Linux Administration

This course will cover all aspects of Linux Certification. The course will also cover Internet application server configuration on live registered domain name with valid public IP addresses. The training will be given by Senior System / Network engineers with several years of industry experience.

Linux Course Contents

  • Introduction to Unix, Installation of Linux
  • User, Group Administration, ACL
  • Disk Partitions, by using Fdisk
  • Mounting File Systems, Swap File System
  • Backup and recovery
  • Basics of NFS, Sharing data
  • Disk Quotas, LVM, Raid
  • DHCP, DNS, Mail, Web, FTP, YUM.

Course Curriculum

Introduction to UNIX & LINUX

  • History of UNIX and LINUX
  • Basic concepts of Operating System, Kernel, Shell & File System structure
  • Basic concepts of Linux
  • Differences between CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Fedora
  • Basic commands of Linux
  • Advanced Linux Commands

DNS Server

  • Configuration of DNS server
  • Configuration of primary DNS server
  • Configuration of forward lookup zone
  • Configuration of reverse lookup zone
  • Testing tool of DNS zones
  • Adding services in DNS

Installation of Linux

  • Inter active Installation
  • Network Based Installation

Mail Server (SMTP, POP3, IMAP)

  • Basics of Mail Servers
  • Configuring SMTP service using Postfix
  • Configuring POP3 / IMAP service on Linux

Introduction to Graphical Environment

  • Use and customize the GNOME interface
  • Perform command tasks using the GNOME GUI
  • Launch applications from command line & GNOME interface
  • Customize X Window System

Web Server (Apache)

  • Basics of Web Service
  • Introduction to Apache
  • Configuring Apache for main site
  • Configuring Apache for multiple sites using IP-based, port-based and name-based virtual hosting

Software Package Administration

  • Installing and deleting software packages

FTP Server (vsftp daemon)

  • Basics of File Transfer Protocol
  • Configuring vsftpd for anonymous ftp service

User and Group Administration

  • Creating and deleting users from the systems
  • Modifying users profile
  • Creating and deleting groups
  • Important system files related to user administration

RAID (Redundant Array of InExpensive Disks) & Logical Volume Manager

  • Implementing RAIDon Linux
  • RAID levels (0, 1 and 5) configuration using RAID tools
  • Resizing the Partition using LVM

Advanced File Permissions

  • Assigning advanced files permissions i.e. chmod, chown, chgrp & Sticky bit
  • Creating, modifying and deleting ACL’s

Web based Administration

  • Installing Webmin on Linux
  • Administrating Linux machine remotely
  • Using Webmin as a tool for configuring various services on Linux

Disk Partitioning and Mounting File System

  • Using fdisk, disk druid utilities for disk partitioning
  • Using mkfs, commands to create file systems
  • Mounting various file systems
  • Auto mounting of file system

Disk Quotas

  • Enabling Quotas on partitions
  • Creating Quotas for users
  • Auditing Quotas limit

Designing, Implementing & Maintaining of Corporate Network

Backup and Recovery

  • Introduction to various types of backup media
  • Backup and restoring using tar and cpio commands

NFS

  • Configuring NFS server
  • Mounting NFS exports on NFS clients

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

  • Configuring Linux as DHCP Server
  • Configuring various clients for DHCP Server (Windows & Linux)