Pro Ubuntu Server Administration

✍ Scribed by Sander van Vugt (auth.)

• Publisher: Apress
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 409
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Pro Ubuntu Server Administration teaches you advanced Ubuntu system building. After reading this book, you will be able to manage anything from simple file servers to multiple virtual servers to high–availability clusters. This is the capstone volume of the Apress Ubuntu trilogy that includes Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Third Edition and Beginning Ubuntu Server LTS Administration: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition. You will be able to make Ubuntu technology shine in a Fortune 500 environment and let Ubuntu server become the backbone of your infrastructure. Topics covered include

• Performance monitoring and optimization
• High–availability clustering
• Advanced Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) integrated networking

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxi
Performing an Advanced Ubuntu Server Installation....Pages 1-28
Using Ubuntu Server for System Imaging....Pages 29-43
Performance Monitoring....Pages 45-81
Performance Optimization....Pages 83-107
Advanced File System Management....Pages 109-130
Network Monitoring....Pages 131-159
Creating an Open Source SAN....Pages 161-195
Configuring OpenLDAP....Pages 197-230
Integrating Samba....Pages 231-247
Configuring Ubuntu Server As a Mail Server....Pages 249-280
Managing Ubuntu Server Security....Pages 281-302
Configuring Ubuntu Server As a VPN Server....Pages 303-320
Configuring Kerberos and NTP on Ubuntu Server....Pages 321-341
Ubuntu Server Troubleshooting....Pages 343-381
Back Matter....Pages 383-399

✦ Subjects

Operating Systems