After attending the LPIC-2 202 course, you will be able to:

• Manage a small to medium-large site
• Designing, implementing, maintaining, protecting and troubleshooting a small, mixed (MS, Linux) network, including a:
  • LAN server (Samba, NFS, DNS, DHCP, customer management)
  • Internet gateway (firewall, VPN, SSH, web cache/proxy, mail)
  • Internet Server (web server and reverse proxy, FTP server)
  • Supervision of assistants Advising management in the field of automation and purchasing

1. Network services

• Apache server
  • Configuration
  • Interesting modules
•  Server security
  • SSL, OpenSSL
  • Virtual servers in Apache 2.x
• Proxy servers – Squid
• Samba – MS Windows integration:
  • A theoretical introduction;
  • Server configuration;
  • Clients;
• Sharing files via NFS
  • NFS configuration: client- and server-side
  • Fundamental tools
  • Access control
  • TCP Wrapper
• DHCP server
  • Server configuration
  • BOOTP and DHCP protocols
  • Best practices in DHCP server management

2. LDAP catalogue services in Linux

• Using the LDAP client: data modification
• Importing and adding objects
• Managing users

3. E-mail systems based on Postfix

• Design, setup, configuration
• Maps and data sources
• Postfix server – management, command-line tools
• Procmail
• Secure e-mail infrastructure based on Postfix and Dovecot (IMAP and POP3), monitoring its work

4. Security

• PAM authentication
• IPTables as a firewall: configuration, a simple NAT and typical setup
• A safe FTP server – vsftpd
• Using SSH and SFTP; SSH server

5. Problem-solving and system monitoring

• Boot problems solving
• Syslog
• Useful tools
• Most common problems

• Linux Administrators
• Linux Professionals who want to prepare for the LPIC 202 exam

• Before attending this course, participants need to attend the LPIC 201 course or have experience at a comparable level.