Description

This course will allow you to administer and best operate a client-server site using a Unix environment from major market players (Solaris, HP/UX, Linux). It proposes to implement the main information sharing and centralized administration services currently available.

Who is this training for ?

Unix administrators and operators.

Training objectives

Training program

• Introduction
  • Daily administration tasks.
  • Which forums for which versions of Unix? Make good use of the online help.
• Main phases of operation of a site
  • Installation: installation types.
  • Upgrade.
  • How to troubleshoot installation problems.
  • User Support .
  • Disk management: partitioning, introduction to RAID levels.
  • File systems (UFS, Ext3, JFS, etc.
  • ).
  • Mounts: commands and files.
  • Shutdown and restart: why and how to properly shut down a server? Startup, shutdown scripts, run levels.
  • Management of users: commands for declaring accounts.
  • Confidentiality in a Unix environment.
  • Daily tools for the administrator: launching jobs.
  • La crontab, at.
  • The multi-platform unifying tool Webmin.
  • Examples of use of proprietary graphics tools SMC (Solaris), SAM (HP/UX), linuxconf ( Linux).
  • Practical work Install, partition and manage disks, users.
• Hardware and software management
  • Installation of new software.
  • Package management commands.
  • Disks, CD-ROMs, backup interfaces.
  • Declaration terminals and printers.
  • Network cards.
  • Practical work Package management.
• TCP/IP network and services
  • Dialogue on a TCP/IP network.
  • The inetd daemon, configuration files.
  • Traffic analysis utilities (snoop, iptrace, tcpdump ).
  • Security on the network: the files implemented.
  • Presentation of DHCP.
  • Managing a lease.
  • Practical work Configure the network, services, security.
• Name and address resolution services
  • Importance of name services.
  • Introduction to DNS, LDAP, NIS.
  • NIS commands and daemons (yp*).
  • Presentation of the NIS.
  • NIS domain, NIS bases (the MAPs).
  • Master server.
  • Being an NIS client.
  • Interoperability with other name services.
  • Practical work Using the name service.
• Integration of Windows workstations and servers
  • Presentation of Samba.
  • NFS.
  • Access Unix files from Windows.
  • Be part of the network neighborhood.
  • Print to a printer connected to Windows.
  • Print to a printer connected to Unix from Windows.