Linux System Administration

New - Learn how to install, configure, and maintain a Linux system in a networked environment.

This lab-intensive course explores core administrative tasks such as creating and managing users, creating and maintaining file systems, determining and implementing security measures, and performing software installation and package management.

Linux networking topics include installing and supporting SSH, NFS, Samba, and an Apache Web server. You’ll learn common security issues and tools such as the PAM modules that will help you secure your operating system and network environment.

This course focuses on installing and configuring an Ubuntu Linux system, and topics taught apply to other open-source Linux server distributions. Labs include user and group maintenance, system backups and restoration, software management, administration tasks automation, file system creation and maintenance, managing remote access, working with cron, configuring file sharing and Web services, and working with system logging utilities like rsyslog.

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Who Should Attend?

Systems Administrators

What You'll Learn

Join an engaging hands-on learning environment, where you’ll learn to:

Install the Linux operating system and configure peripherals
Perform and modify startup and shutdown processes
Configure and maintain essential networking services
Create and maintain system users and groups
Understand and administer file permissions on directories and regular files
Plan and create disk partitions and file systems
Perform maintenance on file systems
Identify and manage Linux processes
Automate tasks with cron
Perform backups and restoration of files
Work with system log files
Troubleshoot system problems
Analyze and take measures to increase system performance
Configure file sharing with NFS
Configure Samba for file sharing with the Windows clients
Setting up a basic Web server
Understand the components for setting up a LAMP server
Implement basic security measures

This course has a 50% hands-on labs to 50% lecture ratio with engaging instruction, demos, group discussions, labs, and project work.

Prerequisites

Before attending this course, you should have:

Experience with common UNIX/Linux user-level commands, such as moving, copying and editing files
Experience with the vi editor

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