Explore the basics of Linux system maintenance. Learn about system and security logs, troubleshooting the boot process, automating reports with scripting, and more.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome
- Environment setup
- Explore a system
- Explore load and uptime
- System logs
- Security logs
- Audit security access, groups, and users
- Check memory and process status
- Explore system resource usage with top
- Check free disk space
- Check disk status
- Reboot and shut down the system
- Interrupt and explore the GRUB boot loader
- Gain root access
- Exploring recovery options
- Manage system startup services
- Upgrading software
- Freeing disk space
- Adding a disk
- Automatically mount a disk
- Set up a logging server
- Send logs to a system
- Build a summary script
- Next steps
Taught by
Scott Simpson
