multi-vendor unix administration

qa ltd.
aberdeen, birmingham, bristol, edinburgh, exeter, glasgow, leeds, london, manchester, slough, united kingdom

Course Format: Classroom | E-learning | Virtual Class | Online | On-site | Blended | Self-paced

Course Description:

'' multi-vendor unix administration course from qa-iq will provide the delegates with transferable skills, and �equally important �will give them appreciation of working in a multi-vendor unix environment. the course concentrates on the common philosophy and approach to administering unix whilst looking at some specific areas of particular systems and variants and pointing out some specific differences with bsd, for example ibm/aix.

the platform used for practical exercises is unixware �the most traditional svr4 version of unix �an ideal ‘common denominator�to base a multi-vendor work on. there is an ssh access provided to at least one other version of unix, for example hp-ux.

throughout the course, numerous vendor comparison tables, illustrations and references are provided.

practical sessions reinforce the theory taught and account for nearly half the course. they invite the user to perform typical administration functions encountered in a real networked unix environment, emphasising system security and problem solution.

prerequisites


delegates must be experienced unix users �the course is aimed at prospective unix systems administrators, network administrators and support staff

delegates should have an existing knowledge of a unix editors, file manipulation, data handling and have familiarity with shell scripting with, ideally, several months practical experience of working in a unix environment

note that existing qa-iq course: “Multi-vendor unix fundamentals�(mvuxfund) provides the correct level of theoretical pre-requisites



delegates will learn how to
at the end of this course, you will be able to:

use responsibly the privileges of unix administrative user, the ‘superuser�
identify system requirements and software installation issues
make effective use of system logs and diagnostic tools
analyse hard disk partitioning/slicing and creating file systems
alter and customise the start-up sequence of a unix system
manage the unix file system, file and directory attributes
add and delete users whilst implementing the security principles and techniques
back up and restore portions of the file system using various tools and methods
set up and administer the unix printing service
set up file sharing among systems using nfs and use common tcp/ip utilities
create automated task scheduling
perform simple system diagnostics


course outline


preamble to unix administration
course introduction
unix system administration issues and goals
unix origins and vendors
working as root
system administration shells
on-line help and resources
os installation and software management
preparing for installation
installation methods and sources
identify software release
manipulating software packages
applying software patches
unix devices
the /dev directory; logical and physical device names
major and minor device numbers and device naming conventions
block and character devices
removable media
disk slicing information
exploring and configuring hardware
files and directories
directory structure: file system concepts, inodes and links
permission bits and access control, including suid, sgid and sticky bit
configuring ‘shared group�directory attributes
introduction to acl (access control list)
processes
processes & daemons
processes interrogation tools (e.g. ps, top)
communicating with processes: signals and traps
postponing tasks with at and batch
long term scheduling with crontab
monitoring and logging
what to monitor & why
monitoring with sar
auditing and logging
basic unix log files
simple touch, tail, tail -f, grep for working with logs
syslog daemon; rotating logs
generic startup and shutdown
bootstrap procedure
single and multi-user run levels
system startup files (rc files)
the init process and the /etc/inittab file
clean shutdown procedure
appendix: bootstrapping in specific versions
filesystems
disk terminology
file system overview: structure and types
making filesystem with mkfs command
mounting disks with mount
maintaining and troubleshooting filesystems
filesystem utilities; fsck, sync, df, du, quotas
storage management
overview of disk partitioning
using fdisk tophysical partitions
lvm structure
creating, formatting and mounting logical volumes
appendix: raid 0, 1, 3 and 5
user accounts
requirements for a user account
main configuration files: /etc/passwd, /etc/group, /etc/shadow
managing user accounts
adding, modifying and deleting users with useradd, usermod and userdel
managing passwords with passwd
secure user considerations
user types and their accounts
the sudo utility
testing account usage and activity: lastlog, last, lastb
additional user security files: securetty, usertty
tcp/ip networking
the tcp/ip protocol suite: protocols and services
basic tcp/ip configuration
ip, netmask and broadcast addresses, hostname
tcp/ip daemons and configuration files: inetd and /etc/inetd.conf
inetd under smf
remote logins: telnet, ftp and ‘r�commands vs. ssh set of tools
dfs
dfs concepts
setting up nfs
mounting and sharing nfs directories
security issues
nfs v2 vs. nfs v4
appendix: sharing with samba
backup and restore
why have backups; backup terminology and media
tape device names
using mt to manipulate tapes
backup utilities: ufsdump, tar, dd, cpio
compression tools
printing
print spooler model
adding printers
enabling and disabling printers
network printing
svr4 vs. bsd features
appendix: introduction to cups
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Elements of this syllabus are subject to change.

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