Curriculum Design and Instruction To Teach
Linux Administration: Basic Administration:
Software and Configuration Management:
Author: Charles Hayes:
This curriculum design and
instruction is for the Linux
administrator who must
efficiently solve technical
problems and maximize the
reliability and performance
of a production environment.
It addresses today's most
important Linux distributions
and most powerful new administrative
tools. It spells out detailed best
practices for every facet of system
administration, including storage
management, network design and
administration, web hosting,
software configuration management,
performance analysis, Windows
interoperability,m and much more.
Systems administrators will expecially
appreciate the thourough and up-to-date
subject of such topics such as DNS, LDAP,
secrutiy, and the Management of IT service
organizations:
Special Features Include:
* Phases For Conducting A Needs Assessment:
* Curriculum Design Supplement:
* Curriculum Design Plan:
* Lesson Plans:
* Instructional Goals:
* Instructional Objectives:
* Instructional Activities:
* Instructional Evaluation Techniques:
* Standard Vocabulary:
* A Limited Glimpse:
Topics Include:
* Basic Administration:
@ Software and Configuration
Management::
A. Introduction:
B. Basic Linux installation:
1. Netbooting PCs:
2. Setting up PXE for Linux:
3. Netbooting non-PCs:
4. Kickstart: the Automated installer
for Enterprise Linux and Fedora:
5. AutoYaST: SUSE's automated installation
tool:
6. The Debian and Ubuntu installer:
7. Installing from a master system:
C. Diskless clients:
D. Package management:
1. Available package management systems:
2. rpm: manage RPM packages:
3. dpkg: manage Debian-style packages:
E. High-level package management systems:
1. Package repositories:
2. RHN: the Red Hat Network:
3. APT: the Advanced Package Tool:
4. Configuring apt-get:
5. An example /etc/apt/sources.list
file:
6. Using proxies to make apt-get
scale:
7. Setting up an internal Apt server:
8. Automating apt-get:
9. yum: release management for RPM:
F. Revision Control:
1. Backup file creation:
2. Formal revision control systems:
3. RCS: the Revision Control System:
4. CVS: the Concurrent Versions System:
5. Subversion: CVS done right:
G. Localization and configuration:
1. Organizaing your localization:
2. Testing:
3. Local compilation:
4. Distributing Localizations:
5. Resolving scheduling issues:
H. Configuration management tools:
1. cfengine: computer immune system:
2. LCFG: a large-scale configuration
system:
3. The Arusha Project (ARK):
4. Temple Tree 2: cfengine helper:
5. DMTF/CIM: the Common Information
Model:
I. Sharing software over NFS:
1. Package namespaces:
2. Dependency Management:
3. Wrapper scripts:
4. Implementation tools:
J. Recommended software:
K. Recommended reading:
* STATE OF THE ART CURRICULUM DESIGN:
* NEW:
* REFERENCES:
* ILLUSTRATIONS:
* PHOTOS:
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* TITLE PAGE:
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* 8 TO 10 INCH FONTS:
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