Monitor Ubuntu Linux

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Monitor Ubuntu Linux

In this lab, you’ll practice managing and monitoring your Ubuntu Linux system. When you’re finished, you’ll have skills in managing system based services, targets, and timers, as well as scheduling tasks using cron and at. To top this of, you will be able to monitor and control processes.

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Lab Info

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(34)

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Aug 04, 2025

Duration

1h 45m

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Getting Started in the Lab Environment

Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!
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Manage Systemd Services

Since 2016, systemd has become the system and service manager in Ubuntu Linux, as well as most common Linux distributions. In this challenge, you will learn to manage these system services.
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Manage Systemd Targets

You will now practice using systemd targets, which are the modern equivalents of the legacy runlevels.
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Manage Systemd Timers

Since systemd timer units now replace many traditional cron jobs, you will learn to create timer units.
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Automate Scheduled Tasks Using Cron

In this challenge, you will learn to manage both user and system cron jobs.
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Use at to Schedule One-Off Tasks

The command at will allow you to schedule tasks to be executed just once. You will learn to schedule and view upcoming tasks using at.
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Monitor Server Processes

An important part of managing your server is being able to monitor server performance and running processes. To finish this lab, you will learn these critical steps in monitoring your Linux server.
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The Last Challenge

Welcome to the final challenge! This is your last chance to experiment in the environment. Clicking Finish Lab will end this little world that flittered into existence just for you.

About the author

Andrew Mallett

Andrew is a committed evangelist of the Linux Operating System and the concept of community and freedom that it provides. He has worked as a technical trainer since 1995 and has taught throughout the world, including Australia, the US, Germany and Eastern Europe. Andrew started teaching Linux in 2004 when Novell acquired SUSE and has been a long time supporter of Novell and provides SYSOP support the the Certifed Novell Instructor community on Linux. Andrew founded theurbanpenguin and has been submitting video training material to his YouTube channel since 2009 and currently has over 8,500 subscribers and 1.6 Million views. Andrew has had two publications with Packt: Citrix Access Gateway VPX Essentials (2012) and Citrix XenApp (2013).

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