Enterprise Linux Network Services

The GL275 is an expansive course that covers a wide range of network services useful to every organisation.

Special attention is paid to the concepts needed to implement these services securely, and to the trouble-shooting skills which will be necessary for real-world administration of these network services.

Like all Guru Labs courses, the course material is designed to provide extensive hands-on experience.

Module 1: Securing services

Module 2: SELinux and LSM

Module 3:DNS concepts

Module 4: Configuring Bind

Module 5: Creating DNS hierarchies

Module 6: Advanced bind DNS features

Module 7: Using apache

Module 8: Apache security

Module 9: Apache server-side scripting administration

Module 10: Implementing an FTP server

Module 11: The squid proxy server

Module 12: SQL fundamentals and MariaDB

Module 13: LDAP concepts and clients

Module 14: OpenLDAP servers

Module 15: Samba concepts and configuration

Module 16: SMTP theory

Module 17: Postfix

Module 18: Mail services and retrieval

Module 19: NIX

Students should already be comfortable with basic Linux or Unix administration. Fundamentals such as the Linux filesystem, process management, and how to edit files will not be covered in class.

A good understanding of network concepts, the TCP/IP protocol suite is also assumed. These skills are taught in the GL120 “Linux Fundamentals” and GL250 “Enterprise Linux Systems Administration” courses.