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GL986 - Enterprise Linux Services

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Enterprise Linux Services custom course for BCIT

Current Version: B00

Prerequisites:

Custom requirements

Supported Distributions:

SUSE Linux Enterprise 11

Course Outline:

Installing SLES11
1. YaST Install Program Interface
2. Network Installation
3. SLP for SUSE Linux Installation
4. Installation Choices
5. Kernel Crash Dump Configuration
6. Creating AutoYaST2 Files
7. Using AutoYaST2 files
8. linuxrc Automation
9. Installation Diagnostics
10. After The First Reboot
11. A Typical Install
12. Managing Software
13. Using the Zypper command
14. Zypper Services and Catalogs
Lab Tasks
1. SUSE Installation
2. Managing Zypper Repositories
3. Using Zypper
Boot Process and SysV Init
1. Booting Linux on PCs
2. GRUB Configuration
3. /sbin/init
4. /etc/inittab
5. SUSE /etc/init.d/boot
6. Runlevel Implementation
7. System Configuration Files
8. SLES11 Configuration Utilities
9. Typical SysV Init Script
10. The /etc/init.d/*.local Files
11. Managing Daemons
12. Controlling Service Startup
13. Shutdown and Reboot
Lab Tasks
1. Boot Process
2. GRUB Command Line
3. Basic GRUB Security
4. Managing Services With chkconfig
5. Troubleshooting Practice: Boot Process
Networking
1. Linux Network Interfaces
2. Ethernet Hardware Tools
3. Network Configuration with ip Command
4. Multiple IP Addresses
5. Configuring Routing Tables
6. IP to MAC Address Mapping with ARP
7. Starting and Stopping Interfaces
8. NetworkManager
9. DNS Clients
10. DHCP Clients
11. Configuring a DHCP server
12. SUSE YaST Network Configuration Tool
13. Network Diagnostics
14. Information from netstat and ss
15. Managing Network-Wide Time
16. Continual Time Sync with NTP
17. Configuring NTP Clients
18. Useful NTP Commands
Lab Tasks
1. Network Discovery
2. Basic Client Networking
3. NTP Client Configuration
4. Multiple IP Addresses Per Network Interface
The Linux Filesystem
1. Filesystem Support
2. Navigating the Filesystem
3. Displaying Directory Contents
4. File Ownership
5. Default Group Ownership
6. File and Directory Permissions
7. File Creation Permissions with umask
8. Changing File Permissions
9. SUID and SGID on files
10. SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
Lab Tasks
1. Navigating Directories and Listing Files
2. File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
Manipulating Files
1. Directory Manipulation
2. File Manipulation
3. Deleting and Creating Files
4. Physical Unix File Structure
5. Filesystem Links
6. File Extensions and Content
7. Displaying Files
8. Previewing Files
9. Displaying Binary Files
10. Searching the Filesystem
11. Alternate Search Method
12. Producing File Statistics
Lab Tasks
1. Manipulating Files and Directories
2. File Examination & Search Commands
User/Group Administration
1. User and Group Concepts
2. User Administration
3. Modifying Accounts
4. Group Administration
5. Password Aging
6. Default User Files
7. Controlling Logins
8. Manual DS Client Configuration
9. SLES Graphical DS Client Configuration
Lab Tasks
1. User and Group Administration
2. Using LDAP for Centralized User Accounts
3. Troubleshooting Practice: Account Management
Process Administration
1. Automating Tasks
2. at/batch
3. cron
4. The crontab Command
5. crontab Format
6. /etc/cron.*/ Directories
Lab Tasks
1. Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
2. Adding System cron Jobs
Monitoring & Troubleshooting
1. System Status â€“ Memory
2. System Status â€“ I/O
3. System Status â€“ CPU
4. Performance Trending with sar
5. Process Accounting
6. Troubleshooting Basics: The Process
7. Troubleshooting Basics: The Tools
8. strace and ltrace
9. Common Problems
10. Troubleshooting Incorrect File Permissions
11. Inability to Boot
12. Typos in Configuration Files
13. Corrupt Filesystems
14. SUSE Rescue Environment
Lab Tasks
1. Recovering Damaged MBR
