UNIX System Administration

UNIX System Administration

5 Days course

Language: English

This course is only available on request!!

DESCRIPTION This course provides the participants with the necessary tools to insure the well being of a UNIX system. Lab sessions include the installation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of a UNIX system.	WHAT YOU WILL LEARN Install the UNIX system Initialize and shutdown the system Use the automated system administration tool (SMIT, SAM, SYSADM) to: Add and delete Add devices Partition the disk Use the administrator files and commands in the /etc directory Check file system integrity Provide user guidance Backup and restore all or parts of the system Monitor system performance
WHO SHOULD ATTEND: The course is intended for those who will be responsible for the operation and management of a UNIX system.	ASSUMED KNOWLEDGE Participants are expected to have completed the UNIX Introduction Course or have had equivalent experience.

OUTLINES

CHAPTER 1: WHERE TO START
1) History
2) Contemporary UNIX products
3) Getting help
4) Duties of the System Administrator

CHAPTER 2: BOOTING AND SHUTTING DOWN
1) Bootstrapping
2) Startup scripts
3) Problems with booting
4) Rebooting and shutting down

CHAPTER 3: THE ROOT USER
1) Ownership
2) Files
3) Processes
4) Superuser
5) Becoming the root user
6) Special accounts

CHAPTER 4: THE FILE SYSTEM
1) File system organization
2) Types of files
3) Special Files
4) File permissions
5) setupid, setgid
6) sticky bit
7) Inodes
8) File System Commands

CHAPTER 5: UNIX PROCESSES
1) Multi-process multi-user operating
2) UNIX process components
3) UNIX process creating
4) Monitoring processes
5) Controlling processes

CHAPTER 6: ADDING AND REMOVING USERS
1) Adding a user
2) Automating tools
3) The shadow password file
4) Startup files
5) Password Aging
6) Removing users

CHAPTER 7: ADDING A DISK
1) Peripheral bus tandards
2) Disk drive geometry
3) Installing a disk
4) Devices and drivers
5) Device files
6) Mounting file systems
7) File system check and repair

CHAPTER 8: AUTOMATIC COMMAND EXECUTION
1) crontab - schedule commands at repeated int.
2) at - schedule one command for later execution

CHAPTER 9: BACKUPS
1) Backup devices and media
2) Incremental backups
3) dump & ufsdump
4) restore
5) tar
6) cpio

CHAPTER 10: NETWORK BASICS
1) Terminology
2) Topology
3) Transmission media
4) Access methods
5) Hardware
6) Standards & Protocols
7) Packets
8) ISO/OSI Model
9) TCP/IP Model

CHAPTER 11: NETWORK CONFIGURATION
1) Internet Protocol (IP) addresses
2) Address Translation
3) Setting up a network
4) Troubleshooting

CHAPTER 12: UNIX NETWORK APPLICATIONS
1) The Internet daemon - inetd
2) ftp - File transfer
3) telnet - Remote login
4) The r* commands (Berkeley Services)
5) Trusted Hosts
6) sendmail
7) The UNIX File System
8) NFS - The Network File System
9) /etc/exports
10) NIS - Network Information Service
11) uucp

CHAPTER 13: PRINTING
1) Simple printing
2) Spooling
3) /etc/printcap
4) Key elements of BSD printing
5) Key elements of AT&T printing
6) Comparing BSD vs AT&T

CHAPTER 14: DISK SPACE MANAGEMENT
1) Introduction
2) Data compression
3) tunefs
4) Disk quotas
5) Log files

CHAPTER 15: CONFIGURING THE KERNEL
1) Introduction
2) Why reconfigure the kernel?
3) Generic kernels
4) Building a BSD Kernel
5) A configuration file

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