System Administration (SYSADM)
Synopsis
This is a technical workshop, made of up lecture and hands-on lab work to teach Linux System Administration targeted at operators who are responsible for Linux systems and services in their organization.
Workshop Topics
- Introduction to UNIX
- UNIX permissions
- UNIX commands & the CLI
- UNIX system administration
- IPv4/v6 networking essentials
- DNS Fundamentals
- DNS and Email
- Security essentials
- Crypto: SSH
- Apache with SSL
- Webmail
- Backup and data integrity
- Configuration management and version control
- Scripting and Regex (Regular Expressions)
- Scripting and Regex
- Firewalls
- Virtualisation overview
Target Audience
- Linux systems administrators and engineers from ISP/REN/Universities or corporations, who are responsible for Linux system administration.
Prerequisites
- Medium to good knowledge of the UNIX/Linux command line environment
- Basic knowledge of TCP/IP networking
- PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUIRED TO BRING A LAPTOP
Objectives
At the end of the workshop, students will be able to:
- Explain the core concepts of the UNIX operating system
- Explain the concepts of and demonstrate how to use UNIX permissions
- Use the UNIX CLI to issue commands to the operating system
- Perform UNIX system administration tasks
- Perform IPv4/v6 networking tasks to ensure that the system has functioning networking
- Perform fundamental DNS configuration tasks
- Configure an email server and perform basic administration tasks
- Explain core concepts of security as it related to Linux servers
- Deploy and configure the Secure Shell (SSH) daemon
- Deploy and configure the Apache webserver with SSL
- Deploy and configure a Webmail server
- Explain concepts of and configure systems to perform backup and data integrity tasks
- Explain concepts of and configure systems to perform configuration management and version control tasks
- Perform basic Linux scription tasks and make use of regular expressions
- Perform basic Firewalling tasks on Linux Systems
- Explain basic Virtualisation concepts