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LINUX GET Training Program

EIS-UNIX
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Introduction:
This GET Training Program is designed for campus hired and provides Linux basic and
advanced knowledge.

Pre-Requisites
Target Audience: T1/T2

Training Duration: 12 Weeks

Pre-requisites for Selected Candidate

 Should be HCL Employee

 Campus hiring GET’s

Learning Objective: After completing this course

 Linux Basic knowledge

 Linux Administration
 Understanding on Package Management
 Understanding on iscsi target and initiator
 Understanding on High Availability
 Understanding on Linux Virtualization (KVM)
 Basic scripting knowledge
 Understanding on Encryption
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Training curriculum:

Module 1: REDHAT LINUX BASIC

Day 1

Introduction to LINUX

Introduction to REDHAT
 Origin of Linux
 GNU & OSF Project
 Linux distro
 The Kernel: The heart of OS
 Red Hat Operating System
 The Shell: User Interface to Red Hat
 Useful Red Hat Utilities
 Linux Graphical User Interfaces (X-window)

Using the System

 Logging In and Out

 Passwords
 Sending Mail
 Receiving Mail

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Login and logout RHEL servers

Day 2

Recap of Day 1 - 30 Min

Files and Directories

 File Types
 Listing Directories
 Long Listing of Files
 Change of Current Directory
 Creating Directories
 Working with Multiple Directories
 Display Directory Information
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Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 File and directories creation

 Working on different shell in Linux

Day 3
Recap of Day 2 - 30 Min

Using Files

 Copying Files
 Moving and Renaming Files
 Listing File contents
 Linking Files
 Removing Files
 Printing Files

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Copy files, move files across directories and servers

Day 4

Recap of Day 3 - 30 Min

File Permissions

Changing Permissions (Symbolic Notation)

 Change Permissions (Octal Notation)

 Default File Permissions
 Umask

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 File and Directories permissions

 Umask and sticky bit setting.
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Day 5

Recap of Day 4 - 30 Min

The VI Editor

 Introduction to the vi Editor

 Starting vi
 Adding Text
 Existing the Editor
 Deleting Text
 Changing Text
 Vi Options

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hour

 VI editor

Day 6

Recap of Day 5 - 30 Min

Shell Basics

 The Shell
 Metacharacters and Wildcards
 The Standard Files
 File Descriptors
 Input/output Redirection
 Pipes & Filters

Using Shell Variables

 Shell Variables
 Listing Variable Settings
 Shell Variables Example
 Command Line Parsing

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Shell and Variables

 Input Output, Redirections and pipes
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Day 7

Recap of Day 6 - 30 Min

Processes

 What is a Process?
 Process Environment
 Variables and Processes
 Exporting Variables

Controlling Processes

 Monitoring Process
 Terminating Processes
 Running Long Processes
 Job Control in the bash Shell

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Monitoring process

Day 8

Recap of Day 7 - 30 Min

Customizing User Environment

 Login Files
 Sample /etc/bashrc
 Sample /etc/profile
 Sample /etc/profile.d/
 Environment Variables

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Exporting variables
 User id files understanding
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Day 9

Recap of Day 8 - 30 Min

Linux Utilities Part -1

 Using find and find examples

 Describe basic grep functions
 Sort, head, tail, split, awk, sed commands
 tar for backup and restores

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Search files in Linux

 Usage of binaries like grep.head,tail

Day 10

Recap of Day 9 - 30 Min

LINUX Utilities Part -2

 Describe the functioning of xargs

 Use of which, type and where binaries
 Comparing two files using diff
 Compress un compress and zcat utilities

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hour

 Usage of utilities like compress,gzip,bzip2

Day 11

Recap of Day 10 - 30 Min

LINUX X- Windows Concepts

 Describe X windows in LINUX

 Describe X clients and X servers
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 The Linux xterm window

 The root window
 The xhost command

Using the Common Desktop Environment

 The login Manager

 The $Home/.profile
 The Front Panel
 Login to GNOME environment
 nautilus

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Linux X window environment

 Linux GNOME environment
 Usage of utilities X-Window

Module 2: RHEL ADMINISTRATION

Day 12

Recap of Day 11 - 30 Min

Introduction to Intel Based Hardware Oracle/Sun/ IBM/HP/ Dell

 Tower Server
 Rack Server
 Blade Server
 Console Logins
 Data Center Overview

System Management Interface Tool

Add user by using system-config-users command

Delete user by system-config-users command

Manage user policy by using system-config-users

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Add /Remove modify user property

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Day 13

Recap of Day 12 - 30 Min

System Startup and Shutdown

 Linux Booting Sequence

 Introduction of runlevels
 System Shutdown
 Manage the system environment

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 System startup commands

Day 14

Recap of Day 13 - 30 Min

LINUX Software Installation and Maintenance

 Packaging definitions
 Install and update software
 rpm command
 yum server and client

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Package Installation
 Use of yum to install packages

Day 15
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Recap of Day 14 - 30 Min

