Test Your Advanced SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 Skills
- Exercise 46: Alabama Cement
- Exercise 47: Alaska Tours and Such
- Exercise 48: Arizona Aluminum Manufacturing
- Exercise 49: Arkansas University
- Exercise 50: California Dreaming
- Exercise 51: Colorado Insurers
- Exercise 52: Connecticut Water
- Exercise 53: Delaware Trucking
- Exercise 54: Florida Reviewers
- Exercise 55: Georgia Widgets
- Exercise 56: Hawaii PineTrees, Inc.
- Exercise 57: Idaho Rock Quarries
- Exercise 58: Illinois Lotto
- Exercise 59: Indiana Reptiles
- Exercise 60: Iowa Retirement Homes
- Exercise 61: Kansas Vets, Ltd.
- Exercise 62: Kentucky’s D S Technical
- Exercise 63: Louisiana Fishing
- Exercise 64: Maine Asylums, LLC
- Exercise 65: Maryland Programming
- Exercise 66: Massachusetts Spammers
- Exercise 67: Michigan Growers
- Exercise 68: Minnesota River Authority
- Exercise 69: Mississippi Diabetes Group
- Exercise 70: Missouri Knife and Scissor
- Exercise 71: Montana Expeditions
- Exercise 72: North Carolina Swimmers
- Exercise 73: North Dakota Plastics
- Exercise 74: Nebraska Genealogy
- Exercise 75: Nevada Design
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The 30 exercises that follow allow you to test your knowledge with SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9 at an advanced level. As with those that preceded, the vast majority of these exercises can be done from the console, but you might find it helpful to have at least one client connected to the server. Once again, the ideal client for most purposes is the Novell Linux Desktop.
Step-by-step solutions to these exercises appear in Chapter 4, "Solutions to Exercises." Table 3.1 lists the objectives and prerequisites from the courses used to prepare for the Novell CLE (Certified Linux Engineer) 9 that this section covers and which exercise each of those tasks can be found in. Where possible, every objective that could have an exercise associated with it is represented here at least once.
TABLE 3.1: OBJECTIVES WITHIN THIS SECTION
Objective |
Exercise |
Configuring a DHCP Server |
Exercises 48, 68 |
Configuring a DNS Server |
Exercises 49, 67 |
Configuring Email Services |
Exercise 50 |
Detecting Intruders |
Exercise 51 |
Implementing a Packet Filter |
Exercise 52 |
Implementing a Proxy Server with SQUID |
Exercise 53 |
Implementing a VPN |
Exercise 54 |
Implementing a Web Application Server with Tomcat |
Exercise 55 |
Implementing an Application-Level Gateway |
Exercise 56 |
Implementing General Security Practices |
Exercises 57, 73 |
Implementing Host Security |
Exercises 58, 71 |
Implementing Network Printing Using CUPS |
Exercise 59 |
Implementing Network Security |
Exercise 60 |
Implementing OpenSLP |
Exercise 61 |
Implementing Samba to Provide File and Print Services |
Exercise 62 |
Install SLES 9 |
Exercises 46, 72 |
Managing the SLES 9 System Configuration |
Exercises 47, 69, 70, 74, 75 |
Monitoring Traffic on Your Network |
Exercise 63 |
Relating General Firewall Concepts |
Exercise 64 |
Responding to Security Breaches |
Exercise 65 |
Securing Services with Cryptography |
Exercise 66 |
Using YaST |
Throughout |
Exercise 46: Alabama Cement
You are an administrator for a company that owns a number of independent concerns. One of those entities, Alabama Cement, has purchased an SLES 9 server, and you have been assigned to go to the site and install the operating system.
Someone will be following after you to install the proprietary software the site needs in order to do its specialized tasks. Your assignment is merely to perform a normal installation of the operating system.