Linux System Administration (LPI)

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Linux System Administration (LPI) Course Overview

This highly practical instructor led Linux System Administration (LPI) training course is designed to teach the key administration, security and performance administration 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 Advanced System Administration course will enable the delegate to work towards achieving the LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 qualifications.

The delegate must have basic LINUX knowledge to the level covered on our LINUX Essentials course.

Skills Gained

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

  • Performing administrative tasks with supplied tools such as YaST
  • Installing and updating LINUX
  • Listing device information
  • Managing user and group account information
  • Managing the LINUX file systems
  • Managing the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
  • Managing software RAID
  • Listing, creating and removing swap space
  • Managing software packages
  • System startup/shutdown management
  • Managing system services
  • Configuring local and remote printers
  • Process monitoring and job scheduling
  • Connecting the server to the network
  • Managing basic network services (ftp, telnet, ssh etc.)
  • Managing NFS to share files and directories
  • Performing local and remote backup and restore procedures
  • Troubleshooting and responding to boot problems

Who will the Course Benefit?

The Linux System Administration (LPI) course is suitable for novice LINUX System Administrators who need to acquire knowledge of the key administrative, networking and security tasks required on LINUX within the Enterprise.

Course Objectives

On completion of this course the delegate will have 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. The delegate will posses the essential knowledge required to study towards achieving the LPI certifications certification qualification.  Topics covered are generic to most Linux systems.

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 Advanced 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

Basic knowledge of the LINUX operating system in an Enterprise environment to the level covered in the LINUX Essentials course.

Linux 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: LINUX PRODUCT OFFERINGS

  • The different commercial LINUX product offerings
  • LINUX certification and exams

Session 2: INSTALLING LINUX

  • Information required
  • Installation using virtual consoles
  • Installation methods (local CD and networked)
  • Installing via a remote system using VNC
  • Using boot time options
  • Partitioning and software selection
  • Installation procedures
  • Exercise

Session 3: DEVICES UNDER LINUX

  • Device files
  • Device file naming conventions
  • Examining hardware under the /proc directory
  • Using the hwinfo command
  • Investigating bus/devices: - lspci, lsdev, lsusb commands etc.
  • Detecting new/existing devices
  • Monitoring the system with siga
  • Exercise

Session 4: USER ADMINISTRATION

  • Files used in creating users and groups
  • Adding, modifying and deleting users and groups
  • Password administration
  • The shells and the user environment - login files
  • The sudo command
  • Exercise

Linux System Administration (LPI) Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 5: FILESYSTEM CONFIGURATION

  • The Native Linux filesystems ext2, ext3 and resierfs
  • Filesystem journals
  • Disk partitioning: fdisk and parted
  • Filesystem administration and Maintenance (mkfs, mount, umount and fsck)
  • Managing disk quotas
  • Exercise

Session 6: LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT (LVM)

  • LVM Overview
  • Configuring LVM (pvcreate, vgcreate, vgextend, lvcreate etc.)
  • Displaying information about the LVM environment (pvdisplay, vgdisplay, lvdisplay)
  • Resizing Logical Volumes (lvextend, resize2fs, resize_reiserfs)
  • Logical Volume Snapshots (lvcreate, lvdisplay)
  • Exercise

Session 7: RAID

  • RAID overview
  • Raw devices and partitions
  • Creating a RAID device (fdisk, mdadm)
  • Managing a RAID device (mdadm, /proc/mdstat)
  • Creating and mount a file system on a RAID device
  • Hot swapping failed drives
  • Exercise

Session 8: SWAP

  • Swap overview
  • Creating and monitoring swap space (swapon, swapoff and mkswap)
  • Exercise

Linux System Administration (LPI) Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 9: PACKAGE MANAGEMENT

  • The Redhat Package Management (RPM) system
  • Installing, updating and removing software
  • Querying and verifying packages
  • Dependency problems and resolution
  • System updating - manual and automatic
  • Exercise

Session 10: SYSTEM STARTUP/SHUTDOWN

  • System startup procedure
  • The boot process and run-levels (init and /etc/inittab)
  • Managing services (chkconfig and rc commands)
  • Modifying system settings in /etc/sysconfig
  • Shutdown commands
  • Exercise

Session 11: PRINTER MANAGEMENT

  • The CUPS printing System - local and remote printing
  • Administering CUPS using the web browser interface
  • Administering CUPS using other graphical tools
  • Print queue management
  • Print commands
  • Exercise

Linux System Administration (LPI) Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 12: PROCESS MONITORING AND SCHEDULING

  • Monitoring system processes (strace, top, pstree and ksysguard)
  • Scheduling jobs using 'at' and 'crontab'
  • Controlling access to the 'at' and 'crontab' utilities
  • Exercise

Session 13: CONNECTING LINUX TO THE NETWORK

  • Basic network configuration (i.p. addresses, classes, masks, MAC address)
  • Configuration files
  • Managing network devices (ifup, ifdown, ifstatus)
  • Configuring network information (hostnames, i.p addressing, domains)
  • Changing media speed (mii-tool, ethtool)
  • Managing routing
  • Exercise

Session 14: INTERNET SERVICES

  • The extended internet daemon (xinetd)
  • Handling network service requests with xinetd
  • Enable and configuring access to a service
  • Configuring TCP/IP wrappers for security
  • Configuring the network time protocol daemon for a client
  • Exercise

Linux System Administration (LPI) Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 5

Session 15: NFS NETWORK SERVICES

  • NFS operation and daemons (portmapper etc.)
  • Setting up an NFS server (/etc/exports and exportfs)
  • Setting up an NFS client (mount)
  • Mounting NFS filesystems at boot (/etc/fstab)
  • Using the automounter to access NFS mounts on demand
  • Exercise

Session 16: BACKUP AND RESTORE

  • Tape devices
  • Controlling tapes (mt)
  • Backing and restoring with the tar command
  • Backing and restoring with the cpio command
  • Using dump and restore commands to backup and restore file systems
  • Backing up raw data with dd
  • File compression and archiving (tar, gzip, bzip2)
  • Mirroring data between systems with rsync
  • Backing up and restoring with yast
  • Exercise

Session 17: TROUBLESHOOTING

  • Troubleshooting process - check list
  • Manual booting into single user mode
  • Automatic booting into single user mode (fsck checking)
  • Rescue environment utilities and operation
  • Common boot problems and their resolution
  • Exercise

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