SCN GmbH

Oracle Linux Network Administration

Seminar / Training Oracle Linux Network Administration

  • Basics of networking
  • Overview of TCP/IP
  • Interfaces and routes
  • Starting services
  • Compiling diagnostic tools from source code
  • DNS (Domain Name Service)
  • NFS (Network File System)
  • NIS (Network Information Service)
  • SSH (Secure Shell)
  • DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol)
  • Setting up a print server
  • Connecting to the Internet
  • Emulating Windows Server with Samba
  • From Linux to Windows
  • Administering Samba with SWAT
  • OpenLDAP
  • Linux as Windows Domain Controller
  • Product architecture
  • Planning and installation
  • User management Group management, mailboxes
  • File systems

Detailed seminar content

Unit 1 - Linux Networking Fundamentals with Oracle Linux

  • Linux and Distributions
  • Network communication basics
  • Configuring the network card
  • Network configuration at the command line
  • Network configuration system files

Unit 2 - Linux and Client/Server Architectures in Oracle Linux

  • The client/server architecture in Linux
  • Configuration of xinetd
  • Remote Procedure Calls

Unit 3 - Tools in Oracle Linux

  • Network Tools

Unit 4 - Security principles in Oracle Linux

  • What is security? Basics
  • Hardening a system for network use
  • Disabling unnecessary services
  • Configuring the firewall

Unit 5 - NFS server - Linux as a file server

  • Installing and starting the server
  • Configuring the NFS client
  • Functionality and configuration files

Unit 6 - Samba - Oracle Linux basics

  • Samba - Overview of development and technology
  • How Samba works on Oracle Linux
  • Installing Samba

Unit 7 - Samba - Configuration on Oracle Linux

  • Configuring Samba
  • Samba - User Management
  • Testing server setup - Linux as Samba client
  • Configuration with SWAT
  • Configuration of the file /etc/samba/smb.conf
  • Samba as central login server and PDC for Windows users

Unit 8 - Print server with Oracle Linux

  • Printer configuration on Linux
  • Linux and printing on the network
  • Setting up a print server
  • Setting up clients

Unit 9 - Apache2 web server on Oracle Linux

  • How the Apache web server works
  • Installing and configuring Apache2

Unit 10 - FTP server on Oracle Linux

  • How works
  • Installing the vsftpd FTP server
  • The /etc/vsftp.conf file
  • Testing the FTP server with a client

Unit 11 - Mail server with Postfix on Oracle Linux

  • Setting up and starting the mail server
  • Setting the mail server details
  • Testing the mail server and analyzing the log files
  • Retrieve mails with Fetchmail
  • Installing a custom POP server
  • Cyrus IMAP server
  • Setting up Cyrus-imapd

Unit 12 - NIS Server - Network Information System on Oracle Linux

  • Installing and starting the server
  • Setting up the NIS client
  • Configuration files and control of NIS

Unit 13 - Linux: Setting up routing on Oracle Linux

  • Advanced Network Configuration
  • Configuring Oracle Linux as an Internet Gateway with DSL, ISDN or Modem
  • Enabling routing and forwarding
  • Configure and test routing at the command line

Unit 14 - DHCP Server in Oracle Linux

  • The DHCP Protocol
  • Installing and configuring the server
  • Installing and configuring the DHCP server

Unit 15 - DNS Server on Oracle Linux

  • Domain Name Service (DNS)
  • Getting the DNS server up and running
  • Configuring the BIND DNS server
  • Configuring the DNS server

Unit 16 - Outlook: LDAP directory service on Oracle Linux

  • Brief overview of LDAP
  • Installing and setting up OpenLDAP
  • Advanced configuration with phpLDAPadmin

Unit 17 - System monitoring in Oracle Linux

  • Monitoring log files
  • Checking network security
  • System tools for network diagnostics

Unit 18 - Linux Network Monitoring with Oracle Linux

  • Viewing current connection data
  • Analyzing IP statistics with iptraf
  • Capture and monitor individual packets
  • Network monitoring with ntop

This seminar has the level "Administration / Basic andstructure".

If you are not sure whether this course is the right level for you, you can check this with the trainer in advance.

We conduct this seminar online for you. You can book the training as a public seminar or as a company seminar. The practical exercises are carried out in our Remotelab and make up 40-50 percent of the seminar.

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We offer seminars with a high practical relevance. The contents and exercises are geared to your daily tasks in the company and completely dispense with advertising references to other products of the software manufacturer.

All our training courses are manufacturer-independent. This enables us to offer critical considerations of the products themselves and comparisons with competitors of the manufacturer in the seminar. The course contents are our own and derived from the practical experience of our trainers in projects.

Of course, the contents of company seminars can be individually adapted to your needs. Please do not hesitate to contact us.
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