Linux Administrator Course Online

Linux Administration Training with Placement

Course Content:

Session 1: Introduction to Linux and UNIX

• History of UNIX & LINUX
• Basic Concepts of Operating Systems, Kernel, shell and file system structure

Session 2: Installation of Linux

Different types of Installation Methods

• GUI
• Text

Session 3: Linux System Structure

• Basic concepts of Linux
• Differences between Red Hat Enterprise Linux & Cent OS
• Basic bash commands of Linux
• Editors [GUI & CLI]

Session 4: Boot Process of Linux

• What is booting and boot process of Linux?
• Init Process or Runlevels

Session 5: Software Package Administration

• Description of a Repository
• Difference between RPM and YUM
• Configuration of YUM server
• Installing and deleting software packages
• Querying and updating software packages

Session 6: User and Group Administration

• Types of Users in Linux
• Creating and deleting Users and Groups
• Modifying Users profile
• Adding Users into the Groups
• Important system files related to User & Group administration

Session 7: Advanced File Permissions

• Importance of Permissions
• Types of Permissions
• User level Permissions
• Group level Permissions
• Setting Access Level Permissions on Users & Groups

Session 8: Disk Partitioning and Mounting File System

• Definition of Partition
• Types of Partitions
• Difference between ext2, ext3 and ext4 file systems
• Creating partitions using fdisk utility
• Formatting partitions using mkfs to create filesystems
• Mounting various filesystems temporarily and permanently

Session 9: Logical Volume Management

• What is LVM?
• Conversion of Partition into Physical Volume
• Creating volume groups and logical volumes
• Mounting the logical volume filesystems
• Extend and reduce the logical volumes.
• Data storage using LVM
• Renaming volume groups and logical volumes
• Removing physical volume, volume group and logical volume

Session 10: Backup and Recovery

• Introduction to various types of backup media
• Backup and restoring using tar commands
• Automation of Jobs

Session 11: NFS

• Configuring NFS server
• Mounting NFS exports on clients

Session 12: NIS

• Basics of NIS
• Configuring NIS Servers and client
• Creating NIS users

Session 13: DNS

• Basics of Internet
• Basics of DNS and BIND 9
• Configuring DNS primary server

Session 14: DHCP

• Configuring Linux as DHCP Server
• Configuring various clients for DHCP Server

Session 15: Web Server (Apache)

• Basics of Web Service
• Introduction to Apache
• Configuring Apache for main site
• Configuring Apache for multiple sites using IP-based, port based and name-based

Session 16: FTP Server

• Basics of File Transfer Protocol.
• Configuring vsftpd for anonymous ftp service.

Session 17: Proxy Server (SQUID)

• Basics of proxy services
• Configuring proxy services
• Creating ACL’s for controlling access to internet

Session 18: Samba Server

• Basics of file sharing in Windows
• Configuring Samba service for file sharing with windows systems

Session 19: Mail Server Configuration

• Basics of Mail Servers
• Configuring SMTP service using sendmail

Session 20: Log Server

• Importance of logs
• Configuring Syslog Messages

Session 21: Network Connections

• Configuring Physical IP Address
• Configuring Virtual IP Address
• Enabling & Disabling the Network Connections
• Iptables

Session 22: Basics of Shell scripting

Session 23: Troubleshooting Linux

• Recovering the super user password.
• Troubleshooting network related problems.