English Delivery Only: Oracle Linux 9 Administration [STA_OLA]

OVERVIEW

*** Course delivered in English (UK - (GMT)) ***

Oracle Linux 9 Administration Course Overview

This highly practical instructor led Oracle Linux 9 Administration training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in

OBJECTIVES

Course Objectives

On completion of this Oracle Linux 9 Administration course,the delegate will have gained practical experience of the skills required to configure,run and maintain Oracle Linux systems and other Red Hat-based Linux distributions within an enterprise environment.

AUDIENCE

Who will the Course Benefit?

This Oracle Linux 9 Administration course is suitable for novice Linux System Administrators,DevOps teams,Managers and systems support personnel to administer,deploy,configure and maintain Oracle Linux and other Red Hat-based Linux distributions.

The course would benefit Administrators who have acquired basic Unix/Linux command line skills to the level covered on the Linux Introduction course.

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Further Learning

• Oracle Linux 9 Advanced Administration
• Linux Automation with Ansible
• Linux System Security
• Apache Web Server
• Oracle SQL

CONTENT

Oracle Linux 9 Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: BOOT CONFIGURATION AND DEVICES

• GRUB2 configuration
• System information
• Viewing Linux devices
• The /etc/sysconfig directory
• The /proc and /sys filesystems
• Systemd Control Groups
• Exercise

Session 2: MANAGING USERS AND GROUPS

• Creating,modifying and deleting user accounts
• Creating and modifying Linux groups
• Managing Linux passwords and hashing methods
• Managing users with Cockpit
• Configuring and retaining command history
• Exercise

Session 3: MANAGING FILESYSTEMS

• Viewing block devices
• Partitioning devices with gdisk and parted
• Filesystem comparison
• Creating XFS and EXT4 filesystems
• Mounting filesystems temporarily and permanently
• Configuring filesystem labels and UUIDs
• Exercise

Oracle Linux 9 Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 4: FURTHER FILESYSTEM OPERATIONS

• EXT and XFS filesystem maintenance
• Creating and extending Btrfs filesystems
• Creating and managing swap files and partitions
• Exercise

Session 5: ENHANCED FILE SYSTEM ATTRIBUTES

• Extended permissions
• Extended file attributes
• Creating and modifying Access Control Lists (ACLs)
• SELinux overview
• Viewing SELinux denials
• Exercise

Session 6: LOGICAL VOLUMES

• NFS overview
• Configuring an NFS server and client
• Configuring AutoFS - The Automounter
• Samba overview
• Configuring a Samba server and client
• Configuring SELinux for Samba
• Exercise

Oracle Linux 9 Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 7: SOFTWARE PACKAGE MANAGEMENT

• Querying installed and uninstalled packages with RPM
• Verifying packages and finding documentation
• The DNF package manager
• Further DNF options and history
• Further DNF options and history
• Exercise

Session 8: LINUX NETWORKING

• Configuring the system hostname
• Configuring IPv4 dynamic and static networking
• Configuring IPv6 addresses
• Capturing and analysing network packets
• Creating Wireshark filters
• Exercise

Session 9: NETWORK SERVICES

• Configuring a secure NTP and PTP client
• NTP vs PTP
• Configuring an SSH server and client
• Configuring public/private key authentication
• X11 forwarding
• Viewing firewalld services
• Configuring firewalld services and ports
• Exercise

Session 10: LINUX LOGGING

• Viewing Linux log files
• Configuring local and remote logging
• Managing log rotation
• Viewing and configuring the system journal
• Exercise

Oracle Linux 9 Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 11: BUILDING A VIRTUAL MACHINE

• Virtualisation concepts
• Checking for supported hardware
• Installing a virtual system
• Managing virtual systems via the command line or GUI
• Exercise

Session 12: AUTOMATING TASKS

• Using at to manage one-off tasks and scripts
• Managing tasks with cron
• Managing system crontab files
• Restricting access to at and cron
• Configuring tasks with anacron
• Exercise

Session 13: MANAGING PROCESSES AND UNITS

• Time-sharing
• Anatomy of a process
• Monitoring processes via the command line and top
• Killing processes
• Creating systemd service,timer and mount units
• Exercise

Session 14: LOCALISATION

• Localisation overview
• Viewing locale variables
• Setting the locale and keymap
• Configuring the system and user time zones
• Converting character sets and encoding
• Exercise

Oracle Linux 9 Administration Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 5

Session 15: BACKUP AND RESTORE

• Creating and extracting archived files
• Local and remote copying tools
• Compression utilities
• Viewing compressed files
• Cloning disks and partitions
• Exercise

Session 16: LINUX CONTAINERS

• Containers overview
• Containers vs Virtualization
• Docker overview
• Creating and managing Podman containers
• Attaching storage volumes
• Committing changes and exporting container images
• Exercise

Session 17: INSTALLING LINUX

• Downloading Oracle Linux
• The installation process
• Software selection and disk partitioning
• Configuring networking and users
• Logging in