RHEL6 Installation

 Describe Installation Methods

 Installation process (CD/DVD)

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Installation via Media

 Post Installation Menu

Day 16

Recap of Day 15 - 30 Min

Devices

 List all supported devices

 Introduction of udev
 Persistent Device Naming by udev

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Device Configuration
 Listing devices and its attributes
 Create a symlink by using udev

Day 17

Recap of Day 16 - 30 Min

System Storage Overview

 Create simple partition by using fdisk utility

 Use of fdisk, sfdisk, cfdisk and parted utilities
 Uses of df, mount & du command

Recap of the day: 30 Min

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LAB: 4 hours

 Create simple partition

 Deletion of simple partition
 Permanent mounting

Day 18

Recap of Day 17 - 30 Min

Working with Logical Volume Manager

 Physical Volume Administration

 Volume Group Administration
 Logical Volume Administration

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 LVM Management

Day 19

Recap of Day 18 - 30 Min

Working with File Systems

 Ext, ext2,ext3, ext4 & xfs file system

 Listing File systems
 Add/remove File systems
 File system resizing by lvm
 NFS

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 File system attributes

Day 20

Recap of Day 19 - 30 Min

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Swap Space

 What is swap Space?

 Adding paging swap to system
 Removing swap space
 Checking swap space
 Problems in swap space

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 swap space management

 Changing swap space size
 Monitoring swap space

Day 21

Recap of Day 20 - 30 Min

Backup and Restore

 Types of Backups
 Introduction of tar,zip, dump commands
 Uses of vgcfgbackup & vgcfgrestore
 Lvm snapshot

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Backup and restore lvm metadeta

 Create archive and compress

Day 22

Recap of Day 21 - 30 Min

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Security and User administration

 Security concepts
 User Administration
 Security files

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 User management
 Changing user attributes

Day 23

Recap of Day 22 - 30 Min

Scheduling

 The cron daemon

 Crontab files
 Format of crontab file
 The at and crontab command

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Job scheduling

Day 24

Recap of Day 23 - 30 Min

Printers and Queues

 Linux printing environments

 Concepts of queues
 System files associated with printing
 The /etc/cups/printers.conf file
 Managing print queues
 Remote printing

Recap of the day: 30 Min

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LAB: 4 hours

 Print Management
 Practicing print commands

Day 25

Recap of Day 24 - 30 Min

Networking Overview
 What is TCP/IP?
 Names and addresses
 Configuring TCP/IP
 Identifying the hostname
 Basic TCP/IP user functions
 Understand the fundamental concepts of TCP/IP, protocols, and addressing
 Configure TCP/IP on LINUX
 Configure and use Telnet, FTP, rlogin, rsh, scp, rsync
 Configure and use the open secure shell (OpenSSH)

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Networking Functions

Day 26

Recap of Day 25 - 30 Min

Network File System

 Describe Network File System (NFS) function

 Configure NFS versions 3 and 4 on Linux

Recap of the day: 30 Min

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LAB: 4 hours

 Setting NFS server

 Sharing resources over the network

Day 27

Recap of Day 26 - 30 Min

Performance Monitoring

 Memory monitoring commands

 CPU monitoring commands
 I/O monitoring commands

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hour

 Monitoring management
 Monitoring commands

Day 28

Recap of Day 27 - 30 Min

Introduction to KVM

 Create, control, and manage virtual machine by kvm

 Describe the role of virt-manager Manage
 Describe the role of virt-install, virsh command

Recap of the day: 30 Min r

LAB: 4 hours

 Create, control and manage virtual Machines

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Day 29

Recap of Day 28 - 30 Min

Problem Determination Introduction

 List physical volume ,volume groups, and logical volumes on your system
 Identify real memory and swap/paging space on your system
 Identify the hardware platform and processor type of your system

SELINUX

 Describe SElinux Security

 SELinux modes
 Change SELinux Mode by using /etc/sysconfig/selinux
 Describe getenforce, setenforce, getsebool, setsebool

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

Day 30

Recap of Day 29 - 30 Min

System Initializations Part 1

 Boot a machine in maintenance mode

 Reset root password, file system check
 Describe rescue environment to trouble shoot booting problem.

System Initializations Part 2

 Boot a machine in maintenance mode

 Repair a corrupted filesystem
 Analyze and fix an unknown boot problem

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours
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Day 31

Recap of Day 30 - 30 Min

LVM Tasks and Problems

 Describe PE and LE concepts in lvm

 Analyze an LVM-related problem

LVM snapshot

 Create lvm by available PE

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

Day 32

Recap of Day 31 - 30 Min

Exporting and Importing Volume Groups

 Export a volume group

 Import a volume group

Saving and restoring a User Volume Group

 Merge two Volume groups

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

Day 33
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Recap of Day 32 - 30 Min

Error Log and Syslogd

 Determine what errors are logged on your machine

 Start concurrent error notification
 Identify errors and warnings sent by the rsyslogd daemon
 Create and maintain the /etc/rsyslog.conf file
 Redirect rsyslogd messages to the error log

