This is an expansive course that covers a wide range of network services useful to every organization. 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 our classes, the course material is designed to provide extensive hands-on experience.
Topics include:
Security with SELinux and Netfilter, DNS concepts and implementation with Bind
LDAP concepts and implementation using OpenLDAP; Web services with Apache
FTP with vsftpd; caching, filtering proxies with Squid
SMB/CIFS (Windows networking) with Samba
E-mail concepts and implementation with Postfix combined with either Dovecot or Cyrus.
Supported Distributions:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
SUSE Linux Enterprise 12
Prerequisites
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.
*Course Cost listed does not include the cost of courseware. Course is subject to a minimum enrollment to run. Course may run virtually as a Live Distance Learning class if the minimum enrollment is not met. For more information, please email: learn@vtec.org or call (207) 775-0244.