Concepts
- Tasks and rôles.
- Method.
- Audit.
- System Administration Tools.
- Real and virtual machines.
Hands-on work
Overview of admin tools.
Installing the system and packages
- Installing a system.
- Managing rpm packages.
- Updating machines.
- Troubleshooting.
Hands-on work
Installing the system and a rpm package.
Volume Management
- Disks.
- File systems.
- Partitioning, RAID.
- Monitoring and availability.
Hands-on work
Formating, disk partitioning, using logical volumes and creating a file system.
Backup and Restore Data
- Concepts.
- Planning backups.
- Full, differential and incremental backups.
- Restore
Hands-on work
Configuring backups, planning the restore.
Network Configuration
- Network concepts.
- Protocols : SMTP, POP3, HTTP, DNS, DHCP, …
- Managing servers.
- Maintenance : ping, traceroute.
Hands-on work
Configuring the network, setting up samba, DHCP, DNS.
Monitoring your system with Nagios
- Monitoring your system.
- Setting up Nagios.
- Customizing Nagios.
Hands-on work
Installing Nagios, managing an incident.
Writing scripts in bash and zsh
- Review of shell basics.
- Command line.
- Creating a shell script.
- Specific shell features.
- Text file processing
- Using sed and awk.
- Making reports.
Hands-on work
Managing scripts, reports, troubleshooting. Log rotation.
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