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  Enterprise Linux 5 for Experienced Unix Administrators

Course Duration

5 days

Course Overview

Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is finding its way into business, education and government. Due to its outstanding reliability, performance and low cost, RHEL is being used extensively for file, database and web server applications.  

The Enterprise Linux for Experienced Unix Administrators course is aimed at delegates who have at least 1 years experienced of administering another Unix flavour, e.g Solaris, HP-UX, AIX etc. The course builds on the delegates current Unix experience and introduces the differences between Unix systems and Enterprise Linux. Topics include creating a local area network; setting up a Network File System server and clients; Network Information Services and DNS. Delegates will also be introduced to Samba to enable Windows based systems access to Linux services; and Apache for web server applications.

Who should attend

It is a prerequisite that delegates have at least 1 year experience of administering a Unix system. The course starts at a very high level and concentrates on the differences between Unix and Enterprise Linux administration. RHEL5, Fedora^TM or CentOS^TM 5 systems.

Course Objectives

   Introduction to Enterprise Linux systems

   Planning the Installation of Enterprise Linux systems

   Installing an Enterprise Linux Server

   Setting up and using automated installation with Kickstart

   Package administration

   Boot, init and shutdown procedures

   Configuring Linux RAID devices

   Introduction to Logical Volume Management

   Understand the kernel and how it is recompiled

   Setting up network client services

   Sharing files with NFS

   Sharing Windows and Linux resources with Samba

   Setting up a proxy server with Squid

   Setting up Network Information Services (NIS)

   Configuring DHCP servers & clients

   Setting up Domain Name Service (DNS) & BIND

   Using Apache to provide web services.

   Setting up E-Mail services

   Setting up telnet and FTP Services

   Operational recovery & security

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