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== System Administration Basics Course ==

Developed by Martin Owens, taught, Status: Alpha/Drafting

 * [[http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/ubuntu-system-admin-class-command-line-basics/|The Command Line Basics]] Done
 * [[http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/07/22/ubuntu-system-admin-class-local-computer/|Local Computer]] Done
 * [[http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/07/27/systems-administration-networking/|Networking]] Done
 * [[http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/08/06/systems-administration-package-management/|Package Management]] Done [[SoftwareManagement]]
 * [[http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/systems-administration-processes-services-and-deamons-with-apache/|Services, Processes and Daemons with Apache]] Done
 * [[http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/08/19/systems-administration-user-authentication-and-authorisation/|User Authentication]] Done
 * [[http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/systems-administration-remote-access/|Remote Access]] Done
 * [[http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/09/02/systems-administration-virtualisation/|Virtualisation]] Done
 * [[http://doctormo.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/systems-administration-network-infrastructure/|Network Infrastructure]] Done

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Organizer: Martin Owens (doctormo) Drafter: None (yet)

We would like to attract people from the IRC and various systems administration/ubuntu technical blog aggregation (planets) to help work out and peer review these classes.

This page describes the topics that are important for systems administrators to know as well as links to where information can be found about these topics. There are two main sections:

See below for course outlines.

Background Topics

Background information, stuff you wouldn't normally have a class to teach, but is important for students to have access to definitions and an understanding of the concepts. For instance you would need to understand IP-Addresses in order to be able to teach a network management under Ubuntu class, but you wouldn't want to spend a lot of time teaching it.

Classroom Topics

List of topics to cover in a class. Each topic should be direct and if need be, split up into simple modular components of the tasks required to be functional in that area.

  • Package Management Done SoftwareManagement

  • Services, Processes and Daemons with Apache Done

  • User Authentication Done

  • Remote Access Done

    • Screen
    • RDP
    • VNC
  • Installation and Deployment
    • Mass deployments through: netboot, ...
  • Network Management
  • Monitoring

    • SMART disk monitoring: smartctl - Man Page

    • General: SNMP, mrtg, cacti
    • Network traffic: ntop, vnstat, cbm, ..
    • Network sniffer: wireshark, iptraf, ..
    • Processes: top, htop, ..
  • Remote Server/Services Administration
    • webmin
    • ebox
  • Services
    • Scheduling System, crond
    • Printing, cups, lpd
    • File Sharing, ftpd
    • Web Hosting, apache, php, MySQL, ..
    • Remote Access, sshd
    • DHCP Server, dhcpd
    • DNS Server, bind
    • Mail: postfix/sendmail/qmail
    • Windows file share/domain server, samba
    • Tomcat
  • PXE Booting
    • Client Imaging
    • Thin Client Setups
  • Advanced CLI and Scripting
    • Tiny Shell vs.Bash vs. C shell vs etc...
    • Python
    • Perl
    • PHP
  • Virtualization
    • Underlying tech: kvm, xen
    • management: libvirt, virtualmanager

    • VirtualBox vs. VMWare vs QEMU vs WINE vs CrossOver

  • Clustering
  • Backups
    • rsync

    • dirvish Howto

    • rdiff-backup
    • rsnapshot
    • amanda
    • bacula
    • Deja Dup
  • Restricting the Desktop Users
    • Gconf-Editor
    • Gconftool-2
  • Process for Ubuntu SOE Development
  • Basic Security Practices
    • Apparmor
    • Iptables

System Administration Basics Course

Developed by Martin Owens, taught, Status: Alpha/Drafting

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