Linux Administration - Basic Administration - Software & Configuration Management

Curriculum Design and Instruction To Teach

Linux Administration: Basic Administration:

Software and Configuration Management:




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:


* Basic Administration:

@ Software and Configuration

Management::

A. Introduction:

B. Basic Linux installation:

1. Netbooting PCs:

2. Setting up PXE for Linux:

3. Netbooting non-PCs:

4. Kickstart: the Automated installer

for Enterprise Linux and Fedora:

5. AutoYaST: SUSE's automated installation

tool:

6. The Debian and Ubuntu installer:

7. Installing from a master system:

C. Diskless clients:

D. Package management:

1. Available package management systems:

2. rpm: manage RPM packages:

3. dpkg: manage Debian-style packages:

E. High-level package management systems:

1. Package repositories:

2. RHN: the Red Hat Network:

3. APT: the Advanced Package Tool:

4. Configuring apt-get:

5. An example /etc/apt/sources.list

file:

6. Using proxies to make apt-get

scale:

7. Setting up an internal Apt server:

8. Automating apt-get:

9. yum: release management for RPM:

F. Revision Control:

1. Backup file creation:

2. Formal revision control systems:

3. RCS: the Revision Control System:

4. CVS: the Concurrent Versions System:

5. Subversion: CVS done right:

G. Localization and configuration:

1. Organizaing your localization:

2. Testing:

3. Local compilation:

4. Distributing Localizations:

5. Resolving scheduling issues:

H. Configuration management tools:

1. cfengine: computer immune system:

2. LCFG: a large-scale configuration

system:

3. The Arusha Project (ARK):

4. Temple Tree 2: cfengine helper:

5. DMTF/CIM: the Common Information

Model:

I. Sharing software over NFS:

1. Package namespaces:

2. Dependency Management:

3. Wrapper scripts:

4. Implementation tools:

J. Recommended software:

K. Recommended reading:

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