Course Title
LINUX Systems, SysAdmin & Management Tools, IP Fundamentals
Core Topics
- UNIX Systems Administration Essentials
- System Maintenance and Upgrades
- IP & DNS Fundamentals for Sysadmins
- Basic Mail Service (SMTP & Server)
- System Security
- Data Integrity & Backups
- Log Management & Network Management Essentials
- Virtualization
Goals
Give participants a broad overview of systems administration best
practices, with an eye towards network management and system
security.
Dates
- Track 2: Tuesday, 22nd - 26th November
Expectations & Pre-requisites
Participants are expected to have a basic understanding of Linux/UNIX
and the command line, including editing files using a text editor, and how
to navigate the tree-based UNIX filesystem hierarchy.
Participants MUST bring a laptop with wireless capability or wired
ethernet, and an operating system capable of running an SSH client and a web
browser.
Instructors
Detailed Outline
The detailed Workshop contents page is here.
* System administration essentials
- Introduction to sysadmin
- IPv4/IPv6 networking basics (layers, addressing/subnetting,
routing)
* System & security upgrades
- keeping the system up-to-date (security and package updates)
* Setting up an MTA: Postfix
- Why every system needs a functioning MTA setup (reporting,
etc...
* Security essentials
- system lockdown
- turning off unused services
- using netstat/lsof/sockstat
- detecting changes
- process accounting
- crypto basics, SSH
* Log management & centralization
- syslog, syslog-ng, swatch
* Backup
- Bacula/BoxBackup/rdiff-backup/rsync
* Network management monitoring: Cacti, Nagios, Smokeping
* Virtualization essentials
- Different kinds of virtualization (para, os, hw)
- What does it mean for a sysadmin ?
- KVM+QEMU, VirtualBox
* Configuration management
- Introduction to Version Control - SVN
- A simple solution to keeping track of config files
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