Getting Started with the Classroom Environment

• Given a virtualized environment, begin to administrate multiple systems using prerequisite skills

Enhance User Security

• Configure system to use Kerberos to verify credentials and grant privileges via sudo

Bash Scripting and Tools

• Automate system administration tasks utilizing Bash scripts and text-based tools

File Security with GnuPG

• Secure files with GnuPG.

Software Management

• Use yum plugins to manage packages and understand the design of packages to build a simple package

Network Monitoring

• Profile running services then capture and analyze network traffic

Route Network Traffic

• Configure system to route traffic and customize network parameters with sysctl

Secure Network Traffic

• Secure network traffic through SSH port forwarding and iptables filtering/network address translation (NAT)

NTP Server Configuration

• Configure an NTP server

Filesystems and Logs

• Manage local file system integrity, monitor system over time, and system logging

Centralized and Secure Storage

• Acess centralized storage (iSCSI) and encrypt filesystems

SSL-encapsulated Web Services

• Understand SSL certificates and deploy an SSL encapsulated web service

Web Server Additional Configuration

• Configure web server with virtual hosts, dynamic content, and authenticated diretories

Basic SMTP Configuration

• Configure an SMTP server for basic operation (null client, receiving mail, smarthost relay)

Caching-Only DNS Server

• Understand DNS resource records and configure a caching-only name server

File Sharing with NFS

• Configure file sharing between hosts with NFS

File Sharing with CIFS

• Configure file and print sharing between hosts with CIFS

File Sharing with FTP

• Configure file sharing with anonymous FTP

Troubleshooting Boot Process

• Understand the boot process and recover unbootable systems with rescue mode