UNIX Systems Administration

    

Summary:
This course focuses on basic- to intermediate-level system administration in the UNIX environment.

Duration:
4 Days/Lecture & Lab

Topics:

• Learn to configure a system and perform maintenance tasks
• Gain hands-on knowledge about startup, shutdown, backups, filesystem, maintenance, and crisis management
• Learn the steps to successfully install UNIX software updates
• Create accounts for new users and preserve the security of existing accounts
• Perform day-to-day system management for startup, shutdown and backups
• Recover from common system catastrophes like filesystem failures, compromised user accounts and lost files
• The System Administrator
• A Review of the Shell
• Login Process
• Common Filesystem Directories
• User Maintenance
• Terminal Connectivity
• Special Devices
• Working with the Printer
• Remote Printing
• Maintaining Filesystems
• Using Backups and Restores
• Using at and cron
• Monitoring the System

Prerequisites:
To gain the most from this course, students must have experience with the UNIX operating system, including commands and utilities, pipelines, and shell programming and programming experience in a high-level language such as C or Pascal.

Last Update: February 8, 2012