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: May 23, 2012
