I SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION

• What is a system administrator
• System administrator tasks
• System administration tools
  • YaST
  • SySEConfig

II

INSTALLATION REVISITED

• Preparing to Install
• What you should know
• partitioning
• LVM and RAID
• Network configuration
• Further installing information required
• Installing the system
• Validating the installation
• Post-install configuration
• Installation troubleshooting

III

BOOTING THE SYSTEM

• Boot sequence Overview
• BIOS initialization
• Boot loader components
• GRUB (Grand Unifying Boot Loader)
• Kernel initialization
• Init Initialization
• Run levels
• Starting system services rc......
• Controlling services
• System shutdown and reboot

IV MANAGE THE KERNEL

• Understand the features of the kernel
• Managing the kernel
• Device drivers and interfaces
• Adding new hardware

V FILESYSTEM MANAGEMENT

• System initialization: device recognition
• Disk partitioning
• Managing partitions
• File system types
• Adding filesystems
• Mounting filesystems
• Swap
• /proc

VI

MANAGING BACKUPS

• Backup strategies
• Backing up files with YaST
• Backing up files with tar, cpio and dd
• Automating backups with cron

VII

RPM

• The RPM way
• RPM Package Manager
• Installing and removing software
• Updating a kernel RPM
• RPM queries
• RPM Verification

VIII

USER ADMINISTRATION

• User policy considerations
• Working with accounts
• Password ageing
• Authentication configuration
• User access control lists(ACLs)

IX

PRINTING

• CUPS: Common Unix Printing Subsystem
• Configuring local and remote printing
• Managing print jobs and queues
• Using the Web administration interface

X ADVANCED FILESYSTEM MANAGEMENT

• Software RAID configuration
• Software RAID recovery
• Working with LVM
• Disk quotas

XI XEN

• Virtualization concept
• Xen operation
• Installing and configuring Xen

XII

PERFORMANCE MONITORING and TUNING

• Monitor a SLES10 system
• Use system logging services
• Find performance bottlenecks
• Optimize/tune the system
• Use PowerTweak