UNIX System Administration Self-Study Course

UNIX System Administration will demonstrate the core administrative functions of managing users, data, and software on UNIX systems as well as describe the maintenance and optimization of UNIX systems and UNIX networking.
Audience
Course Topics UNIX User and Data Management

• Connect the role of the systems administrator with the responsibilities of super user privileges
• Determine the method for adding and configuring a user account
• Recognize the strategies used to track user activity and control access to resources in a given scenario
• Create and configure a user account in a given scenario
• Choose the RAID system to implement in a given scenario
• Design a RAID implementation

Deploying and Initializing UNIX Systems

• Deploy and administer UNIX software
• Install and remove software packages
• Compile software from source in a given scenario
• Install the Apache web server from source code to specification
• Compare the different boot mechanisms for UNIX operating systems
• Modify startup scripts in a given scenario
• Choose the appropriate procedure for shutting down the system
• Configure run levels and shutdown

Securing UNIX Systems

• Describe how UNIX file attributes relate to file ownership and access rights
• Recognize how to protect the security of entire UNIX file systems
• Set security parameters in Unix kernels and prevent cron and unwanted shutdown security issues
• Change file permissions and implement permission-based system security in UNIX
• Recognize how to benchmark operating systems, including UNIX, and evaluate the security of their configurations
• Describe the UNIX password system
• Recognize how to restrict boot-level and root access to UNIX systems
• Recognize how to integrate Kerberos authentication on UNIX systems

Managing UNIX Software and System Services

• Recognize how to apply software updates and patches to UNIX systems
• Describe security issues and boot services in UNIX
• Describe how to limit services launched by inetd and xinetd
• Identify services to be started or disabled, and configure inetd and xinetd to add or remove such services

Networking and UNIX Name Resolution

• Implement core network configuration issues in UNIX
• Identify how networking daemons are managed and configure the inetd super daemon
• Configure TCP/IP networking in FreeBSD
• Identify how addresses can be managed on a local network with DHCP and how name resolution services operate
• Configure DHCP servers and clients
• Prepare BIND to support DNS operations
• Perform an LDAP search
• Manage and configure naming services on a UNIX system

Managing UNIX Clients

• Identify the hardware and software requirements for UNIX clients
• Configure X for UNIX clients
• Identify the steps in setting up a diskless UNIX client
• Recognize the principal features of WINE
• Set up and manage UNIX clients

Administering UNIX Network Services

• Perform key web service configurations with the Apache web server
• Identify the components of an email system and perform basic configuration of the Postfix mail service
• Implement and manage NFS file shares
• Configure file sharing and security with Samba
• Manage and configure UNIX network services
• Set up and administer printers on UNIX
• Identify the features of the Common UNIX Printing System
• Configure the ftpd daemon, and configure and implement ssh with UNIX

UNIX Systems Management

• Recognize the methods of performance optimization
• Monitor and control UNIX processes in a given scenario
• Troubleshoot system performance
• Recognize how to interpret log files and configure logging
• Identify, prioritize, and safely terminate jobs
• Identify backup strategies and best practices for implementing backups
• Detail the backup utilities available in UNIX
• Identify the commands used to back up data in UNIX and recognize how to perform backups

Course Objectives

• To outline UNIX performance monitoring and disaster recovery strategies and techniques in UNIX
• To demonstrate the core administrative functions of managing users, data, and software on UNIX systems
• To describe the maintenance and optimization of UNIX systems
• To describe how to implement and maintain UNIX networking
• To introduce UNIX software and system services management
• To explain how to secure UNIX systems from local and remote security threats
• To explain how to manage UNIX clients
• To introduce the administrations of UNIX network services