Detailed Course Outline
- LDAP concepts and architecture.
- Designing an LDAP directory structure.
- Creating and adapting LDAP schemes.
- OpenLDAP compilation, installation and configuration.
- Designing scripts to access an LDAP directory.
- Securing an LDAP directory.
- Authentication and authorisation.
- Applying Access Control Lists.
- Configuring multiple LDAP servers for increased availability.
- Performance analysis of an LDAP server.
- Securing the server with SSL/TLS.
- Using an LDAP directory, query-commands.
- Commands to modify the directory content.
- Integrating your LDAP directory with other services of the Linux system: integration with PAM and NSS.
- Migrating a Network Information Service (NIS) to LDAP.
- Integration with SSH, FTP, FreeRADIUS, CUPS, SAMBA, and E-mail services.
- Performance analysis and capacity planning: Using standard tools like top, iostat, vmstat and sar for performance measuring.
- Analysis of the results and identifying bottlenecks. Solving system load problems.
- Predicting future system load using the PDQ Perl module.