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LinuxCBT EL-7x Edition

English | 2015 | mp4 | H264 1356×764 | AAC 2 ch | 25 hrs 13 min | 3.53 GB

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Course Objective

Features | Installations
– Discuss features of RedHat® | CentOS Enterprise Linux 7
– Explore installation options
– Perform GUI installation
– Perform Text-Mode Installation
– Provision Network Installation repository
– Perform Network Installation
– Perform Kickstart Installation
– Peruse Rescue Mode

Basic $SHELL Tools
– ‘pwd’, ‘touch’, ‘stat’, ‘ls’, ‘id’
– ‘echo’, ‘cat’, ‘head’, ‘tail’, ‘more’, ‘less’
– ‘cp’, ‘mv’ – transport content as needed
– ‘tty’ – Discuss terminals
– ‘tar’ – explore features and advantages of tarballs
– ‘gzip’, ‘bzip2’, ‘zip’ – Compress content
– Use checksums to validate data pre|post-transmissions
– ‘file’ – discuss logic used to ascertain file type
– ‘dd’ – generate content as desired
– Use ‘w’ commands
– ‘ps’ – explore process lists
– free & top – explore process management with top
– Process lines with: ‘grep’
– Process fields with: ‘awk’
– Explore ‘sed’ – streams processing
– User and group management concepts

SystemD | System Control
– Discuss new framework
– Contrast with INITD
– Identify FS footprint
– Alter system run-states via system control
– Manage services as needed
– Peruse INITD support

Storage Administration | File System (FS) Semantics | Features | Usage
– Discuss latest default FS implementation
– Identify common FS object types
– Discuss the benefits of Symbolic Links
– Implement a variety of Soft Links and evaluate characteristics
– Contrast Soft && Hard Links
– Implement Hard Links and evaluate characteristics
– Manipulate both Link forms and evaluate
– Identify current virtual memory environment
– Implement file-based additional virtual memory
– Allocate partitions to virtual memory usage
– Enable | Disable virtual memory as required
– Explore default XFS implementation
– Provision XFS storage blocks as needed
– Expand XFS blocks as required
– Explore default Logical Volume Management (LVM) Environment
– Provision LVM storage components
– Aggregate components into accessible blocks as desired
– Manipulate LVM storage on-demand

CRON – System Scheduler
– Peruse Cron Implementation
– Examine schedule options
– System-wide && User-wide Cron Jobs
– Run jobs as needed
– Check Cron status periodically

Syslog | Log Rotation Facilities
– Explore LOG rules engine
– Examine OS-provisioned LOG entries
– Archive LOGs to remote system
– Peruse Logrotate environment
– Rotate LOGs as needed
– Examine results

Common | Invaluable Network Tools
– ‘ping’ – availability
– ‘mtr’ – interhost paths and metrics
– ‘telnet’ – TCP socket availability
– ‘netstat’ – examine sockets
– ‘arp’ – L2 broadcast domain (VLAN) neighbors
– ‘dig’, ‘nslookup’, ‘host’ – name resolution tools
– ‘wget’, ‘curl’ – content retrieval agents

Time Administration | ChronyD
– Examine default environment
– Contrast with prior versions
– Explore ‘chronyd’ time service
– Contrast ‘chronyd’ with ‘ntpd’
– Configure ‘chronyd’ to permit internal synching
– Ensure synchronized time across nodes

YUM | Package Management
– Discuss features
– Contrast with ‘rpm’
– Compare with similar tools
– Explore default environment with ‘yum’
– Install | Remove packages as needed
– Apply updates where applicable
– Provision internal PROD YUM Repository
– Ensure functionality
– Manage packages

IP Administration
– Discuss features
– Contrast with ‘ifconfig’ | alias method
– Discuss ‘NetworkManager’ && ‘ifcfg-*’ scripts
– Peruse appropriate config tree
– Examine important directives
– Add IP resources dynamically
– Committ desired resources to persist
– Test persistance of IP resources

DHCPD | BIND DNS | Services
– Provision dedicated virtual DHCP subnet
– Setup DHCPD with basic configuration
– Ensure address assignation
– Trace administered resources
– Provision DNS Caching-Only service
– Test relayed resolution of proxied requests
– Setup Primary DNS service && Test
– Replicate Primary DNS records to Secondary instance
– Test replication and resolution across nodes

FTP Server
– Identify && provision secure FTP server service
– Explore default configuration
– Alter configuration to suit hypothetical security policy
– CHROOT user principles to heighten security
– Test configuration
– Move data

HTTPD Server
– Discuss features
– Implement HTTPD server
– Explore default configuration
– Identify important directories, files and directives
– Configure IP-based Virtual Hosts && Test configuration
– Update configuration to support Name-based Virtual Hosts
– Contrast configurations
– Use ‘apachectl’ to validate && effect configuration changes

MariaDB | RDBMS
– Explain implementation – features | benefits
– Implement on targets
– Secure instances and test access
– Explore defaults
– Provision simple DB container with table and sample data
– Test access
– Purge sample DB container

NMAP | Reconnaissance
– Discuss features
– Install NMap
– Explore footprint
– Analyze locally-published resources
– Contrast with routable resources
– Explore broadcast domain
– Perform a variety of scans to obtain more intel
– LOG results for post-processing

Packet Capturing
– Discuss sample use-cases
– Capture default traffic set
– LOG captured traffic for post-processing
– Tune captures with BPF filters
– Post-process with TCPDump && WireShark

FirewallD
– Discuss implementation
– Relate to IPTables
– Install GUI management tool
– Explore default policies
– Contrast Run-Time && Permanent Policies
– Enter ‘Panic’ mode in hypothetical situation
– Resume normal communications
– Define PROD service group for rules-aggregation
– Apply PROD service group and test communications

MISC
– Intro to SELinux Implementation
– Examine default SSH behavior
– Restrict SSH access to SFTP only connections
– Enforce file nomenclature via SSH
– Test functionality