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BOOK LINUX RECIPES FOR ORACLE DBAS
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- Credits
- Preface
- What this learning path covers
- What you need for this learning path
- Who this learning path is for
- Reader feedback
- Customer support
- Downloading the example code
- Errata
- Piracy
- Questions
- 1. Module 1
- 1. Managing Users and Groups
- Introduction
- Creating a user account
- Creating user accounts in batch mode
- Creating a group
- Adding group members
- Deleting a user account
- Managing file permissions
- Getting root privileges with sudo
- Setting password less sudo
- Other uses of sudo
- Setting resource limits with limits.conf
- Setting up public key authentication
- Working of SSH authentication
- Troubleshooting SSH connections
- SSH tools for the Windows platform
- Securing user accounts
- 2. Networking
- Introduction
- Connecting to a network with a static IP
- IPv6 configuration
- Installing the DHCP server
- Installing the DNS server
- Hiding behind the proxy with squid
- Access control list
- Set cache refresh rules
- Sarg – tool to analyze squid logs
- Squid guard
- Being on time with NTP
- Discussing load balancing with HAProxy
- Tuning the TCP stack
- Troubleshooting network connectivity
- Securing remote access with OpenVPN
- Securing a network with uncomplicated firewall
- Securing against brute force attacks
- Discussing Ubuntu security best practices
- 3. Working with Web Servers
- Introduction
- Installing and configuring the Apache web server
- HTTP version 2 support
- Serving dynamic contents with PHP
- PHP settings
- Installing the LAMP stack
- Upgrading PHP under Ubuntu 14
- Hosting multiple websites with a virtual domain
- Securing web traffic with HTTPS
- Installing Nginx with PHP_FPM
- Setting Nginx as a reverse proxy
- HAProxy and Varnish
- Load balancing with Nginx
- Setting HTTPs on Nginx
- Benchmarking and performance tuning of Apache
- Securing the web server
- Troubleshooting the web server
- Web server not accessible
- Virtual host not accessible
- Access denied or forbidden errors
- Apache downloads .php files
- 4. Working with Mail Servers
- Introduction
- Sending e-mails with Postfix
- Enabling IMAP and POP3 with Dovecot
- Adding e-mail accounts
- Web console for virtual mailbox administration
- Mail filtering with spam-assassin
- Troubleshooting the mail server
- Installing the Zimbra mail server
- 5. Handling Databases
- Introduction
- Installing relational databases with MySQL
- There’s more…
- Securing MySQL installation
- Storing and retrieving data with MySQL
- Importing and exporting bulk data
- Adding users and assigning access rights
- There’s more…
- Removing user accounts
- Setting resource limits
- Installing web access for MySQL
- There’s more…
- Setting backups
- Optimizing MySQL performance – queries
- There’s more…
- Sharding MySQL
- Optimizing MySQL performance – configuration
- There’s more…
- Percona configuration wizard
- MySQL table compression
- Creating MySQL replicas for scaling and high availability
- There’s more…
- Troubleshooting MySQL
- Installing MongoDB
- Storing and retrieving data with MongoDB
- There’s more…
- 6. Network Storage
- Introduction
- Installing the Samba server
- Tools for personal file sharing
- Adding users to the Samba server
- Installing the secure FTP server
- Synchronizing files with Rsync
- Performance tuning the Samba server
- Troubleshooting the Samba server
- Checking network connectivity
- Checking the Samba service
- Checking Samba logs
- Checking Samba configuration
- Installing the Network File System
- 7. Cloud Computing
- Introduction
- Creating virtual machine with KVM
- Managing virtual machines with virsh
- Easy cloud images with uvtool
- Setting up your own cloud with OpenStack
- Adding a cloud image to OpenStack
- Launching a virtual instance with OpenStack
- Installing Juju a service orchestration framework
- Managing services with Juju
- 8. Working with Containers
- Introduction
- Installing LXD,the Linux container daemon
- Deploying your first container with LXD
- Managing LXD containers
- Managing LXD containers – advanced options
- Setting resource limits on LXD containers
- Networking with LXD
- Installing Docker
- Starting and managing Docker containers
