Introduction to Oracle Linux
Development of Linux kernel
Linux kernel development model
Linux distributions
Oracle's commitment to the success of Linux
Oracle's technical contributions to the Linux community
Oracle's Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK)
Installing Oracle Linux
Obtaining Oracle Linux
Oracle Software Delivery Cloud
Anaconda installer
Installation steps
Firstboot tool
Unattended installation with Kickstart
Linux Boot Process
The Linux boot process
The init process
SysV init Runlevels
The /etc/rc.d directory
Configure services for runlevels
The Upstart event-based initialization system
System Configuration
Configuring system time
Using NTP (Network Time Protocol)
System configuration files
The proc filesystem
The sysfs filesystem
The sysctl utility
Package Management
Introduction to Oracle Linux package management
The rpm utility
Oracle Public Yum Server
Yum configuration
The yum utility
Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network (ULN)
Ksplice
Introduction to Ksplice
How Ksplice works
Ksplice implementation
Installation instructions
Manual instructions for Oracle Linux
Using Ksplice Uptrack
Ksplice Uptrack command summary
Ksplice Offline Client
Automate Tasks
Automating system tasks
Configuring cron jobs
Other cron directories and files
The crontab utility
Configuring anacron jobs
The at and batch utilities
System Logging
System log file configuration
rsyslog Actions
rsyslog Templates
Configuring logrotate
Use logwatch
Kernel Module Configuration
Loadable Kernel Modules (LKM)
Loading and unloading kernel modules
Kernel module parameters
User and Group Administration
Introduction to Users and Groups
User and Group Configuration Files
User Account Administration
Group account administration
User Private Groups (UPG)
Password aging
User Manager Tool
Managing use of su and sudo
File Systems
Disk Partitions
Partition Table Manipulation Utilities
File System Types
Making File Systems
Mounting File Systems
Maintaining File Systems
Swap Space
Disk Quotas
Storage Administration
Logical Volume Manager
Physical Volume Utilities
Volume Group Utilities
Logical Volume Utilities
RAID levels
Encrypted Block Devices
The kpartx Utility
Network Configuration
Network Interfaces
Additional network configuration files
Command line network interface utilities
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
Network interface bonding
VLANs (virtual local network)
NetworkManager
The system-config-network utility
Network Addressing and Name Services
Introduction to DHCP
Configuring a DHCP server
Configuring a DHCP client
Introduction to DNS
Nameserver types
BIND
DNS cache-only nameservers
Zone files
File Sharing
Introduction to NFS
NFS server configuration
The exportfs utility
NFS client configuration
Automounting filesystems
Introduction to Samba
Samba daemons and services
FTP Server (vsftpd)
OpenSSH Service
Introduction to OpenSSH
OpenSSH configuration files
OpenSSH configuration
Using OpenSSH utilities
Using the ssh-keygen utility
Using ssh-agent and ssh-add
Authentication and Directory Services
Authentication options
Authentication configuration tool
NIS authentication
Introduction to LDAP
OpenLDAP
Configuring LDAP authentication
Configuring Winbind authentication
Configuring Kerberos authentication
Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
Introduction to PAM
PAM module types
PAM control flags
PAM implementation examples
Security Administration
Introduction to SELinux
chroot jail
Introduction to iptables
TCP wrappers
Web and Email Services
Apache HTTP server
Email
System Monitoring and Troubleshooting
The sosreport utility
Kdump configuration
The netdump utility
The iostat, mpstat, vmstat, sar, top, iotop, strace, netstat, and tcpdump utilities
Wireshark GUI and tshark CLI
OSWatcher Black Box (OSWbb)
Enterprise Manager Ops Center
Performance Counters for Linux (PCL)
Oracle on Oracle
Oracle software user accounts
Oracle software group accounts
System resource tuning
Network Tuning
HugePages
Oracle ASM
Oracle Cluster File System Version 2 (OCFS2)