Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI)

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Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) Course Overview

This highly practical instructor led Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) training course is designed to teach the advanced administration, including network, security and performance of a Linux Enterprise system. Targeted to closely follow the official LPI curriculum (generic Linux), this course together with the Linux Essentials and the Linux System Administration course will enable the delegate to work towards achieving the LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 certification qualifications.

This course assumes a good knowledge of the Linux operating system to the level covered on the Linux System Administration course.

Skills Gained

The delegate will have knowledge in all, and practise in some, of the following:

  • Perform administrative tasks with supplied tools such as YAST
  • Setting up a network installation server
  • Advanced network configuration
  • Network troubleshooting
  • Configuring network services LDAP, APACHE, SAMBA, SQUID and DNS
  • Securing a Linux server using ACLs and extended file attributes
  • Managing security using encryption and authentication
  • Firewall configuration
  • Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
  • Kernel installation and compilation
  • Compiling software from source
  • System logging via syslog
  • System performance monitoring
  • Collecting process and user activity with system accounting
  • Hardware configuration with hotplug and udev
  • XEN

Who will the Course Benefit?

The Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) course is suitable for Linux System Administrators who need to acquire advanced administration knowledge of the key administrative, networking and security tasks required on Linux within the Enterprise. Topics covered are generic to most Linux systems.

Course Objectives

On completion of this course the delegate will have in-depth technical knowledge of what is required to administer Linux within the Enterprise.  They will have gained practical experience of configuring administrative, networking and security aspects of a Linux Enterprise system to an advanced level.  The delegate will posses the essential knowledge required to study towards achieving the LPI certifications.

Examinations

This course will teach some of the necessary skills to enable the delegate to work towards achieving the LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 certifications.  Together with the Linux Essentials and the Linux System Administration course, this course is suitable for delegates intending to sit the LPI 101,LPI 102, LPI 201 and LPI 202 examinations.

To gain the necessary skills for the certification topic 'SQL Data Management', the delegate should attend our Introduction to MySQL course.

Before taking any exam, ensure you have the recommended experience.  The LINUX website lists all exam requirements and these are updated regularly.

Exams are not included as part of the course.

Requirements

Experience of administering Linux in an Enterprise environment to the level covered in the Linux System Administration course.

Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: NETWORK INSTALLATION OF LINUX

  • Configuring a Linux installation server
  • Creating a PXE boot environment
  • Automatic installation
  • Exercise

Session 2: ADVANCED NETWORK CONFIGURATION & TROUBLESHOOTINGh

  • Configuring the network card (ip link, ip addr)
  • Network scripts
  • Configuring routing (ip route)
  • Serial communication
  • Network troubleshooting and related tools (ethereal, tcpdump, ping, traceroute, netstat, arp, nmap, nc)
  • Exercise

Session 3: LDAP

  • Structure of an LDAP Tree
  • Configuring the LDAP server (slapd.conf)
  • Testing the LDAP server (ldapsearch)
  • Adding information into LDAP (lpdapadd)
  • Configuring the LDAP Clients (nsswitch.conf, ldap.conf)
  • Exercise

Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 4: APACHE & SQUID

  • APACHE main configuration files
  • APACHE server configuration (main Section entries)
  • Starting APACHE
  • APACHE access configuration
  • SQUID proxy server
  • Configuring client browsers
  • Starting SQUID
  • The SQUID configuration file (squid.conf)
  • SQUID security settings
  • Exercise

Session 5: SAMBA

  • The SAMBA configuration file (smb.conf)
  • Testing the SAMBA configuration file (testparm)
  • Configuring SAMBA users
  • Starting SAMBA
  • Testing SAMBA (smbclient, smbstatus)
  • Managing Windows filesystems (smbmount, nmblookup)
  • Accessing Windows shares
  • Exercise

Session 6: THE DOMAIN NAME SERVER

  • DNS operation
  • Types of DNS Servers
  • Domain Name Space
  • Setting up a DNS server
  • Server configuration files (named.conf and databases)
  • DNS resource record formats
  • Starting and managing the DNS Server (rcnamed, rndc)
  • Testing the DNS Server (host, dig, nslookup)
  • DNS Client set up (resolv.conf)
  • Exercise

Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 7: SECURING LINUX

  • System security checklist
  • User level security
  • Limiting access to terminals
  • Limiting access to files via ACLs (setfacl, getfacl)
  • Limiting access to files by extended permissions and attributes (lsattr, chattr)
  • System wide security settings and file access (chkstat)
  • The Secure Shell
  • Authentication under ssh
  • ssh and port tunneling
  • gpg
  • Use of public and private keys
  • gpg command line and graphical tools
  • Key managmement
  • Using a digital signature
  • Exercise

Session 8: FIREWALL CONFIGURATION

  • Basic packets and routing
  • Netfilter (iptables)
  • Packet filtering (iptables, chains, rule targets, connection tracking)
  • Network address translation (NAT)
  • Exercise

Session 9: PLUGGABLE AUTHENTICATION MODULES (PAM)

  • The main PAM configuration files (/etc/pam.d directory)
  • Configuration file formats
  • Controlling user access using the configuration files
  • Exercise

Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 10: KERNEL COMPILATION AND INSTALLATION

  • Kernel building
  • Monolithic and Modular kernel design
  • Listing modules (lsmod, modinfo)
  • Modifying the kernel configuration
  • Binary kernel packages
  • Installing the kernel sources
  • Configuring and building a kernel
  • Editing the GRUB/LILO configuration file
  • Kernel tuning (/proc sysctl.conf, sysctl)
  • Exercise

Session 11: COMPILING SOFTWARE FROM SOURCE

  • Installing programs from source (tar, tarball)
  • Compiling Open Source Software (configure, make)
  • Installing the compiled software (make install)
  • Managing shared libraries (ldd)
  • Compiling from SRC (source) RPM packages (rpmbuild, rpm)
  • Exercise

Session 12: SYSTEM MONITORING & PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

  • Syslog configuration (syslog.conf)
  • Testing syslog with logger
  • Managing logs with logrotate (logrotate.d directory)
  • System performance monitoring
  • Collecting system performance information (sar)
  • Measuring virtual memory (vmstat)
  • Measuring I/O performance (iostat)
  • Performance Guidelines
  • System Accounting - collecting process and user information (rcacct, ac, lastcomm, sa)
  • Exercise

Linux Advanced System Administration (LPI) Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 5

Session 13: HARDWARE CONFIGURATION

  • The Hotplug system
  • Devices and Interfaces.
  • The sysfs filesystem and persistent names
  • Device initialisation and interface configuration
  • Hotplug and Coldplug
  • The Udev system
  • Exercise

Session 14: XEN

  • Basic definition
  • XEN components
  • The Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM)
  • Virtualization Modes (Fully Virtual, Paravirtual)
  • System requirements
  • Installing XEN
  • Creating a Virtual Machine
  • Managing the VM environment (Yast and xm)
  • Exercise

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