Oracle Linux 5 & 6 System Administration Ed 3 Virtual Classroom Live December 11, 2017

Course Overview

• Course Introduction
  • Virtualization
  • Elements of course environment
  • Course structure
• Introduction to Oracle Linux
  • Development of Linux Kernel
  • Linux kernel development model
  • Linux distributions
  • Oracle's commitment to the success of Linux
  • Oracle's technical contributions to the Linux community
  • Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK)
• Installing Oracle Linux
  • Obtaining Oracle Linux
  • Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
  • Anaconda installer
  • Installation steps
  • Firstboot tool
• Linux Boot Process
  • Linux boot process
  • init process
  • SysV init runlevels
  • /etc/rc.d directory
  • Configure services for runlevels
  • Xinetd service
  • Upstart
• System Configuration
  • Configuring system time
  • Using Network Time Protocol (NTP)
  • System configuration files
  • The proc filesystem
  • The sysfs filesystem
  • The sysctl utility
• Package Management
  • Introduction to Oracle Linux package management
  • The rpm utility
  • Oracle Public Yum server
  • Yum configuration
  • Yum utility
  • Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN)
  • ULN channels
  • Switching from RHN to ULN
• Ksplice
  • Introduction to Ksplice
  • How Ksplice works
  • Ksplice implementation
  • Installation instructions
  • Using Ksplice Uptrack
  • Ksplice Uptrack command summary
  • Ksplice Offline Client
• Automate Tasks
  • Automating system tasks
  • Configuring cron jobs
  • Other cron directories and files
  • The crontab utility
  • Configuring anacron jobs
  • The at and batch utilities
• Kernel Module Configuration
  • Loadable Kernel Modules (LKM)
  • Using the lsmod utility
  • Using the modinfo utility
  • Loading and unloading kernel modules
  • Using the modprobe utility
  • The insmod, depmod, and rmmod utilities
  • ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) and ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (ADVM) drivers
  • Kernel module parameters
• User and Group Administration
  • User and group configuration files
  • Adding a user account
  • Modifying and deleting user accounts
  • Group account administration
  • User Private Groups (UPG)
  • Password configuration
  • User Manager Tools
  • su and sudo commands
• Partitions, File Systems, and Swap
  • Disk Partitions
  • Partition Table Manipulation Utilities
  • File System Types
  • Making File Systems
  • Mounting File Systems
  • The /etc/fstab File
  • Swap Space
• Storage Administration
  • Logical Volume Manager
  • Physical Volume Utilities
  • Volume Group Utilities
  • Logical Volume Utilities
  • RAID levels
• Network Configuration
  • Network interfaces
  • Network configuration files
  • Network interface utilities
  • Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
  • Network interface bonding
  • Virtual Local Networks (VLANs)
  • The route utility
  • NetworkManager
• File Sharing
  • NFS server configuration
  • The /etc/exports file
  • Starting the NFS services
  • The exportfs utility
  • NFS client configuration
  • Automounting filesystems
  • vsftpd configuration options
• OpenSSH Service
  • OpenSSH configuration
  • Using OpenSSH utilities
  • The ssh, scp, and sftp utilities
  • Using the ssh-keygen utility
  • Connecting to a remote system without supplying a password
  • Using ssh-agent
  • Using ssh-add
• Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
  • Introduction to PAM
  • PAM module types
  • PAM control flags
  • PAM implementation examples
  • The /etc/pam.d/reboot file
  • The /etc/pam.d/login file
• Security Administration
  • The chroot utility
  • Implementing a chroot jail
  • The named and vsftpd services use of chroot jail
  • Firewall configuration tool
  • iptables terminology
  • Beginning optables maintenace
  • Using the iptables utility
  • TCP wrappers
• Oracle on Oracle
  • Oracle software user and group accounts
  • System resource tuning and network tuning
  • Linux shared memory kernel parameters
  • Semaphores kernel parameter
  • File handles and Asynchronous IO (AIO) kernel parameter
  • Oracle-related shell limits
  • Configuring HugePages
  • Oracle ASM
• System Monitoring
  • The sosreport utility
  • The iostat, mpstat, vmstat, sar, top, iotop, strace, netstat, and tcpdump utilities
  • Wireshark GUI and tshark CLI
  • OSWatcher Black Box (OSWbb)
  • OSWatcher Black Box Analyzer (OSWbba)
  • Enterprise Manager Ops Center
  • Spacewalk
• System Logging
  • System log file configuration
  • rsyslog.conf
  • Global directives, modules, rules, and templates
  • Facility/Priority-based filters
  • rsyslog Actions
  • rsyslog Templates
  • Configuring logrotate
  • Use logwatch
• Troubleshooting
  • Two-phased approach to troubleshooting
  • Operating system logs
  • The dmesg utility
  • Troubleshooting resources
  • Problem causes
  • Boot problems
  • NFS problems
• Oracle Cloud Computing
  • Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
  • Oracle Private Cloud Appliance
  • Oracle OpenStack for Oracle Linux
  • Oracle Compute Cloud Service
  • Oracle Compute Cloud Service Subscriptions
  • Oracle-Provided Linux Images on the Cloud

Prerequisites

Required Prerequisites:

• Experience with Unix shell command line features and basic shell scripting
• Experience with types of user accounts and working with files and directories in Unix
• Experience with text editing using vi and Unix process control
• Experience with archiving and compressing files in Unix and performing remote connections and file transfers

Suggested Prerequisites:

• UNIX and Linux Essentials