Oracle Linux System Administration - OCLSYSADM

Enrolling in this course will help you work towards becoming a knowledgeable Oracle Linux System Administrator. Learn how to install Oracle Linux and gain an understanding of the benefits of Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK).

Expert Oracle University instructors will take you through hands-on training configuring the kernel, installing packages and updating the kernel of a running system. You'll also learn how to configure users and rights, create and manage file systems, configure networking and manage system security.

The course is taught on the Solaris Operating Environment, however the material is suitable for any operating system, including Linux, UNIX, Windows, and Mac OS.

Prepare a Linux Environment

This course concludes by teaching you best practices so you can properly prepare a Linux environment. This will help you develop the skills to install Oracle Database.

Target Audience

  • Administrator
  • Technical Consultant
  • System Administrator

Outline

Introduction to Oracle Linux

  • Development of Linux kernel
  • Linux kernel development model
  • Linux distributions
  • Oracle's commitment to the success of Linux
  • Oracle's technical contributions to the Linux community
  • Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK)

Installing Oracle Linux

  • Obtaining Oracle Linux
  • Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
  • Anaconda installer
  • Installation steps
  • Firstboot tool
  • Unattended installation with Kickstart

Linux Boot Process

  • The Linux boot process
  • The init process
  • SysV init Runlevels
  • The /etc/rc.d directory
  • Configure services for runlevels

System Configuration

  • System configuration files
  • The /proc filesystem
  • The sysfs filesystem
  • The sysctl utility

Package Management

  • Introduction to Oracle Linux package management
  • The rpm utility
  • Oracle Public Yum Server
  • Yum configuration
  • The yum utility
  • Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN)

Ksplice

  • Introduction to Ksplice
  • How Ksplice works
  • Ksplice implementation
  • Installation instructions
  • Manual instructions for Oracle Linux
  • Using Ksplice Uptrack
  • Ksplice Uptrack command summary
  • System status

Automate Tasks

  • Automating system tasks
  • Configuring cron jobs
  • Other cron directories and files
  • The crontab utility
  • Configuring anacron jobs
  • The at and batch utilities

System Logging

  • System log file configuration
  • Configuring logrotate
  • Use logwatch

Kernel Module Configuration

  • Loadable Kernel Modules (LKM)
  • Loading and unloading kernel modules
  • Kernel module parameters

User and Group Administration

  • Introduction to Users and Groups
  • User and Group Configuration Files
  • Adding a User Account
  • Modifying and Deleting user accounts
  • Group account administration
  • User Private Groups (UPG)
  • Password aging
  • /etc/login.defs file

File Systems

  • Disk Partitions
  • Partition Table Manipulation Utilities
  • File System Types
  • Making File Systems
  • Mounting File Systems
  • The /etc/fstab File
  • Mantaining File Systems
  • Swap Space

Storage Administration

  • Logical Volume Manager
  • Physical Volume Utilities
  • Volume Group Utilities
  • Logical Volume Utilities
  • RAID levels
  • Encrypted Block Devices
  • The kpartx Utility

Network Configuration

  • Network Interfaces
  • Additional network configuration files
  • Command line network interface utilities
  • Network interface bonding
  • VLANs (virtual local network)
  • The route utility
  • NetworkManager
  • The system-config-network utility

Network Addressing and Name Services

  • Introduction to DHCP
  • Configuring a DHCP server
  • Configuring a DHCP client
  • Introduction to DNS
  • Nameserver types
  • BIND
  • DNS cache-only nameservers
  • Zone files

File Sharing

  • Introduction to NFS
  • NFS server configuration
  • The exportfs utility
  • NFS client configuration
  • Automounting filesystems
  • Introduction to Samba
  • Samba daemons and services
  • FTP Server (vsftpd)

OpenSSH Service

  • Introduction to OpenSSH
  • OpenSSH configuration files
  • OpenSSH configuration
  • Using OpenSSH utilities
  • Using the ssh-keygen utility

Authentication and Directory Services

  • Authentication options
  • Authentication configuration tool
  • NIS authentication
  • Introduction to LDAP
  • OpenLDAP
  • Configuring LDAP authentication
  • Configuring Winbind authentication
  • Configuring Kerberos authentication

Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)

  • Introduction to PAM
  • PAM module types
  • PAM control flags
  • PAM implementation examples

Security Administration

  • Introduction to SELinux
  • chroot jail
  • Introduction to iptables
  • TCP wrappers

Web and Email Services

  • Apache HTTP server
  • Email

System Monitoring and Troubleshooting

  • The sosreport utility
  • Kdump configuration
  • The netdump utility
  • The iostat, mpstat, vmstat, sar, top, iotop, strace, netstat, and tcpdump utilities
  • OSWatcher Black Box (OSWbb)
  • Enterprise Manager Ops Center
  • Performance Counters for Linux (PCL)
  • The perf utility

Oracle on Oracle

  • Oracle software user accounts
  • Oracle software group accounts
  • System resource tuning
  • Network Tuning
  • HugePages
  • Oracle ASM
  • Oracle Cluster File System Version 2 (OCFS2)

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Course Information

  • Understand Unix shell command line features
  • Know Basic shell scripting
  • Identify types of user accounts
  • Work with files and directories in Unix

  • Configure systems to use the UEK and enable kernel features.
  • Perform initial system configuration; set up users and groups, configure system logging, the network and storage.
  • Install additional software packages.
  • Keep systems up-to-date using Oracle's Unbreakable Linux Network.
  • Keep the kernel up-to-date using Ksplice technology.
  • Configure services available in Oracle Linux, such as: DHCP, DNS, NFS, Samba, FTP, OpenSSH, NIS, LDAP, PAM, Web and Email.
  • Secure, monitor and troubleshoot systems.
  • Prepare Oracle Linux systems to run Oracle Database.
  • Configuring & Updating the Kernel

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