OLFU
Schedule of classes:
Check in for all classes will begin at 8 A.M. with complimentary coffee, juice, and pastries. All classes will start at 9 A.M. and will break for a complementary lunch. The day will end around 5 P.M.
Class Selection:
LPI Certification Level One Cram - all day
LOPSA AM Classes:
AM-1 Black Magic: Troubleshooting and System Administration
AM-2 Disaster Recovery - Will You Survive?
AM-3 Spam Filtering With Open-Source Tools
LOPSA PM Classes:
PM-1 Linux Terminal Server Project Administration
PM-2 Advanced Security - A Self-Assessment Study
PM-3 Introduction to LDAP: Provisioning, Managing, and Integrating
Student information:
You may take a full day of LPI Cram, One Morning LOPSA class and one Afternoon LOPSA class, or a 1/2 day of LPI and one LOPSA class. You must specify which classes you are taking when you register. LPI training does NOT include the cost of the certification.
LPI and LOPSA class sizes will be limited so that OLFU students can receive the very best personalized professional training experience. In the event that a class does not fit your need, you may switch to any other class by the end of the mid-class break, as long as there is space available.
Registration for OLFU is part of the Ohio LinuxFest "Professional Package" which includes OLFU training classes on September 25, admission to The Ohio LinuxFest on September 26, lunch on both days and official conference t-shirt. Registration is open now and it will be available until all seats are full. Register today.
Class Information:
LPI Certification Level One Cram
LPI All DayInstructor: Steven Pritchard
LPI Certification is for experienced system administrators with at least 6 intense months of administration experience. We will cover the topics LPI 101 and LPI 102 depending on attendee knowledge level. To get the most out of the class, bring your own PC (Computer, monitor, keyboard, mouse, power cords, surge protector, etc. Laptops encouraged.) Each student gets a tutorial binder for home study. For those who choose to pursue the LPI level one certification at the Ohio LinuxFest can do so for an additional discounted cost on Sunday afternoon on September 27.
Bio:
Back for the third year, Steven Pritchard will teach a full day cram class for LPI, the Linux Professional Institute's level one certification program. Since 2001 has delivered premier Linux training and open source consulting in Illinois through the Computer Room store. Over the years Steven has networked with LPI experts to develop the LPI cram class and "LPI Linux Certification in a Nutshell" book. With this class, Linux professionals who have had at least six months experience feel more confident with testing for the level one LPI certification.
Professional System Administrator Training
This year LOPSA will brings six half-day classes for professional system administrators covering topics such as Linux troubleshooting, disaster recovery, SPAM, with two new classes in LDAP and LTSP administration.
LOPSA AM Classes
AM-1 - Black Magic: Troubleshooting and System Administration
Instructor: Jonathan Billings
This class will cover several aspects of administering a Linux system,
including:
* Installation techniques
* Linux configuration management
* Troubleshooting hardware and software problems
* Poking around in the guts of the kernel
* Techniques for making your job easier
Bio:
Jonathan Billings is a Systems Administrator for the School of Engineering at the University of Michigan. He has worked a variety of academic environments. Jonathan lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan, with his wife, Leigh, and three cats
AM-2 - Disaster Recovery: Will you survive?
Instructors: Jesse Trucks and David Parter
Every IT operation eventually faces a disaster on some scale. Despite most disaster based damage being avoidable, the result is usually catastrophic in some way or another. In this class you will learn how to mitigate risk of disaster through a variety of methods. This class covers Disaster Recovery (DR) as a discipline and the low level mechanics of evaluating risks and developing mitigation or reactive disaster plans. All system administrators, regardless of the size or scope of their operation, will benefit from a more in depth understanding of DR taught in this class. The goal is to provide skills and knowledge that allows immediate changes to the disaster readiness of your own operations back at the office.
Bio:
In his ten years as a system administrator, Jesse Trucks has worked in a startup, at an ISP in the late 90's, as the single IT guy at a publishing company, and as part of an organization with nearly 250 system administrators maintaining more than 5,000 enterprise servers. Most recently, he managed a team of systems administrators. He has extensive security experience in policy development, monitoring, and implementation management, and he is well versed in Disaster Recovery planning and testing. Trucks advocates for extensive documentation, strong security, change control, and professionalism.
David Parter has been a system administrator at the University of Wisconsin Computer Science Department since 1991, and is currently the Interim Director of the Computer Systems Lab. At the Lab he has worked as a manager; been involved in campus committees; and collaborated with other groups on campus. Areas of responsibility and experience include policy development, security, network administration, liaison with the research projects, and a technical leadership role for the lab staff overall.
