Advanced Linux Administration Program -on 26th May 2013

Day 1-Introduction to GNU/Linux

• Introduction to Linux, Unix and FOSS

• Architecture of a Linux system

• Installing a Linux distribution: CentOS

• Working in Bash shell

• Linux file system hierarchy

• Common Unix/Linux commands – Part 1

• FOSS culture and etiquette

Day 2- GNU/Linux environment-I

• Linux security model and privileges

• Process management

• Common Unix/Linux commands – Part 2

• Vim advanced editor

Day 3- GNU/Linux environment-II

• Linux boot process and system initialization

• Managing services

• Managing users and groups

• Working with remote systems

Day 4- TCP/IP networking

• TCP/IP networking with Linux

• Managing File Systems

• Firewall configuration

• Vim and Bash – Part 2

• Advanced Shell scripting with Bash

Day 5-Raid,LVM and Package Management

• Package management in Linux

• Troubleshooting

• RAID and LVM

Day 6-Virtualization,Apache,NSF and other Services

• Virtualization in Linux

• Apache Web server - architecture, installation and configuration

• Other services: SSH, SFTP, NTP

• NFS File server - installation and configuration

Day 7-Proxy,DNS,SAMBA,Email and Spam Filtering

• Squid Caching HTTP proxy server - installation and configuration

• BIND DNS server - installation and configuration

• Samba server - installation and configuration

• Postfix Mail server - installation and configuration

• Spam Filtering and Antivirus

Day 8-DevOps,Configuration Management and Linux Kernel

• Introduction to DevOps culture

• Introduction to Configuration Management with Puppet

• Introduction to Linux kernel

• Configuring and compiling the kernel

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