Linux Administration - Bunch O' Stuff - Management - Policy & Politics

Curriculum Design and Instruction To Teach

Linux Administration: Bunch O' Stuff:

Management, Policy, and Politics:

Author: Charles Hayes:



This curriculum design and

instruction is for the Linux

administrator who must

efficiently solve technical

problems and maximize the

reliability and performance

of a production environment.

It addresses today's most

important Linux distributions

and most powerful new administrative

tools. It spells out detailed best

practices for every facet of system

administration, including storage

management, network design and

administration, web hosting,

software configuration management,

performance analysis, Windows

interoperability,m and much more.

Systems administrators will expecially

appreciate the thourough and up-to-date

subject of such topics such as DNS, LDAP,

secrutiy, and the Management of IT service

organizations:

Special Features Include:


* Phases For Conducting A Needs Assessment:

* Curriculum Design Supplement:

* Curriculum Design Plan:

* Lesson Plans:

* Instructional Goals:

* Instructional Objectives:

* Instructional Activities:

* Instructional Evaluation Techniques:

* Standard Vocabulary:

* A Limited Glimpse:





Topics Include:

* Bunch O' Stuff:

@ Management, Policy, and Politics:

A. Introduction:

B. Make Everyone happy:

C. components of a functional IT

organization:

D. The role of management:

1. Leadership:

2. Hiring, firing, and personnel

management:

3. Assigning and tracking tasks:

4. Managing upper management:

5. Conflict resolution:

E. The role of administration:

1. Sales:

2. Purchasing:

3. Accounting:

4. Personnel:

5. Marketing:

6. Miscellaneous administrative chores:

F. The role of development:

1. Architectural principles:

2. Anatomy of a management system:

3. The system administrator's tool box:

4. Software engineering principles:

G. The role of operations:

1. Aim for minimal downtime:

2. Document dependencies:

3. Repurpose or eliminate older hardware:

H. The work of support:

1. Availability:

2. Scope of service:

3. Skill sets:

4. Time management:

I. Documentation:

1. Standardized documentation:

2. Hardware labeling:

3. User documentation:

J. Request-tracking and trouble-reporting

systems:

1. Common functions of trouble ticket systems:

2. User acceptance of ticketing systems:

3. Ticketing systems:

4. Ticket dispatching:

K. Disaster recovery:

1. Backups and Off-line information:

2. Staffing your disaster:

3. Power and HVAC:

4. Network redundancy:

5. Security incidents:

6. Second-hand stories from the

World Trade Center:

L. Written policy:

1. Encryption:

2. Copyright:

3. Privacy:

4. Click-through EULAs:

5. Policy enforcement:

6. Control=liability:

7. Software licenses:

8. Regulatory compliance:

M. Software patents:

N. Standards:

1. LSB: the Linux Standard Base:

2. POSIX:

3. ITIL: the Information Technology

Interface Library:

O. Linux culture:

P. Mainstream Linux:

Q. Organizations, conferences, and other

resources:

1. Conferences and trade shows:

2. LPI: the Linux Professional Institute:

3. Mailing lists and web resources:

4. Sysadmin surveys:

R. Recommended Reading:

* STATE OF THE ART CURRICULUM DESIGN:

* NEW:

* REFERENCES:

* ILLUSTRATIONS:

* PHOTOS:

* PAPERBACK:

* TRANSPARENT FRONT PAGE:

* TITLE PAGE:

* BLACK OR WHITE BACK PAGE COVER:

* 8 TO 10 INCH FONTS:

* BINDED: B OR W OR COLOR COIL: WIRE-0:

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