Enterprise Linux System Administration
Course Duration
5 Days
Audience
Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.
Prerequisites
Students should already be comfortable working in a Linux or Unix environment. Fundamentals such as the Linux filesystem, process management, and how to edit files will not be covered in class. An understanding of network concepts, and the TCP/IP protocol suite is helpful. These skills are taught in our Linux Fundamentals course.
Course Description
This is an in-depth course that explores installation, configuration and maintenance of Linux systems. The course focuses on issues universal to every workstation and server. Like all Guru Labs courses, the course material is designed to provide extensive hands-on experience. Topics include: installation and configuration; the boot process; user and group administration; filesystem administration, including quotas, FACLs, RAID and LVM; task automation; client networking; SELinux; software management; log files; troubleshooting; and more.
Course Outline
- LINUX KERNEL & DEVICES Hardware Discovery Tools
- Configuring New Hardware with hwinfo
- Kernel Hardware Info – /sys/
- /sys/ Structure
- udev
- Managing Linux Device Files
- List Block Devices
- SCSI Devices
- USB Devices
- USB Architecture
- Kernel Modules
- Configuring Kernel Components and Modules
- Handling Module Dependencies
- Configuring the Kernel via /proc/
- Console
- Virtual Terminals
- Keyboard & locale configuration
- Serial Ports
- Random Numbers and /dev/random
- Adjusting Kernel Options
- Linux Kernel Driver Compilation
- Introduction to Troubleshooting Labs
- Troubleshooting Practice: Kernel Modules
- SYSTEMD OVERVIEW System Boot Method Overview
- systemd System and Service Manager
- Modifying systemd services
- Systemd Service Sandboxing Features
- systemd Targets
- Using systemd
- Linux Runlevels Aliases