Unix Administration 4 Day

To attend this course you must have a good command line knowledge of Linux or Unix. This course assumes you have lready have an installed Unix system, but need to configure it, understand its current set up, or modify it.
This course covers all essential administration tasks that you require to successfully work with a Unix system, and approaches it from a generic operating system point of view, providing the differences between the flavours of Unix.

ON COMPLETION

  • Use the basic commands to help identify log file information quickly
  • Find files in the Unix system that are essential
  • Administer user accounts
  • Understand the Unix file system concepts
  • Add new disks and file systems
  • Understand and use logical volume management
  • Understand, modify and debug the Unix startup process
  • Work with Unix security
  • Monitor and tune Unix systems
  • Use network utilities to debug networking
  • Set up basic networking configurations
  • Install and update software and patches
  • Perform backups of data

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

You should attend if you already have an existing Unix system that needs to be configured, modified or generally understand the administration of the Unix systems to a technical level.

COURSE WORK

The course work is based around a 50/50 approach to lecture and hands on giving the attendee the chance to set up their own Unix system and network.

PRE-REQUISITS

A Unix/Linux Fundamentals course and 3 - 6 months solid hands on use of Unix/Linux. Alternatively if you have 2 or more years of Unix/Linux hands on or are converting from Unix to Linux this is acceptable.

DURATION: 4 DAYS

PRICE: Call for latest

1st Day: Start 9:30am - Finish 5:00pm
Subsequent Days: Start 9:30am - Finish 5:00pm

COURSE CONTENT

Overview of Systems Administration

Unix history, responsibilities, working as root, getting help, useful administrator commands, system administration tools.

User Administration

Create, modify and delete user accounts, set up special accounts, and default attributes.

File Systems Basics

File system tour, files and directories, special files, links, permissions and file system size monitoring and partitioning.

Advanced ile System Concepts

What is a file system, types, the virtual file system and its workings, logical volume management.. This is a concepts chapter.

Disk Management

Creating file systems, making file systems visible, expanding file systems and logical volume manager, checking and repairing file systems.

Unix Processes

Terminology and conepts, listing and identifying processes, /proc and job scheduling.

Start Up & Shutdown

The start up process, files and directories involved, modifying start up, debugging start up, shutting down a Unix system.

Unix System Security

Dealing with local/internal system security, how to secure your network connections using TCP wrappers and iptables.

Performance Monitoring & Tuning

Why, what and when of monitoring, tools supplied as standard, file system tuning, swap management and kernel tuning.

Network Utilities

IP addressing and netmasks, routing, host configuration, DNS and useful networking commands for debugging.

Configuring TCP/IP

Understanding the configuration files, ifconfig, internet services daemon, network start up, monitoring and debugging.

Package Management

Installing, updating and indentifying software, patching the Unix system.

Backups

Perform generic backups of data or critical files on your Unix system using basic generic tools.