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.