Linux System Administration (LPI) (LSA)

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

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

Session 1: FILE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

• File system types
• Partitioning a disk
• Creating filesystems
• Displaying disk usage
• Mounting and unmounting file systems
• Locating files in use
• Exercise

Session 2: ADVANCED FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS

• Logical Volume Management
• Checking and repairing the file system
• Growing file systems
• Disk quotas
• Listing swap areas
• Creating and removing swap areas
• Exercise

Session 3: USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

• The User Private Group scheme
• Files used in creating a user
• Adding users via the command line and YaST
• Groups
• Password administration
• The Bash Shell environment
• Configuring user limits
• Extended permissions
• The sudo command
• User monitoring and communication
• Exercise

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 4: PACKAGE MANAGEMENT

• The Red Hat Package Manager (rpm)
• Verifying Software
• Querying installed packages
• Installing packages
• The upgrade mechanism
• Removing packages
• Converting rpm packages to cpio format
• Extended package management
• Exercise

Session 5: SYSTEM STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN

• System startup process
• The startup script framework
• Managing services using YaST
• Starting and stopping services dynamically
• Managing services with systemd
• suseconfig and /etc/sysconfig
• shutdown and rc
• Exercise

Session 6: CONFIGURING PRINTERS

• The Common Unix Printing Service CUPS
• Printer devices and configuration
• Installing printers
• Configuring the CUPS server
• Printer options
• Print commands
• Managing print queues
• Exercise

Session 7: PROCESS MONITORING AND SCHEDULING

• Monitoring processes
• Shared libraries
• Scheduling processes with at
• Scheduling processes with cron
• crontab command options
• Managing anacron
• Exercise

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 8: SYSTEM SECURITY AND ENCRYPTION

• The secure shell OpenSSH
• Public/private key authentication
• X11 forwarding
• Encryption with Gnu Privacy Guard GPG
• crontab command options
• Exercise

Session 9: CONNECTING LINUX TO THE NETWORK

• Basic network configuration
• IPv4 addressing
• IPv6 addressing
• Network protocols
• Network services and port numbers
• Managing network devices
• Hostnames and DNS
• Searching domains
• Routing under Linux
• Exercise

Session 10: INTERNET SERVICES

• Network services
• The xinetd daemon
• Protecting services with TCP wrappers
• Checking network service ports
• Configuring network time
• Interacting with the hardware clock
• Remote administration
• Exercise

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 11: BACKUP AND RESTORE

• Archiving with tar
• Archiving with cpio
• Using the dd command
• Archiving and compression
• Mirroring data between systems: rsync
• Other backup tools
• Exercise

Session 12: LOCALISATION

• Localisation overview
• Locale variables
• Character encoding
• Setting the locale
• The time zone
• Converting character sets
• Exercise

Session 13: CONFIGURING MARIADB AND USING SQL

• Installing MariaDB server and client
• Creating the database and tables
• The order by and group by clauses
• Joining tables
• Updating and deleting rows
• Backing up your database
• Exercise

Course Contents - DAY 5

Session 14: DEVICES UNDER LINUX

• Device services
• Device file naming conventions
• Examining hardware
• Hardware configuration messages
• Software configuration messages
• System bus support
• Managing disk parameters
• Detecting new hardware
• System overview: siga
• Exercise

Session 15:SYSTEM LOGGING

• rsyslog configuration
• Testing using logger
• Managing logs with logrotate
• The systemd journal: journalctl
• Exercise

Session 16:TROUBLESHOOTING

• The troubleshooting process
• Booting into maintenance mode
• Booting the rescue system
• Exercise

Addendum: Reference Materials (provided within the course handbook for additional reading)