- Creating images with a Dockerfile
- Understanding Docker volumes
- Deploying WordPress using a Docker network
- Monitoring Docker containers
- Securing Docker containers
- 9. Streaming with Ampache
- Introduction
- Installing the Ampache server
- Uploading contents and creating catalogs
- Setting on-the-fly transcoding
- Enabling API access for remote streaming
- Streaming music with Ampache
- 10. Communication Server with XMPP
- Introduction
- Installing Ejabberd
- Creating users and connecting with the XMPP client
- Configuring the Ejabberd installation
- Creating web client with Strophe.js
- Enabling group chat
- Chat server with Node.js
- 11. Git Hosting
- Introduction
- Installing Git
- Creating a local repository with Git CLI
- Storing file revisions with Git commit
- Synchronizing the repository with a remote server
- GitHub pages
- Receiving updates with Git pull
- Creating repository clones
- Installing GitLab,your own Git hosting
- Adding users to the GitLab server
- Creating a repository with GitLab
- Automating common tasks with Git hooks
- 12. Collaboration Tools
- Introduction
- Installing the VNC server
- Installing Hackpad,a collaborative document editor
- Using Hackpad with Docker
- Installing Mattermost – a self-hosted slack alternative
- Installing OwnCloud,self-hosted cloud storage
- 13. Performance Monitoring
- Introduction
- Monitoring the CPU
- Monitoring memory and swap
- Monitoring the network
- Monitoring storage
- Setting performance benchmarks
- Graphing tools
- More options
- 14. Centralized Authentication Service
- Introduction
- Installing OpenLDAP
- Installing phpLDAPadmin
- Ubuntu server logins with LDAP
- Authenticating Ejabberd users with LDAP
- 2. Module 2
- 1. Installing CentOS
- Introduction
- Downloading CentOS and confirming the checksum on Windows
- or OS X
- Creating USB installation media on Windows or OS X
- Performing an installation of CentOS using the graphical installer
- Running a netinstall over HTTP
- Installing CentOS 7 using a kickstart file
- Getting started and customising the boot loader
- Troubleshooting the system in rescue mode
- Reaching rescue mode
- Accessing the filesystem
- Accessing the filesystem
- Re-install the CentOS boot loader
- Updating the installation and enhancing the minimal install with
- additional administration and development tools
- 2. Configuring the System
- Introduction
- Navigating text files with less
- Introduction to Vim
- Speaking the right language
- Synchronizing the system clock with NTP and the chrony suite
- Setting your hostname and resolving the network
- Building a static network connection
- Becoming a superuser
- Customizing your system banners and messages
- Priming the kernel
- 3. Managing the System
- Introduction
- Knowing and managing your background services
- Troubleshooting background services
- Tracking system resources with journald
- Configuring journald to make it persistent
- Managing users and their groups
- Scheduling tasks with cron
- Synchronizing files and doing more with rsync
- Maintaining backups and taking snapshots
- Monitoring important server infrastructure
- Taking control with GIT and Subversion
- How it works
- 4. Managing Packages with YUM
- Introduction
- Using YUM to update the system
- Using YUM to search for packages
- Using YUM to install packages
- Using YUM to remove packages
- Keeping YUM clean and tidy
- Knowing your priorities
- Using a third-party repository
- Creating a YUM repository
- Working with the RPM package manager
- 5. Administering the Filesystem
- Introduction
- Creating a virtual block device
- Formatting and mounting a filesystem
- Using disk quotas
- Enabling user and group quotas
- Enabling project (directory) quotas
- Maintaining a filesystem
- Extending the capacity of the filesystem
- 6. Providing Security
- Introduction
- Locking down remote access and hardening SSH
- Changing the SSH port number of your server
- Limiting SSH access by user or group
- Installing and configuring fail2ban
- Working with a firewall
- Forging the firewall rules by example
- To change an existing firewalld service (ssh)
- To create your own new service
- Generating self-signed certificates
- Using secure alternatives to FTP
- Securing your vsftpd server with SSL–FTPS