2. Using BSD Process Accounting
DNS Concepts
1. Naming Services
2. DNS â€“ A Better Way
3. The Domain Name Space
4. Delegation and Zones
5. Server Roles
6. Resolving Names
7. Resolving IP Addresses
8. Basic BIND Administration
9. Configuring the Resolver
10. Testing Resolution
Lab Tasks
1. Configuring a Slave Name Server
Configuring BIND
1. BIND Configuration Files
2. named.conf Syntax
3. named.conf Options Block
4. Creating a Site-Wide Cache
5. rndc Key Configuration
6. Zones In named.conf
7. Zone Database File Syntax
8. SOA â€“ Start of Authority
9. A & PTR â€“ Address & Pointer Records
10. NS â€“ Name Server
11. CNAME & MX â€“ Alias & Mail Host
12. Abbreviations and Gotchas
13. $GENERATE, $ORIGIN, and $INCLUDE
Lab Tasks
1. Use rndc to Control named
2. Configuring BIND Zone Files
Creating DNS Hierarchies
1. Subdomains and Delegation
2. Subdomains
3. Delegating Zones
4. in-addr.arpa. Delegation
5. Issues with in-addr.arpa.
6. RFC2317 & in-addr.arpa.
Lab Tasks
1. Create a Subdomain in an Existing Domain
2. Subdomain Delegation
Advanced BIND DNS Features
1. Address Match Lists & ACLs
2. Split Namespace with Views
3. Restricting Queries
4. Restricting Zone Transfers
5. Running BIND in a chroot jail
6. Dynamic DNS Concepts
7. Allowing Dynamic DNS Updates
8. DDNS Administration with nsupdate
9. Common Problems
10. Common Problems
11. Securing DNS With TSIG
Lab Tasks
1. Configuring Dynamic DNS
2. Securing BIND DNS
LDAP Concepts and Clients
1. LDAP: History and Uses
2. LDAP: Data Model Basics
3. LDAP: Protocol Basics
4. LDAP: Applications
5. LDAP: Search Filters
6. LDIF: LDAP Data Interchange Format
7. OpenLDAP Client Tools
8. Alternative LDAP Tools
Lab Tasks
1. Querying LDAP
OpenLDAP Servers
1. Popular LDAP Server Implementations
2. OpenLDAP: Server Architecture
3. OpenLDAP: Backends
4. OpenLDAP: Replication
5. OpenLDAP: Configuration Options
6. OpenLDAP: Configuration Sections
7. OpenLDAP: Global Parameters
8. OpenLDAP: Database Parameters
9. OpenLDAP Server Tools
10. Enabling LDAP-based Login
Lab Tasks
1. Building An OpenLDAP Server
2. Enabling TLS For An OpenLDAP Server
3. Enabling LDAP-based Logins
SMTP Theory
1. SMTP
2. SMTP Terminology
3. SMTP Architecture
4. SMTP Commands
5. SMTP Extensions
6. SMTP AUTH
7. SMTP STARTTLS
8. SMTP Session
Postfix
1. Postfix Features
2. Postfix Architecture
3. Postfix Components
4. Postfix Configuration
5. master.cf
6. main.cf
7. Postfix Map Types
8. Postfix Pattern Matching
9. Advanced Postfix Options
10. Virtual Domains
11. Postfix Mail Filtering
12. Configuration Commands
13. Management Commands
14. Postfix Logging
15. Logfile Analysis
16. chrooting Postfix
17. Postfix, Relaying and SMTP AUTH
18. SMTP AUTH Server and Relay Control
19. SMTP AUTH Clients
20. Postfix / TLS
21. TLS Server Configuration
22. Postfix Client Configuration for TLS
23. Other TLS Clients
24. Ensuring TLS Security
Lab Tasks
1. Configuring Postfix
2. Postfix Network Configuration
3. Postfix Virtual Host Configuration
4. Postfix SMTP AUTH Configuration
5. Postfix STARTTLS Configuration
6. SUSE Postfix Configuration Cleanup

Xen Virtualization
1. Virtualization: What and Why?
2. What is Xen?
3. Xen Networking
4. Live Migration of Xen Virtual Servers
5. xend Configuration
6. Guest Config Files
7. The xm Command
8. Common xm Usage
Lab Tasks
1. Installing a Virtual Machine
2. Creating a Bootstrapped Xen Guest
Mail Services and Retrieval
1. Filtering Email
2. Procmail
3. SpamAssassin
4. Bogofilter
5. amavisd-new Mail Filtering
6. Accessing Email
7. The IMAP4 Protocol
8. Dovecot POP3/IMAP Server
9. Cyrus IMAP/POP3 Server
10. Cyrus IMAP MTA Integration
11. Cyrus Mailbox Administration
12. Fetchmail
13. SquirrelMail
14. Mailing Lists
15. GNU Mailman
16. Mailman Configuration
Lab Tasks
1. Configuring Procmail & SpamAssassin
2. Configuring Cyrus IMAP
3. Dovecot TLS Configuration
4. Configuring SquirrelMail
5. Base Mailman Configuration
6. Basic Mailing List
7. Private Mailing List