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This highly practical instructor led Oracle Linux 7 Administration training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the Oracle Linux operating system and basic systems administration.
Targeted to closely follow the Oracle Linux courses, this course together with the follow on Advanced Administration of Oracle Linux course will enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Oracle Linux Certified Associate Certification (1Z0-100).
The attendee will gain administration techniques used in the workplace.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
To provide command line and GUI the skills required to work productively in the workplace using Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL). The delegate will possess at the end of the course the majority of the skills required to begin their studies towards achieving the various Oracle Linux certifications.
The Oracle Linux 7 Administration training course is suitable for anyone who knows the Linux Essentials and needs to understand how to perform basic administration of the operating system. The course will particularly appeal to system administrators, Support Engineers, Database Administrators, network administrators, Unix administrators wishing to switch over/expand their skills or move to more popular Linux platforms, other operating system professionals or anyone who requires a proficiency in Linux.
The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:
Learn how to install Oracle Linux 7
Manage users and groups
Understand the boot process, system daemons and using systemd
Install packages from the Unbreakable Linux Network repositories
Learn about how ksplice can be used to update a running kernel
Configure kernel module parameters and load/unload modules
Understand disk organisation, Logical Volume Manager and RAID devices
Create ext, XFS and btrfs filesystems
Managing networks
Configure network services (NFS, FTP, NTP and OpenSSH)
Perform basic security using firewalld and iptables
Considerations for running an Oracle database on Oracle Linux
Basic troubleshooting
The delegate should be familiar with the topics covered on the Linux Fundamentals course including use of the ‘vi’ editor, working with files and directories, Linux command line and shell scripting.
Pre-Requisite Courses
Linux Fundamentals
The Oracle Linux 7 Administration training course will provide the basic skills required to study towards taking the Oracle Certified Associate, Oracle Linux 5 and 6 System Administrator certification (1Z0-100) ). For those wishing to study for the Oracle Certified Professional Oracle Linux 6 System Administrator (1Z0-105) then they should also attend the Oracle Linux 7 Advanced Administration course.
For those taking certification, our courses and also with Oracle’s own courses your preparation for the exam should include on the job hands-on experience which cover topics from the exam syllabus. The courses may not cover all the exam topics and therefore the candidate should prepare appropriately. Therefore, before taking any exam, ensure you have the recommended experience. The Oracle website lists all exam requirements and these are updated regularly.
Exams are not included as part of the course.
Course Introduction
Administration and Course Materials
Course Structure and Agenda
Delegate and Trainer Introductions
A brief history of UNIX and LINUX
GNU project
GPL – GNU General Public license
The LINUX kernel
The Bash Shell
Login sessions
GUI sessions and tools
Exercise
Downloading Oracle Linux
Using the anaconda installer
Installation process
Firstboot
Exercise
The boot process, bootloader and GRUB2
The systemd daemon
Control Services using systemctl etc.
Related commands
System Shutdown and Reboot management
Exercise
Setting date and time
Configuring Network Time Protocol (NTP)
Various configuration files
Using the sysctl utility
Exercise
Installing removing software manually using rpm
RPM queries and verifying packages
Dependency problems and resolution
Other RPM features
The YUM management tool
The software repositories
Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN)
Exercise
System Log Files
rsyslog configuration
Analysing and rotating log files
Use logrotate
Basics of journald and using journalctl
Monitoring tools:- sosreport, iostat, sar and top
Enterprise Manager Ops Center and OSWatcher
Exercise
User and Group administration
User Private Group (UPG)
Adding, deleting and viewing users and groups
Setting a password
Profile files
su and sudo commands
Exercise
Using ‘at’ to manage one-off jobs
Using the cron system
System crontab files
Monitoring cron access
Controlling access to the ‘cron’ and ‘at’ facilities
Using anacron
Exercise
Listing, loading and removing modules (lsmod, modinfo etc)
Updating the Kernel package
Using kernel arguments
Working with Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK)
What is Ksplice
Using Ksplice
Introduction to Oracle ASM
Exercise
Configuring Network Interfaces
Controlling Network Devices: ifup/ifdown
Configuring IPV4 dynamic and static networking
Network Tools ip, nmcli, ifconfig, ethtool etc
Starting/restarting the network
Network Monitoring Tools netstat, tcpdump, wireshark and tshark
Exercise
Creating partitions
Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
Basic LVM design and configuration
The Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
Displaying information regarding LVM volumes
Configuring RAID devices
Exercise
Creating EXT filesystems
Creating XFS Filesystems
Mounting and un-mounting file systems
The xfs_admin and xfs_growfs utilities
Extending/reducing Volume Groups, Logical Volumes and filesystems
Backing up and restoring XFS filesystems
Managing Swap Space
Exercise
What is a btrfs filesystem
The btrfs utility
Creating and Mounting btrfs filesystems
Maintaining btrfs filesystems
snapper utility
Exercise
What is available in OpenSSH – ssh, scp and sftp
Using ssh-keygen, ssh-agent, ssh-add and ssh-copy-id
By-passing password request when connecting to remote system
Exercise
The firewall Facility
firewall-config and firewall-cmd utilities
Packet Filtering using firewalld
iptables syntax
TCP wrappers
Exercise
Concepts of NFS
Configuring NFS server and client
Automounting NFS filesystems
Configuring Very Secure FTP (vsftp)
Troubleshooting NFS Problems
Exercise
Preparing Linux for Oracle Database
Oracle Pre Install RPM
Oracle Software and Group Accounts
Kernel Parameters for Oracle Database
Configure Huge pages
Automatic Storage Management and ASMLIB
Exercise
Understanding the boot process
The Rescue Environment
The chroot utility
dmesg utility
Exercise