- Securing your vsftpd server using SSH – SFTP
- 7. Building a Network
- Introduction
- Printing with CUPS
- How to add a network printer to the CUPS server
- How to share a local printer to the CUPS server
- Running a DHCP server
- Using WebDAV for file sharing
- Installing and configuring NFS
- Installing and configuring the NFS server
- Creating an export share
- Working with NFS
- Securely sharing resources with Samba
- 8. Working with FTP
- Introduction
- Installing and configuring the FTP service
- Working with virtual FTP users
- Customizing the FTP service
- Troubleshooting users and file transfers
- 9. Working with Domains
- Introduction
- Installing and configuring a caching-only nameserver
- Configuring a caching-only Unbound DNS server
- Configuring a forwarding only DNS server
- Setting up an authoritative-only DNS server
- Creating an integrated nameserver solution
- How it works
- Populating the domain
- Building a secondary (slave) DNS server
- Changes to the primary DNS server
- Changes to the secondary DNS server(s)
- 10. Working with Databases
- Introduction
- Installing a MariaDB database server
- Managing a MariaDB database
- Reviewing and revoking permissions or dropping a user
- Allowing remote access to a MariaDB server
- Installing a PostgreSQL server and managing a database
- Configuring remote access to PostgreSQL
- Installing phpMyAdmin and phpPgAdmin
- Installing and configuring phpMyAdmin
- Installing and configuring phpPgAdmin
- 11. Providing Mail Services
- Introduction
- Configuring a domain-wide mail service with Postfix
- Changing an e-mails appearing domain name
- Using TLS- (SSL) encryption for SMTP communication
- Configure BIND to use your new mailserver
- Working with Postfix
- Connecting mailx to a remote MTA
- Reading your local mails from the mailbox
- Delivering the mail with Dovecot
- Setting up e-mail software
- Using Fetchmail
- Configuring Fetchmail with gmail.com and outlook.com email
- accounts
- Automating Fetchmail
- 12. Providing Web Services
- Introduction
- Installing Apache and serving web pages
- Enabling system users and building publishing directories
- Implementing name-based hosting
- Implementing CGI with Perl and Ruby
- Creating your first Perl CGI script
- Creating your first Ruby CGI script
- Installing,configuring,and testing PHP
- Securing Apache
- Configuring httpd.conf to provide better security
- Removing unneeded httpd modules
- Protecting your Apache files
- Setting up HTTPS with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- 13. Operating System-Level Virtualization
- Introduction
- Installing and configuring Docker
- Downloading an image and running a container
- Stopping and starting a container
- Attaching and interacting with your container
- Creating your own images from Dockerfiles and uploading to
- Docker Hub
- Uploading your image to the Docker Hub
- Setting up and working with a private Docker registry
- Steps to be done on our Docker registry server
- Steps to be done on every client needing access to our
- registry
- 14. Working with SELinux
- Introduction
- Installing and configuring important SELinux tools
- Working with SELinux security contexts
- Working with policies
- Troubleshooting SELinux
- 15. Monitoring IT Infrastructure
- Introduction
- Installing and configuring Nagios Core
- Setting up NRPE on remote client hosts
- Monitoring important remote system metrics
- 3. Module 3
- 1. Working with KVM Guests
- Introduction
- Installing and configuring a KVM
- Manual installation
- Kickstart installation
- Graphical setup during the systems setup
- Configuring resources
- Creating storage pools
- Querying storage pools
- Removing storage pools
- Creating a virtual network
- Removing networks
- Local storage pools
- Networked or shared storage pools
- Building guests
- Create a guest
- Deleting a guest
- Adding CPUs on the fly
- On the KVM host,perform the following steps:
- On the KVM guest,perform the following:
- Adding RAM on the fly
- Adding disks on the fly
- Moving disks to another storage
- Moving VMs
- Live native migration over the default network
- Live native migration over a dedicated network
- Backing up your VM metadata
- 2. Deploying RHEL "En Masse"
- Introduction
- Creating a kickstart file
