recognition
  • Disk Partitioning
  • Managing Partitions
  • Making Filesystems (vfat, ext4, and xfs)
  • Mount and unmount NFS and CIFS network file systems
  • Filesystems and types
  • Labels
  • tune2fs
  • Mount Points and /etc/fstab
  • Mounting Filesystems with mount
  • Unmounting Filesystems
  • Handling Swap Files and Partitions
  • NFS Client and NFS server
  • NFS share for group collaboration
  • Mounting NFS Filesystems
  • Control access to NFS network shares using Kerberos
  • Automounter

Advanced file system management

  • Special file types
  • Symbolic links (ln -s)
  • Inodes and directory entries
  • Hard links
  • Preserving links while copying and archiving
  • Configuring the Quota System
  • Setting Quotas for Users
  • Reporting Quota Status
  • Define Logical Volume Manager
  • Creating Logical Volumes
  • Resizing Logical Volumes
  • Network Interfaces
  • IPv4 Addresses
  • Dynamic IPv4 Configuration
  • Static IPv4 Configuration
  • Device Aliases
  • Routing Table
  • Default Gateway
  • Verify IP Connectivity
  • Defining the Local Host Name
  • Local Resolver
  • Remote Resolvers
  • Verify DNS Connectivity
  • Network Tools
  • NFS Client and NFS server
  • NFS share for group collaboration

Server configurations

  • Function as a caching-only DNS server by configuring BIND
  • Forward DNS queries by configuring a caching-only name server
  • Troubleshoot DNS client issues
  • Configuring BIND options
  • Configuring directory location for zone files
  • Apache Overview
  • Apache Server Configuration
  • Virtual Hosts
  • Apache Access Configuration
  • Set up a basic CGI application
  • Configure TLS security
  • Configure private directories
  • Analyze and store logs

Shell scripting and Kerberos Authentication

  • Shell Scripting basics
  • Loops
  • Shell variables
  • Arrays
  • Writing scripts
  • Kerberos authentication

Samba and Mail services, Virtualization

  • Configure SMB to provide network share to clients
  • Forward all emails to Central mail server by configuring mail server
  • Introduction to KVM Virtualization
  • Virtual Machine installation
  • Configuring Virtual Machines
  • Install centos systems as virtual guests
  • Configure systems to launch virtual machines at boot

Advanced security and Networking concepts

  • SELinux Overview
  • SELinux Tools
  • SELinux Contexts
  • SELinux Booleans
  • Allow services to use non-standard ports using SELinux port labeling
  • Diagnose and report SELinux policy violations
  • Configure firewall settings
  • N/W port security
  • Route IP traffic and create static routes
  • Boot level security (GRUB)
  • Security need for TCP wrappers
  • Configure aggregated links between two systems
  • Use firewall and associated mechanisms such as custom rules, rich rules and zones
  • Configure network address translation
  • Modify and set kernel runtime parameters using Use /proc/sys and sysctl
  • Linux Containers

Database configuration

  • Install MariaDB
  • Schema Creation and Writing Queries
  • Backup & restore operations
  • Configure a system as either an iSCSI target or initiator

IPv6 configuration, Kickstart configuration

  • Ipv6 configuration
  • Kickstart installation using NFS, HTTP services
  • Setting Grub Password
  • Setting root password for single user mode from Grub page
  • Universally Unique ID (UUID) or label to configure systems to mount file systems at boot
  • List, create, and delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks

 

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