Unix System Administration: Networking Features
- Recommended Duration:
- 3 Days
- Version
- SUN Solaris (V7-V10), IBM AIX V4.3, 5L (V5.1 and V5.2), HP-UX (V11 and V11i), and SGI IRIX V6.5, Linux (Red Hat * SuSe)
- Benefits
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Upon completion of this course, a system manager should be able to implement networking features for the system and it's users; define name service capabilities; and use advanced options and setups for the shell command interpreters.
- Audience
- Developers, Programmers, and System Administrators needing to enhance their Unix skills.
- Prerequisites
- This is an advanced Unix course. Participants must have Unix experience, or have completed the "Unix SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION: Essential Operations" course (or equivalent).
- Major Topics
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- Process concepts
- Shell command usage and review
- Advanced Network Features
- Review of network basic setup
- Subnet addressing
- Using arp (address resolution protocol)
- Network statistics
- Controlling the inetd process
- Misc. network tools
- File Transfer Capabilities
- ftp utility: setup, file capabilities, additional features, trivial ftp (tftp)
- Advanced Network File System (NFS) Features
- Advanced capabilities of server and client setup
- Using automount
- Using the Network Information Service (NIS and NIS+)
- Master server host
- Slave server host(s)
- Defining client hosts
- Creating database map files
- Making maps available to client hosts
- Name Services
- Capabilities of DNS
- BIND configurations
- Configuring the resolver
and the named process - Cache initialization
- Using nslookup to obtain information
- Configuring Remote Printers
- Printer setup databases (and control)
- Remote printer usage
- Tape Device Access through TCP/IP
- Using data dump (dd)
- Combining tar with dd
- Remote file system dumping
- Setting up anonymous ftp
- Maintaining System Integrity
- Specifying auditing events
- Improving shell performance
- Using the error report facility
- More on performance analysis
- Exercises
- There are numerous hands-on machine exercises. All five Unix platforms will be available for lab exercises.