Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration
- Course Code OLAA
- Duration 4 days
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Course Overview
TopOracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration Course Overview
This highly practical instructor led Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the advanced concepts and use of Linux Administration. With a strong emphasis on practical hands on training using the command line,this course will teach advanced System Administration techniques to perform administration of Oracle Linux systems.
Although this Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration course is based on the Oracle Linux distribution,the delegate should be able to apply the concepts covered on this course to other Linux based distributions including,but not limited to Red Hat (RHEL),Fedora,CentOS and Amazon Linux amongst others.
Similarly,the course is targeted to closely follow the official Oracle Linux curriculum for certification.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Course Schedule
TopTarget Audience
TopWho will the Course Benefit?
This Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration course is suitable for Linux System Administrators and DevOps teams to administer,deploy,configure and maintain Oracle Linux and other Red Hat-based Linux distributions.
The course would benefit Administrators who have acquired Unix/Linux System Administration skills to the level covered on the Oracle Linux 9 Administration course.
Course Objectives
TopCourse Objectives
On completion of this Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration course,the delegate will have gained practical experience of the advanced skills required to configure,run and maintain Oracle Linux systems and other Red Hat-based Linux distributions within an enterprise environment.
Course Content
TopOracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: ADVANCED NETWORKING
- Host discovery
- Ethernet bonding
- Channel bonding
- Virtual LANs
- Exercise
Session 2: LINUX AUDITING
- Auditing overview
- Security related log files
- The last and lastb commands
- Understanding Audit records
- Generating Audit queries
- Configuring Auditing and defining rules
- Exercise
Session 3: SYSTEMD UNITS
- Systemd unit overview
- Controlling units
- Creating Service,Timer and Mount units
- Exercise
Session 4: CONFIGURING SUDO
- Sudo overview
- Basic examples
- Command line options
- Sudo aliases,tags and groups
- Sudo password options
- Sudo logging and replay
- Exercise
Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 5: MANAGING AND CONFIGURING SELINUX
- SELinux overview
- Viewing and analysing SELinux denials
- Executing SELinux commands
- Configuring temporary and permanent policy changes
- Managing SELinux contexts,ports and Booleans
- Configuring SELinux users
- Relabelling files on boot
- Creating policy modules
- Exercise
Session 6: FILE SHARING WITH NFS AND SAMBA
- NFS overview
- Configuring an NFS server and client
- Configuring AutoFS - The Automounter
- Samba overview
- Configuring a Samba server and client
- Configuring SELinux for Samba
- Exercise
Session 7: CONFIGURING AN FTP SERVER
- FTP services overview
- Configuring Pure-FTPD and ProFTPD
- Configuring a VSFTPD server
- Configuring SELinux for FTP
- Creating a Socket unit
- Exercise
Session 8: RAID DEVICES
- RAID overview
- Creating a RAID device
- Viewing RAID arrays
- Hot swapping failed drives
- Exercise
Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 9: LOGICAL VOLUMES
- LVM overview
- Creating Physical Volumes,Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
- Creating a striped Logical Volume
- Extending a Volume Group
- Resizing filesystems
- Removing Logical Volumes,Volume Groups and Physical Volumes
- Exercise
Session 10: CONFIGURING FIREWALLD
- Firewalld overview
- Basic firewall-cmd commands
- Managing firewalld services,ports and zones
- Creating firewalld zones and services
- Geolocation blocking with IP Sets
- Configuring Rich Rules
- Installing and configuring fail2ban
- Viewing the fail2ban jail and unbanning IP addresses
- Exercise
Session 11: INTRUSION DETECTION
- Intrusion detection overview
- Installing and configuring AIDE
- Detecting filesystem changes
- Creating a chroot jail
- Exercise
Session 12: PLUGGABLE AUTHENTICATION MODULES
- PAM overview
- PAM configuration files
- Restricting access to SSH
- Enforcing password complexity
- Controlling access by time
- Controlling user limits
- Exercise
Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 4
Session 13: SYSTEM MONITORING AND PERFORMANCE
- Performance monitoring overview
- Monitoring processes and collecting system information
- Measuring virtual memory
- Measuring IO performance
- Exercise
Session 14: KUBERNETES
- Kubernetes overview
- Installing and configuring Kubernetes
- Creating a Kubernetes cluster
- Pod overview
- Creating a basic Pod
- Pod namespaces and lifecycles
APPENDIX A: DISK ENCRYPTION
- Creating LUKS partitions
- Creating the filesystem
- Adding mappings
APPENDIX B: AUDIT RECORDS
- The Audit record fields
APPENDIX C: THE UDEV DEVICE MANAGER
- The Udev subsystem
- Configuring Udev and creating rules
APPENDIX D: NFTABLES
- NFTables Overview
- Converting IPTables rules to NFTables
- Using NFTables
- Displaying NFTables rule sets
- Creating an NFTables chain
Course Prerequisites
TopRequirements
Experience of administering Oracle Linux in an Enterprise environment to the level covered in the Oracle Linux 9 Administration course.
Follow on Courses
TopFurther Learning
- Linux System Security
- Apache Web Server
- Oracle SQL