AM-3 - Spam Filtering With Open-Source Tools
Instructor: Chris St. Pierre
This tutorial will take participants through one approach to spam filtering that works well for a number of people, while admitting that there is no One True Approach. It will cover in-depth setup details for RBLs, greylisting, adaptive firewalls, HELO restrictions, ClamAV, SpamAssassin, and end-user tools like whitelists and blacklists; plugins and tweaks to make these tools more effective; potential pitfalls to this (and other) approaches to filtering; and a host of other smaller items, like soliciting feedback from your clients, gathering statistics and coallating log information
Bio:
Chris St. Pierre is the system administrator at Nebraska Wesleyan University, a small but growing liberal arts university. In his five years there, he has lead a charge to document and modernize the computing infrastructure. He has considerable experience and interest in issues of scalability, business continuity, and automation, and enjoys fighting spam in his spare time.
LOPSA PM Classes
PM-1 - Linux Terminal Server Project Administration
Instructor: Shawn Powers
Shawn will discuss the planning and implementation of a scalable Linux
thin client environment. Topics will include:
- Planning hardware needs
- Installing in LTSP only environment, or in an existing network infrastructure
- Configuration tips
- LTSP administration basics
- Load balancing
- Advantages and disadvantages
- How to convince "suits" LTSP is a good idea
The class will assume attendees have a basic understanding of Linux server administration. If you're unsure you'll know enough about Linux to take the course, feel free to watch Shawn's "Tech Tip Videos" on the Linux Journal website. The basic commandline 101 topics explained there will prepare a person for this class. http://www.linuxjournal.com/linux-minute
Bio:
Shawn Powers is one of the editors for Linux Journal, and also a tech director for a school in northern Michigan. While he has done everything from instructional videos, to writing, to podcasting, to system administration -- sadly he's best known for his strange hairdo. He's passionate about Linux in education, and he'd be more than happy to tell you about it. Don't say you weren't warned.
PM-2 Advanced Security: A self-assessment study
Instructors: Jesse Trucks and David Parter
This class takes an unconventional approach to advanced security for system administrators. The approach is based on the idea that we can usually figure out how to secure something once we know what needs securing, but the difficulty is usually in enumerating the things that require security. In this class, you will learn how to perform a comprehensive evaluation of your workplace security. This encompasses any organizational policies, applicable government regulations effecting system administration, network topology, personnel involved, systems, and other areas requiring evaluation to understand the full spectrum of security issues at a particular workplace. The goal is for you to take home a detailed list of questions to answer and risks to evaluate, as well as the tools to answer those questions, evaluate those risks, and propose solutions to meet the security needs of your organization.
Bio:
In his ten years as a system administrator, Jesse Trucks has worked in a startup, at an ISP in the late 90's, as the single IT guy at a publishing company, and as part of an organization with nearly 250 system administrators maintaining more than 5,000 enterprise servers. Most recently, he managed a team of systems administrators. He has extensive security experience in policy development, monitoring, and implementation management, and he is well versed in Disaster Recovery planning and testing. Trucks advocates for extensive documentation, strong security, change control, and professionalism.
David Parter has been a system administrator at the University of Wisconsin Computer Science Department since 1991, and is currently the Interim Director of the Computer Systems Lab.
At the Lab he has worked as a manager; been involved in campus committees; and collaborated with other groups on campus. Areas of responsibility and experience include policy development, security, network administration, liaison with the research projects, and a technical leadership role for the lab staff overall.
PM-3 Introduction to LDAP: Provisioning, Managing, and Integrating
Instructor: Chris St. Pierre
This introductory class will give you the tools you need to competently deploy and manage an enterprise-class LDAP service. We will use extensive demos to cover the structure and vocabulary of the hierarchical LDAP database; standards and best practices for provisioning and integration; migration from other authentication
systems, including NIS; integration with the Linux name service
switch; and integration with several popular open source applications,
including Apache, Samba, and Postfix. Particular emphasis is given to
understanding the concepts underlying LDAP, and translating those
concepts into effective integration with client-facing network
services.
Bio:
Chris St. Pierre is the system administrator at Nebraska Wesleyan University, a small but growing liberal arts university. In his five years there, he has lead a charge to document and modernize the computing infrastructure. He has considerable experience and interest in issues of scalability, business continuity, and automation, and enjoys fighting spam in his spare time.