OpenView Consultancy International Standard Courses

The courses listed below are some of the standard courses and the costs are per course based on the training taking place on the customer's site for anything up to a maximum of 8 delegates. The costs do not include the hire of any equipment which is at the discression of the customer or standard travel and accomodation costs.

The course material is tailored to the customers requirements and is supplied in Portable Document Format (pdf). The customer is given the licence to print as many copies of the course notes as required. Should the customer require the material to be printed by OpenView Consultancy International then an additional cost will be incurred based on the numbers of delegates (quotations are available on request).

Fundamentals of Unix and Shell Programming

This course is designed for users who are new to Unix and concentrates primarily on using the command line features of the Operating System. This course is a generic Unix course and is ideal for those working in a mixed Unix vendor environment. Topics include the key Unix concepts, Unix filesystem structure and Unix files, file access control, Unix editors including ed, sed and vi, shell interaction and customising the user environment, process control and Unix utilities and filters. Shell programming covers the basics of Bourne shell programming, an essential skill for any Unix user, programmer or administrator.

Solaris System Administration

This course is designed for those new to Unix system administration based around the Sun/Solaris environment. It provides the delegate with the skills to setup, administer and maintain a Solaris workstation or small application server. Areas covered include :-

Solaris Networking

This extends on the knowledge gained from the Solaris Administration course to cover those involved in administering a Local Area Network of Unix workstations. This course is a prerequisite for those going on to the Advanced Networking or the Network Security course and covers the following :-

Advanced Networking

This course it aimed at those delegates who require the advanced networking skills to maintain and a medium to large Unix LAN network. The advanced networking section covers applications such as NTP, DNS server configuration, basic Apache Web server configuration and IPv6 implementation. Also covered are sendmail and advanced sendmail which deals with the security features, such as anti-spam and blocking mechanisms available with the latest version of sendmail.

Intranet Security

This is aimed to give delegates a practical overview of the freely available security tools to monitor and protect Unix systems from unauthorised access. It covers the Unix vendor independant tools such as Crack (for password protection), sudo (application security), Tripwire (to monitor file access), Swatch (log file monitoring), identifying common Unix backdoors and Trojan horses, detecting the use of rootkits and creating secure restricted Unix accounts.

This course is recommended to be run in conjunction with our 3 day Network Security course.

Network Security

This course is aimed at Network and Security administrators who need to ensure their entire corporate LAN is secure both internally and externally. It covers both network authentication and data encryption and has a nice module on the more common Microsoft Windows vulnerabilities that effect a heterogeneous environment. The course has a very strong practical slant to it and covers the following essential Network Security areas :-

With the exception of Secure NFS and IPsec (these are based on Solaris 8 and later), and the Windows Network Security module (Microsoft Windows), the modules apply to any Unix environment.