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Linux Troubleshooting and Administration. Enhance your IT skills with this comprehensive video course on troubleshooting best practices and system administration. Learn to diagnose, resolve, and prevent system issues efficiently.
Instructor: Packt - Course Instructors
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This course is for IT beginners troubleshooting daily issues and experienced admins enhancing skills. Basic Linux command line knowledge is required.
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Recommended experience
Beginner level
This course is for IT beginners troubleshooting daily issues and experienced admins enhancing skills. Basic Linux command line knowledge is required.
Comprehend conceptual troubleshooting and system access troubleshooting
Master filesystem troubleshooting techniques
Analyze and resolve system administration issues and recovery scenarios
Manage and optimize your company's IT environment, ensuring smooth response to critical issues
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This course offers a deep dive into Linux troubleshooting, focusing on practical, real-life scenarios to prepare you for the challenges you may face in the field. Starting with an introduction to troubleshooting best practices, you will learn how to follow policies and standards, document processes, and seek online help effectively. The lab setup section guides you through installing Oracle VirtualBox, creating virtual machines, and setting up Linux, ensuring a solid foundation for hands-on practice.
In the conceptual troubleshooting modules, you'll tackle common issues like server access problems, slow virtual machines, and Linux installation errors. These scenarios will enhance your problem-solving skills and understanding of the underlying concepts. The course then progresses to system access troubleshooting, addressing issues like unreachable servers, firewall problems, and SSH connection failures, equipping you with the knowledge to maintain robust system access.
Finally, the course covers file system and system administration troubleshooting, teaching you to handle file permission issues, disk space management, and system performance problems. By the end of this course, you will have a comprehensive toolkit for diagnosing and resolving Linux issues efficiently. This course is for IT beginners troubleshooting daily issues and experienced admins enhancing skills. Basic Linux command line knowledge is required.
Applied Learning Project
Learners will build hands-on experience with real-world Linux troubleshooting scenarios, enabling them to apply their skills in authentic problem-solving situations. By working through these projects, learners will develop practical expertise in diagnosing and resolving a variety of system issues.
Apply best practices in Linux troubleshooting
Create thorough documentation of troubleshooting processes
Enhance communication skills with users and vendors
Resolve system access issues effectively
Apply advanced file system troubleshooting techniques
Manage disk space and partitions using standard and LVM methods
Develop scripts for efficient file management
Troubleshoot and resolve common system administration problems, such as memory shortages, IP connectivity issues, and system performance slowdowns.
Utilize essential commands and tools, including the 'sed' command, 'vi' editor, and swap space management, to efficiently manage system resources.
Develop and execute recovery strategies for both virtual and physical systems.
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