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 Administration in their organization.
Target Audience
Linux systems administrators and engineers from ISP/REN/Universities or corporations, who are responsible for Linux system administration.
Pre-Requisites
Medium to good knowledge of the UNIX/Linux command line environment
Basic knowledge of TCP/IP networking
PARTICIPANTS ARE REQUIRED TO BRING A LAPTOP
Workshop Topics
Introduction to UNIX
UNIX permissions
UNIX commands & the CLI
UNIX sysadmin
IPv4/v6 networking essentials
DNS Fundamentals
DNS and Email
Security essentials
Crypto: SSH
Apache with SSL
Webmail
Backup and data integrity
Conf mgmt & version control
Scripting and Regex
Scripting and Regex
Firewalls
Virtualization overview
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 demonstate 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 workingable networking
Perfown fundimental 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 confuration management and version control tasks
Perform basic Linux scription tasks and make use of regular expressions