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Linux Administration and Support: Hands-On
Course: 144
Type: Hands-On Training
Duration: 4 Days
You Will Learn How To
- Install, configure and support Linux servers for reliability, functionality and performance
- Control and troubleshoot the boot process
- Create and extend volume management and mount external media
- Deploy software components from source and packaged distributions
- Deliver file, print and network services for both UNIX and Windows clients
- Build, install and tune a customized Linux kernel for improved functionality
Course Benefits Open source software and operating systems continue to increase in popularity, allowing organizations to maintain complex systems more cost-effectively. The need for administrators who can leverage the benefits of these systems is growing at a rapid rate. In this course, you gain the knowledge and skills required to build, manage and tune a Linux server to meet your organization's critical administrative needs.Who Should Attend Those responsible for the design, support and maintenance of new and existing Linux systems benefit from this course. Knowledge of Linux at the level of Course 143, "Linux Comprehensive Introduction," is required.Hands-On Training Extensive exercises using Red Hat Enterprise Linux provide you with hands-on experience administering and supporting Linux. Exercises include:
- Designing and performing an installation
- Recovering from catastrophic failure
- Creating and modifying users and groups
- Administering logical volumes and file systems
- Configuring network services
- Sharing files and printers with Samba
- Building a high-availability load-balancing cluster
- Creating a customized kernel
Course 144 Content
- The roles of an administrator
- Open source licensing
- Acquiring your Linux distribution
- Structuring the file system
- Selecting software packages
- Performing the installation
- Supporting audio and X
- Video card, monitor, keyboard, mouse
- Choosing the boot loader
- Specifying the target run level
- Following the boot scripts sequence
- Assigning services with chkconfig
- The /etc configuration hierarchy
- Troubleshooting a boot loader
- Recovering with rescue media
- Defining users in passwd and shadow
- Assigning users to groups
- Establishing and modifying accounts
- ps
- pstree
- top
- vmstat
- Examining the /proc file system
- Signaling processes with kill and pkill
- Capturing important events with syslog
- Installing new disks
- Establishing and extending logical volumes
- Creating and tuning journaled file systems
- Attaching to network file servers
- Backing up and restoring data
- Repairing file systems with fsck
- Manipulating portable tar archives
- Installing and updating software with Red Hat Package Manager (RPM)
- Listing and checking system software
- Alternative packaging schemes
- Working with SRPMs
- Resolving dependency issues
- Packaging binary RPMs
- Specifying interface device drivers
- Setting IP addresses and netmasks
- Configuring stand-alone network services
- Running services through xinetd
- Offering local and network print services
- Updating printer drivers
- Sharing files with NFS
- Emulating Windows services with Samba
- Authenticating users
- Probing the PCI bus with lspci
- Discovering new hardware with udev
- Manipulating kernel data structures
- Balancing network load with Linux Virtual Server (LVS)
- Ensuring high availability
- Deciding when to upgrade
- Inserting new device drivers
- Determining required functionality
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Linux is a registered trademark of Linus Torvalds. Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. in the United States and other countries.
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