Linux System Administration (LPI & CompTIA)

 
 

Course Code: LSA

Duration: 5 days

 
 

Linux System Administration (LPI & CompTIA) Course Overview

This instructor led Linux System Administration (LPI & CompTIA) training course is designed to teach the key administration, security, networking and performance tasks required on a Linux Enterprise system.

Similarly, the course is targeted to closely follow the official Linux Professional Institute (LPI) and CompTIA Linux+ certification curriculums.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

Course Objectives

On completion of this course the delegate will have the required technical knowledge to administer a Linux server within the Enterprise. They will have gained practical experience of configuring administrative, networking, performance and security aspects of a Linux Enterprise system.

The delegate will possess the essential knowledge required to study towards the Linux Administrator LPIC-1 and CompTIA Linux+ certifications.

Who will the Course Benefit?

The Linux System Administration (LPI & CompTIA) training course is suitable for novice Linux System Administrators, Programmers and other technical IT staff who need to acquire administration knowledge of the key administrative, networking, performance and security tasks required on a Linux operating system within the Enterprise.

An ideal course for delegates who will be working in an environment using several different Linux distributions and therefore knowledge of skills common to all the different Linux distributions is required. For the purpose of practical exercises, SUSE Linux will be used.

Delegates who wish to work towards achieving the Linux Administrator LPIC-1 or CompTIA Linux+ certifications will find this course a good basis for LPIC-1: 101-500 and 102-500 exams.

The appendixes also include other related topics that would be useful reading for delegates preparing for certification.

Note: Should the delegate only require knowledge of Red Hat Linux then they should instead consider attending our range of Red Hat Linux Administration courses.

Skills Gained

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

  • Performing command line administrative tasks
  • Using graphical administration tools
  • Comparison, creation and management of Linux file systems
  • Configuring file system labels and UUIDs
  • Understanding Logical Volume Management
  • Listing, creating and removing swap space
  • Managing users and groups
  • Configuring the environment and user limits
  • Configuring extended permissions and sudo
  • Managing software packages and updating Linux
  • Understanding GRUB and the startup process
  • Creating and managing Systemd units and services
  • Changing run levels and system shutdown
  • Configuring local and remote printers
  • Managing processes and job scheduling
  • Configuring SSH and encrypting data
  • IPv4 and IPv6 networking
  • Understanding and configuring network services
  • Configuring firewalld
  • Utilising terminal multiplexers
  • Configuring local and network time
  • Remote system administration
  • Creating backups and compressing data
  • Modifying language, keyboard and time zone settings
  • Configuring virtualisation and Docker containers
  • Understanding hardware, device files, ACPI and D-Bus
  • Configuring system logging and rotating logs
  • Troubleshooting the system

Linux System Administration (LPI & CompTIA) Training Course

Course Introduction

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

Session 1: FILE SYSTEM CONFIGURATION

  • File system types
  • MBR vs GPT partition tables
  • Partitioning a disk
  • Comparison of Linux filesystems
  • Creating Btrfs, XFS and EXT filesystems
  • Displaying disk usage
  • Mounting and unmounting file systems
  • Configuring labels and UUIDs
  • Locating files in use
  • Exercise

Session 2: ADVANCED FILE SYSTEM OPERATIONS

  • Logical Volume Management
  • Checking and repairing the file system
  • Growing file systems
  • Filesystem debugging and defragmentation
  • Listing swap areas
  • Creating and removing swap areas
  • Exercise

Linux System Administration (LPI & CompTIA) Training Course

Session 3: USER ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

  • User Private Group scheme
  • Files used in creating a user
  • Adding users via the command line and YaST
  • Managing groups
  • Password administration
  • Bash Shell environment
  • Configuring user limits
  • Extended permissions
  • Configuring sudo
  • Sudo aliases and groups
  • Monitoring login activity
  • Exercise

Session 4: PACKAGE MANAGEMENT

  • The Red Hat Package Manager (rpm)
  • Verifying Software
  • Querying installed and uninstalled packages
  • Installing and removing packages
  • Upgrade mechanism
  • Converting rpm packages to cpio format
  • Enhanced package management with zypper
  • Exercise

Session 5: SYSTEM LOGGING

  • rsyslog configuration
  • Configuring remote logging
  • Testing using logger
  • Managing logs with logrotate
  • Basic and advanced journal queries
  • Configuring the journal
  • Exercise

Session 6: SYSTEM SECURITY AND ENCRYPTION

  • Secure shell OpenSSH
  • Public/private key authentication
  • X11 forwarding
  • The SUSE firewall
  • Encryption with GNU Privacy Guard GPG
  • Managing firewalld from the GUI and command line
  • Exercise

Linux System Administration (LPI & CompTIA) Training Course

Session 7: SYSTEM STARTUP AND SHUTDOWN

  • System startup process
  • Startup script framework
  • Managing services using YaST
  • Starting and stopping services dynamically
  • Creating Systemd services, timers and mount units
  • Running transient units
  • suseconfig and /etc/sysconfig
  • Changing run levels and shutdown
  • Exercise

