Linux Administration - training course

An introduction to System Administration for Web Server admins

Duration: 1 day • Price: $640.00 or £410.00 +VAT (with hotel room), or $550.00 or £350.00 +VAT (without room), • Venue: Melksham, England

COURSE START DATES

• Tuesday 10 September 2013	• Tuesday 19 November 2013
• Tuesday 21 January 2014

DESCRIPTION

This course introduces you to the administration of a Linux system that you'll be using as a network server. Topics include user accounts, connecting to the network (including networking fundamentals), starting and stopping services, running regular jobs, installing software and taking backups.

This course is an ideal grounding for you if you're going to be looking after a Linux server on your network. We can't cover everything in a day - web server admins should stay on for our Linux Web Server day, and you may also want to look at further more specialist training if you'll be responsible for email servers, firewalls, looking after naming services, etc. 2183

PREREQUISITES

Knowledge of basic use of Linux (or Solaris, Mac OS X or another flavour of Unix) as taught on our Linux Basics training course.

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SUBJECT BACKGROUND

The Linux operating system is commonly used on Web servers - and many other server too - to provide the background services on that computer. We offer a Linux basics day for staff who are going to be involved in uploading and configuring web applications, a Linux Admin day for staff who are going to take some responsibility for server configuration and maintainance too, and a selection of courses on installation and administration of the web server software. This course covers the administration necessary to look after a web server within an existin network, but does not cover general Linux administration in great depth - please ask us if you need training which includes subject such as name services, network configuration, firewall setup, mail servers, etc.

COURSE CONTENT

Course Summary: [Link]

Users and Groups (module A161) What are users and groups?. The root account. Other accounts. Real and effective id. Adding and managing user accounts. Setting up a user account. Forgotten passwords. Ownership and permissions, files and processes. Control of processes.

Backups and File System Management (module A162) Backup schemes and the need to backup. Dump and restore. Tar. CPIO, dd and other tools. Backup strategies. Mounting file systems and monitoring usage. Symbolic links. Hard links. Finding files. Some more useful commands.

Structure of Networks and Webs (module W601) Internet and Intranets. Why network?. Time-shared computers. The need for someone to manage the data. Distributed computing. Company networks and intranets. An example intranet. The Internet. Home page service. Commercial service. Dedicated server. Virtual Private Networks. Components of the Web. The Client/Server model. Web components. Extra accesses to a server. Extra machines involved. Extra actions of the server. What the browser does. Email components. Originating email. Server programs to receive email. Receiving email at your desk. For the Web Programmer. Other services and their components. IP, TCP, and the Domain Name Service. IP, and the Domain Name Service. TCP.

Network Configuration and Security (module A163) IP addressing and DNS naming. Putting your Linux system on a network. Testing with ping. Using outgoing services. Incoming services. Be aware.

Services and Regular Jobs (module A164) Provision of services via daemons. Controlling the startup and shutdown of Daemons. System shutdown. Run states and init. Automating daemon controls via chkconfig. Regular jobs via crontab.

Installing Software (module A165) Installation via RPM packages. configure, make, cc and others. Installation from tar or tgz files.

Linux Server Admin - Exercise (module A171) Integrating various admin tasks.

TUTOR and COURSE AUTHOR

Graham Ellis - graham@wellho.net [email] [about Graham]

VENUE

Melksham, Wiltshire , England. A taxi transfer can be arranged if you'll be arriving by air from United States. Private Courses can be arranged on site in your country.
Public courses run at Well House Manor - our own purpose fitted training centre and business hotel / conference centre in Melksham.
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PRICE

1 student	2 students	3 students	For 4 or more students from the same company, please consider a private course.
With hotel room $640.00 ($768.00 inc VAT) or £410.00 (£492.00 inc VAT) Without room $550.00 ($660.00 inc VAT) or £350.00 (£420.00 inc VAT)	With hotel rooms $1180.00 ($1416.00 inc VAT) or £720.00 (£864.00 inc VAT) Without rooms $1000.00 ($1200.00 inc VAT) or £600.00 (£720.00 inc VAT)	With hotel rooms $1720.00 ($2064.00 inc VAT) or £1030.00 (£1236.00 inc VAT) Without rooms $1450.00 ($1740.00 inc VAT) or £850.00 (£1020.00 inc VAT)
Notes: • Multiple discount applies to bookings for second and subsequent delegates on the same running of a course, and on same order. • Hotel rooms are available for arrival the night before the course starts, for departure after the end of the course on the last day.

FOLLOW UPS

Web Server specific topics (such as Apache httpd configuration) are covered on our Linux Web Server course which follow on from this day.

Upon completion of your course, you'll have online access to the source code of all the examples from the course, and you'll have access to the "Ask the Tutor" forum where you can raise questions. We also encourage you to email the tutor, and to visit us again to use our library as appropriate.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

Public (scheduled) courses -- http://www.wellho.net/course/ctc.html
For more information about our public courses in general, such as class size, course times, materials provided, special requests, accommodation list, finding our centre, etc.
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Covering topics such as delegate substitution, payment, cancellation policy and other matters.

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