This course is geared toward Windows system administrators, network administrators, and other system administrators who are interested in supplementing current skills or backstopping other team members.

Student will be capable of performing additional and more advanced system management including automation, advanced storage and security management.

Student will develop skills necessary to improve infrastructure performance, increase system utilization and security and configuring network services.

Managing scheduled jobs

Accessing network filesystems

Managing SELinux

Controlling firewalling

Troubleshooting

Control services and daemons.

Manage networking.

Configure link aggregation, bridging, teaming, and bonding.

Configure filters with firewalls.

Permit and reject access to network services using SELinux.

Manage DNS servers.

Configure SMTP email delivery.

Provide iSCSI block storage.

Configure NFS and SAMBA file-based storage.

Configure MariaDB SQL database.

Configure Apache HTTPD with TLS-enabled virtual hosts.

Write simple bash automation scripts.