Unix System Administrator Training

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Unix System Administration training course

The course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the administration of a SVR4 compatible Unix System.

Practical work will concentrate on the basic SVR4 unix commands rather than vendor-specific administration menu driven or GUI tools.

Skills Gained

The delegates will practice:

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
Adding, changing and deleting users and user groups
Managing user passwords
Configuring login files
Running background tasks at regular intervals
Creating file systems
Mounting, monitoring and repairing file systems
Managing file access
Backing up and restoring files and directories using standard utilities
Configuring syslog to manage system event messages
Carrying out various housekeeping procedures to manage disk space

Requirements

Shell Programming is beneficial but not essential.

Content-

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

Administration and Course Materials
Course Structure and Agenda
Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: THE ADMINISTRATOR'S ROLE

Role of a System Administrator
Using the root login
Using and tracking the use of su
The sysadm menu system

Session 2: ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

Users, user groups and related system files
Adding new users and user groups (useradd, groupadd)
Changing and deleting users and user groups (usermod, userdel,
groupmod, groupdel)
Password and login control (passwd)
User communication facilites (wall, /etc/motd)
Exercise

Session 3: LOGIN FILES

The Bourne and Korn shell environments
Environment variables
The system profile /etc/profile
The user's .profile
The Korn shell start up file .kshrc
Korn shell options
Listing environment variables and aliases
Skeleton directories
Exercise

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 4: BACKGROUND JOBS

Starting background Jobs (&)
Using the nice command
Using cron processes
Creating crontab entries
Using the crontab command
The at command
Exercise

Session 5: FILE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

Physical disk organisation
UNIX partition slices
File system device names
File system types
File system structure
File system creation (mkfs)
Mounting and unmounting file systems (mount, umount)
Checking and repairing file systems (fsck)
Monitoring free space (df)
Exercise

Session 6: 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
Exercise

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 7: BACKUP AND RESTORE FACILITIES

Using the cpio command
Using the tar command
Using the dd command
Backup and restore services
Exercise

Session 8: MANAGING SWAP SPACE

Listing, configuring and disabling swap space (swap)
Exercise

Session 9: TERMINALS AND PRINTERS

Managing terminals
Using the stty command
Terminal model capabilities and commands (infocmp, tput)
The LP print service
LP print service files
Printer configuration (lpadmin)
Printer maintenance - managing printer status, job queues etc.
(lphsut, lpsched, /etc/init.d/lp, accept, reject, enable, disable, lpmove, lpusers, lpstat, cancel)
Printing from copies of files
Stopping banner output
Exercise

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 10: 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 (init, shutdown)
Recovery from boot failure
Exercise

Session 11: BASIC NETWORKING

Basic networking overview
Network hardware
Network software
Network addressing - IPv4
Network masks and subnets
Routing
Network commands (hostname, ifconfig, netstat, telnet, rlogin, ssh, ftp, sftp, rcp, scp, rsh, ping)
Client-Server environment
Servers
Networking services overview NIS, NIS+, DNS, LDAP NFS, DHCP
Exercise

Session 12: 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
Exercise

Course Contents - DAY 5

Session 13: KERNEL CONFIGURATION

System configuration
Configuration guidelines
Reducing disk I/O
Increasing user memory
Improving CPU performance
Special case tuning needs
The configuration process (/etc/conf/cf.d, idtune, idbuild)

Session 14: SOFTWARE INSTALLATION

Operating system installation
Other software installation (pkginfo, pkgadd, pkgrm)
Exercise

Session 15: SYSLOG

Syslog configuration
The /etc/syslog.conf configuration file
Editing the syslog.conf file
Logging telnet, ftp and other network daemons
Testing syslog logging (logger)
Exercise

Session 16: GENERAL HOUSEKEEPING

Managing files and directories
Checking file space used
Freeing up disk space
Saving disk space
File system organisation
Helpful hints
Exercise

Contact address

StayAhead Training
Training Provider
6 Long Ln, London EC1A 9HF, United Kingdom