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Unix System Administration — A 5-Day Course
Synopsis
This course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the administration of a SVR4 compatible Unix System. As it is a generic course, some of the differences between different vendors implementations will be noted. Practical work will concentrate on the basic SVR4 commands underlying the vendor-specific administration menu systems.
The delegates will practise:
- Adding, changing and deleting users and user groups
- Configuring Login Files
- Running background tasks at regular intervals
- Creating file systems
- Mounting, monitoring and repairing file systems
- File Access
- Backing up and restoring files and directories using standard utilities
- Managing Swap space
- Adding printers to the system
- Monitoring and controlling print jobs
- Starting and shutting down the system
- Customising start-up and shutdown procedures
- Monitoring system performance with the sar utility
- Configuring syslog to manage system event messages
- Carrying out various Housekeeping procedures to manage disk space
Course Objectives
On completion of the course the delegate will be able to administer a live UNIX SVR4 system.
Suitable for
- IT staff responsible for the maintenance and day-to-day running of a SVR4 compatible Unix system.
Prerequisites
- Completion of Unix Introduction and Unix Shell Programming courses, or equivalent knowledge
Publicly scheduled dates, locations, and prices
Central London — £1595 (+VAT)
- 16–20 Jun 2008
- 28 Jul–1 Aug 2008
- 29 Sep–3 Oct 2008
- 24–28 Nov 2008
Contents:
The Administrator's Role
- Role Of A System Administrator
- Using The root Login
- Tracking The Use Of su
- The sysadm Menu System
Account Management
- Users, user groups and related system files
- System and user profiles
- Adding new users and user groups
- Changing and deleting users and user groups
- Password and login control
- User communication facilities
Login Files
- The Bourne and Korn Shell Environments
- Environment Variables
- The System Profile
- The User's .profile
- The Korn Shell Start Up File
- Listing Environment Variables and Aliases
- Skeleton Directories
Background Jobs
- Starting Background Jobs
- Using The nice Command
- Using cron Processes
- Creating crontab Entries
- Using The crontab Command
- The at Command
File System Administration
- Physical Disk Organisation
- UNIX Partition Slices
- File System Device Names
- Mounting and Unmounting File Systems
- File System Types
- File System Structure
- File System Creation
- Checking And Repairing File Systems
- Monitoring Free Space
File Access
- File Access Criteria (Users, Groups and Permissions)
- Default permissions with umask
- Changing File Attributes with chmod, chown and chgrp
- Testing permissions with su
Backup and Restore Facilities
- Using The cpio Command
- Using The tar Command
- Using the dd Command
- Backup And Restore Services
Managing Swap Space
- Swap Space
- Configuring Swap Space
- Deleting Swap Space
Terminals and Printers
- Managing Terminals
- Using the stty Command
- Terminal Model Capabilities and Commands
- The LP Print Service
- LP Print Service Files
- Printer Configuration
- Printer Maintenance Commands
- Printer request Maintenance Commands
- Printing From Copies Of Files
- Stopping Banner Output
System Startup and Shutdown
- The /etc/init Procedure
- System Run States
- The /etc/inittab File
- System Startup Procedures and Processes
- System Shutdown Procedures and Processes
- Recovery From Boot Failure
Basic Networking
- Basic Networking Overview
- Network Hardware
- Network Software
- Network Addressing - IPv4
- Network Masks and Subnets
- Routing
- Network Commands
- Client - Server Environment
- Servers
- Networking Services Overview
- NIS, NIS+, DNS, LDAP
- NFS, DHCP
Performance Management
- Performance Management
- System Performance Tools
- System Activity Reporting using the sar command
- General Performance
- Specific Areas Of Performance
- Excessive Paging
- Disk I/O Performance
- CPU Performance
- Using the timex Command
Kernel Configuration
- System Configuration
- Configuration Guidelines
- Reducing Disk I/O
- Increasing User Memory
- Improving CPU Performance
- Special Case Tuning Needs
- The Configuration Process
Software Installation
- Operating System Installation
- Other Software Installation
Syslog
- Syslog Configuration
- The /etc/syslog.conf configuration file
- Editing the syslog.conf file
- Logging telnet, ftp and other network daemons
- Testing syslog logging
General Housekeeping
- Managing Files and Directories
- Freeing up Disk Space
- Saving Disk Space
- File and Directory Sizing Commands
- Increased Speed Of Access
- File System Organisation
- Helpful hint
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Publicly Scheduled Training Locations
We currently run public training courses in the following locations:
- London, UK
- Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
- Birmingham, West Midlands, UK
- Carshalton, Surrey, UK
- Chester, North West, UK
- Coventry, West Midlands, UK
- Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
- Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK
- Manchester, North West, UK
- Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, UK
- Newark, Nottinghamshire, UK
- Reading, Berkshire, UK
- Slough, Berkshire, UK
- Stevenage, Hertfordshire, UK
- Wakefield, West Yorkshire, UK
- Wokingham, Berkshire, UK
Most UK public training courses are available on a monthly basis.
Please see the individual course outlines or our public
training schedule
for details.
In-house (on-site) training locations
We deliver in-house courses at client premises and/or training facilities in
any part of the world which is practically and commercially accessible.
Our In-house training guidelines
outline our basic requirements and our UK pricing structure. To estimate costs
for training in other countries, simply convert to your local currency and then
make a rough calculation of our tutor's costs for travelling to and staying at
your location.
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