Session 8: PROCESS MONITORING AND SCHEDULING

  • Monitoring processes
  • Graphical monitoring tools
  • Utilising terminal multiplexers
  • Monitoring with watch
  • Shared libraries
  • Scheduling processes with at
  • The cron configuration files
  • Scheduling processes with cron
  • crontab command options
  • Managing anacron
  • Exercise

Session 9: LINUX NETWORKING

  • Basic network configuration
  • IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
  • Network protocols
  • Network services and port numbers
  • Configuring IPv4 and IPv6 with ip and Network Manager
  • Configuration with systemd-networkd
  • Managing network devices
  • Resolving hostnames and DNS
  • Searching domains
  • Routing under Linux
  • Exercise

Linux System Administration (LPI & CompTIA) Training Course

Session 10: INTERNET SERVICES

  • Network services
  • Managing services with systemd sockets
  • Checking network service ports
  • Analysing network packets
  • Configuring and monitoring network time
  • Configuring the hardware clock
  • Remote administration
  • Exercise

Session 11: 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 12: LOCALISATION

  • Localisation overview
  • Locale variables
  • Converting character sets and encoding
  • Configuring the locale and keymap
  • Configuring the system and user time zone
  • Exercise

Session 13: VIRTUALISATION, CLOUD SERVICES AND CONTAINERS

  • Configuring KVM virtualisation
  • Installing virtual systems
  • Understanding Linux Containers
  • Creating and running Docker containers
  • Iaas cloud
  • Exercise

Linux System Administration (LPI & CompTIA) Training Course

Session 14: DEVICES UNDER LINUX

  • Device services
  • Device file naming conventions
  • The /sys and /proc directories
  • Examining hardware
  • Hardware and software configuration messages
  • ACPI service and Desktop Bus
  • Managing disk parameters
  • Detecting new hardware
  • System overview: siga
  • Exercise

Session 15: BACKUP AND RESTORE

  • Archiving with tar and cpio
  • Device cloning with dd
  • Compressing files
  • Archiving RAR files
  • unar and other backup tools
  • Exercise

Session 16: TROUBLESHOOTING

  • Troubleshooting process
  • Booting into maintenance mode
  • Booting the rescue system
  • Exercise

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

APPENDIX A - INSTALLING LINUX

  • Installing Linux

APPENDIX B - ELECTRONIC MAIL

  • Configuring Postfix and Sendmail
  • Mail protocols
  • Mail commands

APPENDIX C – LINUX DESKTOPS AND ACCESSIBILITY

  • Configuring the X Windows GUI interface
  • Display protocols
  • The GNOME, KDE and Xfce desktops
  • Configuring the desktop for disabled users

APPENDIX D - PACKAGE MANAGEMENT

  • Additional software package management tools

APPENDIX E - DEPRECATED SERVICES

  • The xinetd Daemon
  • TCP Wrappers

APPENDIX F - ADDITIONAL COMMANDS

  • Miscellaneous Shell commands
Notes:
  • Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
  • Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions.

Examinations

This course together with the Linux Introduction and Linux Shell Programming or the combined Linux Fundamentals course are an excellent choice for delegates preparing to take the following exams:

  • Linux Administrator LPIC-1: 101-500 and LPI 102-500

Attending these courses and studying the associated reference materials can form part of the preparation to achieve certification. Experience, practice, self-study and aptitude are also key requirements for exam success.

Before taking any exam, ensure you have the recommended experience. The LPI and CompTIA websites list all exam requirements and these are updated regularly.

Exams are not included as part of the course.

Requirements

This Linux System Administration (LPI & CompTIA) course assumes good knowledge of the Linux operating system in an Enterprise environment to the level covered in the Linux Introduction course. Alternatively, relevant experience of UNIX or Linux servers is required, preferably within an enterprise environment.

Knowledge of Linux Shell Programming to the level covered on the Linux Shell Programming course would also be beneficial.

Pre-Requisite Courses

Course Reviews

Going in with limited knowledge of Linux, I am happy to report that I have finished the course with a much wider and more comprehensive understanding of the Linux OS. Mark did an excellent job of adapting it to suit my needs and gave me a solid foundation of Linux understanding to move ahead in my role. The topics were relevant, the pace was good and Mark was on hand to explain concepts in an understandable way.

Michael - It Manager - IT - September 2023


Great course and John did a good job explaining in detail and answer all question we had with ease

Paul


Really enjoyed the course and feel I have benefited greatly John was clear and informative. I felt that John was very approachable and he provided examples to questions as well as providing answers. I found going through the commands with him as he taught is a great approach and would recommend his style of teaching.

Philip


I take away an overall great knowledge gain and snippets of information that will no doubt make my future investigations more thorough and efficient.

Matthew - CERT Specialist - Communications


Very fun and informative course. Trainer's instructions were very good and I've got an answer to many Linux related questions I had. This course will make my Linux work at the institute much more easier. Very good week. Thank you.

Alexandru - Helpdesk Support Engineer - Environmental


From the onset the trainer was professional, respectful and friendly. With a clear understanding of the subject matter, he maintained a consistent energy and enthusiasm throughout the week. It was a breath of fresh air to be taught by someone who genuinely enjoys their job. Would highly recommend!

Ian - Engineer - Finance


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