Mac OS (Lion) Administration
( Duration: 5 Days )COURSE AGENDA
1
Mac OS X Introduction
- Installation
- Various modes of installation
- Installation scripts
- Installation Options
- Verifying the installation
- System Startup, backup and recovery process
- Post Installation Setup
- Upgrading to 10.8
- Migrating the applications from previous versions to 10.8
- Advanced Command-Line Concepts
2
Elements of a shell script
- Scripting languages
- Bash features
- Setting Variables
- If/then conditionals
- Loops
- Formulating Scripts
3
User Accounts and Permissions
- Creating and Managing users
- Assigning user roles and privileges
- Access Control in Mac
- Managing user profiles and repositories
- Parental Controls
- User Notifications
- Managing disk quotas for users
4
Managing processes and applications
- Monitoring the processes and its progress with ActivityViewer
- Process Tree and its architecture
- Identifying bottlenecks in processes
- Forcible termination of a process
- Setting process quotas
- Profiling the processes
- Serializing the processes
5
Information Interfaces - FileSystems and Disk Management
- Diskutil to monitor disks and RAIDs
- Filesystems and their structures in Mac Mountain Lion
- Comparing various filesystems
- External filesystems support
- Mount points, file system roots
- Managing disk partitions using Diskutil, fdisk, diskpart and fsck
- Checking, formatting and repairing filesystems
- Mac OS X BootCamp assistant - Install Windows in dual boot
- Mailing from the command line
- System_Profiler Command
- SCUtil
- Ktrace
- Setting and monitoring Disk Quotas
- DSCL (Directory Services Command-Line Util)
- NICL (Netinfo Command-Line Util)
- Using Syslogd to collect log files
- Working with syslog facilities
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Hands-on Labs, Build Your Scripts
- Script 1: Eliminate Duplicates with a script
- Script 2: Run md5 to sense file changes
- Script 3: Use hdiutil to backup files and volumes
- Script 4: Backup Macs over a network using rsync
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Directory services
- Setting up and configuring Local directory server
- Directory Server architecture
- Directory Server storage mechanisms
- Directory server users
- Directory server authentication and authorization
- Directory encryption
- Configuring smart lookups, search policies
- Fine tuning the Directory Server and the search methods
- Making and installing SSL certificates
- Updating SSL Certificates
- Setting up LDAP based servers like Apache Directory Server
- Configuring LDAP schemes
- LDAP Storage architecture
- LDAP Authentication
- Integrating with Active Directory Services on Windows
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Monitoring Performance and Installing Software Components
- Use Xcode to compile and install solutions
- Use BigTop, MONster and other performance monitors
- Use PackageMaker to build installers
- Build and installer
- Install packages from the command line
- Strategies to build smart installers
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Mac OS X Debugging and Troubleshooting Utlities
- DashCode
- MallocDebug
- ObjectAlloc
- Shark
- Spin Control
- ThreadViewer
- Crash Reporter
- IORegistryExplorer
- Package Maker
- USBProber
- Console
- WireShark
- Common Tricks
- Debugging best practises
- Troubleshooting best practises
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Network Interfaces
- Setting up a network
- Network preferences
- Troubleshooting
- TCPDump inside and out
- Sniffing Network Packets with Ethereal
- configd and ifconfig
- sshd_config and ssh tunneling, ssh security
- Generating keypairs for automated connections
- Xwindows and ssh
- static routing and NAT, how to do it right with OS X Server
- Proxys for working though firewalls
- Wireless Networking ( Airport express, Airport Extreme and Airport Extreme 802.11n ),
- Bluetooth
- Wired Network, File sharing, Net sharing etc
- RemoteDesktop
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iCloud and Messages
- iCloud customization and repositories
- Message repositories
- Managing message repositories
- iCloud events and Message
- iCloud architecture
- Setting up and Managing user accounts in iCloud
- Managing data in iCloud
- User Quotas in iCloud
- NSCoding and UIDocument
- Core Data and UIManagedDocument
- Key-Value Data Storage
- Security and Sharing
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Security
- Rolling your own SSL certificates
- Installing SSL certificates
- Configuring SSL for Exchang and Entourage
- Installing SSL for mail servers
- Installing SSL for LDAP
- Other uses for SSL certificates
- Implement login hours for users and groups
13
Advanced Web Services
- Install Webmin and configure log analysis
- Install self-signed SSL certificates
- Setup Squirrelmail
- Configure MySQL and Phpmyadmin
- How to automatically configure sites without Server Admin
- Great Uses for Proxies
- Configuring mod_throttle
- Configuring throttled
- Working with Formmail.php
14
Open-Source Web Solutions
- Installing e-commerce solutions: phpshop and oscommerce
- Install More Groupware
- Install OWL document management system
- Install PostNuke, Typo3, and Mambo CMS
- Install Gallery2
- How to ensure dynamic sites index well with Google
- Generate PDF from Web Sites
15
Mail Services
- PostFix Configuration for OS X and OS X Server
- Working with Server Admin and PostFix command-line tweaks
- Virutal Mail Domains
- Virtual Mail Users
- Email Groups
- Keyword and expression filters for PostFix
- Backing up and troubleshooting PostFix and Cyrus
- Cyradmin tools
16
SPAM and Virus Protection
- SpamAssasin (spamd) - is it the best solution?
- ClamAV - open source virus scanner
- SPAM prevention concepts
- SPAM (unsolicited email)
- HAM (false positives)
- Bayesian filters and blacklists
- Whitelists and local users
- Configure and train a SPAM filter for PostFix
- How to implement SPAM filters on other servers
- WebStar V
- Exchange
- Eudora Internet Mail Server
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Remote Monitoring and Management
- Parsing log files and trending
- Scheduling events for monitoring
- Monitoring the health of hard disks and RAIDs
- S.M. A.R.T reporting on workstations
- Be alerted when a hard drive is about to fail
- Install and Configure Snort to detect intrusion attempts
- Scripts to send alert emails
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Advanced Mass Deployment/Administration
- Advanced Netboot Imaging Tools
- Integrating Netrestore PHPServices
- Integrating a Postgres database with Apple Remote Desktop
- Storing Machine-specific information in a web-enabled database
- Store Computer records
- Store serial numbers
- System Inforation reports
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Configure a Nagios Server
- Download the Nagios Source
- Compile and Install Nagios
- Handling the GD Dependency
- Deciding which Services to Monitor
- The art of Nagios Configuration Files
- Hosts, Groups, and Users
- The Nagios Web Interface
- Customizing the Nagios Display
- Nagios Alerting
- Securing Nagios traffic
- Use Nagios alerts to trigger software install/backup
- Use Nagios alerts to lock down workstations
- Configure the Workstations
- Make an Installer for server and clients
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Putting it all together
- Develop a plan to deploy solutions at your site
- Formulate checklist to identify challenges
- What equipment might you need? (pager, cell phone)
- Any changes to network infrastructure?
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