Scalable Services Infrastructure
Simplified Course Outline
This is part of the
AFNOG 2001 Workshop,
held in conjunction with the
AFNOG
meeting in Accra, Ghana, in May 2001.
A more detailed course outline is also available.
COURSE OUTLINE
- Introduction and logistics
- FreeBSD tutorial
- DNS
- Configuring a reslver on a Unix-like system
- DNS excercises
- Web/Proxy/SSL
- Squid caching server
- Squid installation
- Squid cache hardware discussion
- Client configuration
- Apache with SSL
- Apache with SSL excercises
- Radius
- Radius installation and configuration
- Radius excercises
- Mail/Exim overview
- MTA's (Message Transfer Agents)
- Exim overview
- Exim installation
- Configure exim as default MTA
- Mailserver performance tuning and monitoring
- FreeBSD performance tuning
- Courier installation
- SQWebmail installation and configuration
- Help Desk
- SSH/Security Discussion
- Mail/Exim clustering technologies
- SSH and Security
- Help Desk overview and creation
- Majordomo overview
- Majordomo installation
- Managing Majordomo
- Mhonarc configuration
- Automation scripts for Mhonarc and Majordomo
- Wrap Up