- Publishing your kickstart file using httpd
- Deploying a system using PXE
- Deploying a system using a custom boot ISO file
- 3. Configuring Your Network
- Introduction
- Creating a VLAN interface
- Creating the VLAN connection with nmcli
- Creating the VLAN connection with nmtui
- Creating the VLAN connection with kickstart
- Creating a teamed interface
- Creating the teamed interface using nmcli
- Creating the teamed interface using nmtui
- Creating the teamed interface with kickstart
- nmcli
- nmtui
- kickstart
- Creating a bridge
- Creating a bridge using nmcli
- Creating a bridge using nmtui
- Creating a bridge with kickstart
- Configuring IPv4 settings
- Setting your IPv4 configuration using nmcli
- Setting your IPv4 configuration using nmtui
- Configuring your DNS resolvers
- Setting your DNS resolvers using nmcli
- Setting your DNS resolvers using nmtui
- Configuring static network routes
- Configuring static network routes using nmcli
- Configuring network routes using nmtui
- 4. Configuring Your New System
- Introduction
- The systemd service and setting runlevels
- Starting and stopping systemd services
- Configuring the systemd journal for persistence
- Monitoring services using journalctl
- Configuring logrotate
- Managing time
- Managing time through chrony
- Managing time through ntpd
- Configuring your boot environment
- Configuring smtp
- 5. Using SELinux
- Introduction
- Changing file contexts
- Temporary context changes
- Persistent file context changes
- Configuring SELinux booleans
- Listing SELinux booleans
- Changing SELinux booleans
- Configuring SELinux port definitions
- Troubleshooting SELinux
- audit.log
- syslog
- ausearch
- Creating SELinux policies
- Applying SELinux policies
- 6. Orchestrating with Ansible
- Introduction
- Install Ansible
- Installing the latest tarball
- Installing cutting edge from Git
- Installing Ansible from the EPEL repository
- Configuring the Ansible inventory
- The static inventory file
- The dynamic inventory file
- host_vars files
- group_vars files
- Creating a template for a kickstart file
- Creating a playbook to deploy a new VM with kickstart
- Creating a playbook to perform system configuration tasks
- Troubleshooting Ansible
- 7. Puppet Configuration Management
- Introduction
- Installing and configuring Puppet Master
- Installing and configuring the Puppet agent
- Defining a simple module to configure time
- Defining nodes and node grouping
- Create the configuration node
- Create a node group
- Deploying modules to single nodes and node groups
- Configure to deploy a module or manifest to a single client
- Configure to deploy a module or manifest to a node group
- Configure to deploy to all registered systems
- Deploy to a system
- 8. Yum and Repositories
- Introduction
- Managing yum history
- Your yum history
- Information about a yum transaction or package
- Undoing/redoing certain yum transactions
- Roll back to a certain point in your transaction history
- Creating a copy of an RHN repository
- Syncing RHN repositories
- Configuring additional repositories
- Setting up yum to automatically update
- Configuring logrotate for yum
- Recovering from a corrupted RPM database
- 9. Securing RHEL 7
- Introduction
- Installing and configuring IPA
- Installing the IPA server
- Installing the IPA client
- Securing the system login
- Configuring privilege escalation with sudo
- Secure the network with firewalld
- Showing the currently allowed services and ports on your
- system
- Allowing incoming requests for NFS (v4)
- Allowing incoming requests on an arbitrary port
- Using kdump and SysRq
- Installing and configuring kdump and SysRq
- Using kdump tools to analyze the dump
- Using ABRT
- Installing and configuring abrtd
- Using abrt-cli
- Auditing the system
- Configuring a centralized syslog server to accept audit logs
- Some audit rules
- Showing audit logs for the preceding rules
- 10. Monitoring and Performance Tuning
- Introduction
- Tuning your systems performance
- Setting up PCP – Performance Co-Pilot
- The default installation
- The central collector
- Monitoring basic system performance
- Monitoring CPU performance
- Monitoring RAM performance
- Monitoring storage performance
- Monitoring network performance
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