SUSE Linux System Administration

Who will the Course Benefit? Who will the Course Benefit?

The SUSE Linux System Administration 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 SUSE Linux operating system within the Enterprise.

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 or CompTIA Linux+: LX0-103, LX0-104 and XKO-004 exams.

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

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

• Performing administrative tasks via supplied tools (YaST) and the command line
• Comparison and management of SUSE file systems
• Understanding Logical Volume Management
• Listing, creating and removing swap space
• Managing users and groups
• Configuring the environment and user limits
• Extended permissions and sudo
• Installing software packages and updating a SUSE server
• Understanding GRUB and the startup process
• Configuring startup scripts
• Managing units and services
• Changing run levels and system shutdown
• Configuring local and remote printers
• Managing processes and automated tasks
• Configuring SSH and encrypting data
• IPv4 and IPv6 networking
• Understanding network protocols
• Managing xinet and network services (ftp, telnet etc)
• Configuring local and network time
• Remote system administration
• Creating backups and compressing data
• Modifying language and time zone settings
• Understanding virtualisation and containers
• Understanding hardware and device files
• Configuring system logging and rotating logs

Configuring system logging and rotating logs Course Objectives Course Objectives

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

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

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The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

• Performing administrative tasks via supplied tools (YaST) and the command line
• Comparison and management of SUSE file systems
• Understanding Logical Volume Management
• Listing, creating and removing swap space
• Managing users and groups
• Configuring the environment and user limits
• Extended permissions and sudo
• Installing software packages and updating a SUSE server
• Understanding GRUB and the startup process
• Configuring startup scripts
• Managing units and services
• Changing run levels and system shutdown
• Configuring local and remote printers
• Managing processes and automated tasks
• Configuring SSH and encrypting data
• IPv4 and IPv6 networking
• Understanding network protocols
• Managing xinet and network services (ftp, telnet etc)
• Configuring local and network time
• Remote system administration
• Creating backups and compressing data
• Modifying language and time zone settings
• Understanding virtualisation and containers
• Understanding hardware and device files
• Configuring system logging and rotating logs

Configuring system logging and rotating logs Course Objectives Course Objectives

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

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