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

Day 34

Recap of Day 33 - 30 Min

System Dump

 Initiate a dump
 Use the dd command

Authentication and ACLs

 Customize the nsswitch.conf file

 Add an additional primary authentication method for a user
 Implement access control lists (ACLs)

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

Day 35

Recap of Day 34 - 30 Min

PXE – Pre Execute Environment

 Explain key PXE concepts and terminology

 Display PXE information
 Set up a PXE server
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Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Setup PXE Environment

Day 36

Recap of Day 35 - 30 Min

Pre Execution Environment

 Perform a base installation by PXE

 Install a Virtual Machine by PXE

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 PXE installation

Day 37

Recap of Day 36 - 30 Min

Pre Execution Environment

Kick start Installation

Use nfs, ftp and http for kick start installation

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Create and maintain kickstart resources

Day 38

Recap of Day 37 - 30 Min

KVM
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 Clone a virtual machine by command line

 Clone a virtual machine by virt-manager

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Clone virtual Machine

Day 39

Recap of Day 38 - 30 Min

Introduction to iptables

 Describe nat , filter and mangle tables

 On and of firewall in GUI
 Add /remove or modify rules by using iptable utility

Day 40

Recap of Day 39 - 30 Min

rpm buildup

 rpm buildup
 Sign rpm
 Extract rpm content
 Introduction of EPEL REPO

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 2 hours

Buld an rpm with source rpm

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Day 41

Recap of Day 40 - 30 Min

Apache Server

 Deploy apache server

 Virtual Hosting

Recap of the day: 30 Min

Day 42

Recap of Day 41 - 30 Min

Apache Server

 Configure https
 Enable ldap Authentication
 Self-sign certificate

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Enable self-signed certificate

Day 43

Recap of Day 42 - 30 Min

Samba Server

Deploy samba server

Access linux share on windows machine

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Configure samba server

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Day 44

Recap of Day 43 - 30 Min

Automounting

Enable auto mounting

Describe /net directory

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Auto mount nfs share

Day 45

Recap of Day 44 - 30 Min

Ssh server

 Describe ssh server and client

 Enable key based authentication
 Describe all supported autentication

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Deploy ssh server and client

Day 46

Recap of Day 45 - 30 Min

Partition Operations

 Encrypt and decrypt linux partition using LUKS

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Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Use LUKS , encrypt partition

Day 47

Recap of Day 46 - 30 Min

DNS Server

 Deploy DNS server

 Describe master and slave

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Configure DNS Server

Day 48

Recap of Day 47 - 30 Min

DHCP Server

 Deploy dhcp server

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Configure DHCP Server

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Day 49

Recap of the Day 48 - 30 Min

FTP Server
 Deploy ftp server
 Describe sftp, ftp and lftp command

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Configure ftp server

Day 50

Recap of the Day 49 - 30 Min

FTP Server
 Deploy ftp upload and download server
 Disable anonymous ftp
 Enable ftp Chroot environment

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Allow local user for ftp

Day 51

Recap of the Day 50 - 30 Min

Virtual Ethernet

 Assign virtual devices to kvm virtual machine

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Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Virtual Ethernet Adapter configuration

Day 52

Recap of the Day 51 - 30 Min

Ethernet Bonding

 Describe Ethernet bonding

 Describe Bonding modes

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Enable Ethernet boding

Day 53

Recap of the Day 52 - 30 Min

ISCSI Target and Initiator

 Describe iscsi
 Deploy iscsi initiator
 Deploy iscsi target

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Deploy iscsi target and initiator

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Day 54

Recap of the Day 52 - 30 Min

ROUTING

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 Add two route in linux

 Configure two ip on same NIC

Day 55

Recap of the Day 54- 30 Min

SMTP
Deploy postfix mail server

Configure dovecot enable supported MRA

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

 SMTP Server

Day 56

Recap of the Day 55 – 30 Min

Bash Scripting

 Shell variables and data manipulation

 Regular Expressions I

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours
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Day 57

Recap of the Day 56 – 30 Min

 Understanding how the shell processes command lines

 Deploy squid Proxy server
 Deploy ntp server

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours
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Day 58

Recap of the Day 59 – 30 Min

Bash Scripting
 Branches, looping and control statements
 Case statement
 Functions

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

Day 60

Recap of the Day 58 – 30 Min

Bash Scripting
 If else conditions

Recap of the day: 30 Min

LAB: 4 hours

Day 61

Recap of the Day 60 – 30 Min

PAM Introduction
 Enable and disable ssh login by PAM

Recap of the day: 30 Mi

LAB: 4 hours
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Day 61

Recap of the day 60 - 1hour

Server Monitoring Tools

Day 62

Recap of the day 61 - 1hour

Red Hat Cluster

Over view of Red Hat Cluster

 High availability concepts

 Clustering concepts
 HA application services
 Clustering prerequisites

Day 63

Final Assessment