Advanced Linux Network and System Administration
Looking to boost your knowledge of Linux abilities as a system administrator? This course, LFCE: Advanced Network and System Administration teaches Linux systems topics that will take your sysadmin skills to the next level.
What you'll learn
Looking to boost your knowledge of Linux abilities as a system administrator? You should keep moving along the LFSA/RHCSA and LFCE/RHCE path. This course, LFCE: Advanced Network and System Administration, introduces you to a deeper level of network and system administration. First, you will look at managing system services with systemd. Next, you will dive deep into system and network performance, where you will learn techniques and tools to monitor system performance. Finally, you will jump into how to manage software on your system and in your data center with advanced packages management and wrap up with sharing data among your systems with NFS and Samba. By the end of this course, you'll know how to really drive the most value out of your Linux systems by providing more advanced network services and keeping your systems online and performing well.
Table of contents
- Introduction, Course Overview 1m
- Module Overview 0m
- How Does a Computer Start up, init Systems, and systemd? 7m
- Demo: init daemons and Starting and Stopping Services 4m
- systemd - Architecture, Units, Unit Types, and Unit Files 8m
- Demo: Units - Location and Anatomy 7m
- Demo: Units - Precedence and Automatic Restart 5m
- systemd - Targets 1m
- Demo: Working with Targets 8m
- systemd - Control Groups and Journals 3m
- Demo: Investigating Control Groups 8m
- Demo: Looking at Logs with journalctl 6m
- Extended Internet Services Daemon - xinetd 1m
- Demo: Configuring TFTP in xinetd 6m
- Module Overview, References, What's Next 1m
- Introduction, Course Overview 1m
- Module Overview, Learning Objective 1m
- CPU Concepts, Scheduling, and What to Look For 9m
- Demo: CPU Topology, Isolating a CPU Hog, Load Averages, and Waits 10m
- Memory Concepts, and What to Look For 4m
- Demo: Memory, Isolating a Hog, Swapping, and File System Cache 13m
- Disk Concepts, I/O Patterns, File Systems, and What to Look For 11m
- Demo: Finding High I/O Processes and Measuring Disk Latency 6m
- Network Concepts and Networks - What to Look For? 4m
- Demo: Socket Queues and Finding Network Hogs 6m
- Baselining and Benchmarking and Tools for Monitoring Performance 4m
- Demo: Generating Reports With sysstat and Using dstat 13m
- Module Overview, References, Further Reading, and What's Next 1m
- Introduction 1m
- Module Overview, Learning Objective 1m
- The Case for Packages, RPM Packages, and RPM Package Manager 7m
- Demo: Anatomy of a Package, and Interacting with RPM 14m
- Building Your Own RPMs 1m
- Demo: Building a Source RPM and Building and RPM from Source 15m
- yum 2m
- Demo: Using yum, Updating Your System, yum groups, and Searching 10m
- Repositories 2m
- Demo: Repository Configuration and Creating Your Own Repository 14m
- Module Overview, References, and What's Next 1m
- Introduction, Course Overview 1m
- Module Overview 0m
- Network File System, Why Use NFS, Architecture and Data Movement 6m
- NFS Services, Versions, and Server Configuration 8m
- Demo: Installing and Configuring an NFS Server, Adding Exports 7m
- NFS Client Configuration and Client Options 2m
- Demo: Mounting Exports and Listing a Remote Server's Exports 10m
- NFS File Security and Kerberos Authentication 4m
- Demo: NFS File Permissions, Kerberos, and Group Collaboration 16m
- Dealing with SELinux and Performance and Monitoring 3m
- Module Overview, References, and What's Next 1m
- Introduction, Course Overview 1m
- Module Overview and Learning Objective 1m
- What Is Samba and Why Use Samba? 3m
- Samba Architecture and Samba Server Services 2m
- Demo: Installing Samba 3m
- Client Authentication and Samba Server Configuration 4m
- Inside smb.conf 2m
- Samba File Security 2m
- Demo: smb.conf, Adding a Samba User and Sharing a Directory 8m
- Samba Client 3m
- Demo: Using smbclient and Mounting Samba Shares 13m
- Dealing with SeLinux and Performance and Troubleshooting 2m
- Demo: Configuring a Share for Collaboration 15m
- Module Overview, References, and What's Next 1m
About the author
Anthony is a Principal Field Solution Architect at Pure Storage as well as a Pluralsight Author, a Microsoft Data Platform MVP, Linux Expert, and Corporate Problem Solver. Anthony designs solutions, deploys the technology, and provides expertise on business system performance, architecture, and security. Anthony has a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science with research publications in high performance/low latency data access algorithms and spatial database systems.