On Sep 17, 2010, at 3:39 AM, "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote: > > (note: i asked this a few days ago but it *appears* that that post > was tossed due to getting excessive bounces from my account. so i'm > posting it again, apologies if you're seeing it a second time.) > > over the next several weeks, i'm teaching some courses in RHEL admin > but (unsurprisingly) i'll be using centos 5.5. it's a > decently-written, 3rd party course, all the generic, standard admin > topics but it does leave me about a 1/2 day to throw in any cool stuff > i want to add. > > so, any recommendations for neat things that people here have done > in the way of what can be added to or configured on a centos server > system? the course covers all the standard topics -- installation, > package management, service management, filesystem maintenance, that > sort of thing. so i'm looking for bonus, neat stuff that others here > do as a matter of course when putting together a centos system. > > logging utilities? intrusion detection? monitoring? anything that > leaps to mind that i can use to fill up a few more hours. i'm already > thinking of showing how to build and boot a new kernel. other ideas? > thanks. I haven't read the 80+ posts in entirety, so these might have been mentioned, but three ideas that could work: 1) RHEL for the security admin, where it goes in depth on hardening RHEL, intrusion detection and intrusion prevention. 2) RHEL for storage admins, software/hardware RAID, volume management and snapshots, NFS/CIFS network file systems, FCoE/iSCSI shared block devices. 3) RHEL for the network admin, firewalls, routers, bridges, traffic shaping, route load balancing, and network traffic monitoring. I think these can be expanded out some more, and while there might be some overlap they should be each more targeted then a broad course. -Ross