Open Lab: Linux Basics (0.5 days)

Synopsis

Open Lab aims to provide more lab time for participants. Trainers facilitate the session, provide support and help with troubleshooting as participants try to complete the labs.

This open lab focuses on Linux Basics and includes hands-on lab exercises on Linux commands and bash scripting.

Target audience

This is an introductory topic catered for junior network/systems engineers, who wants to gain an understanding of Linux.

Prerequisites

This workshop assumes that participants have some basic understanding of networking.

Other requirements

• Hardware: It is highly recommended that participants bring their own laptop computers with Wifi(b/g/n) and administrative access to system to practice the lessons learned during the workshops.
• Software: SSH Client, Telnet Client (PuTTy)
• Confirm Secure SHell (SSH) is allowed from the office or home network to access the lab infrastructure? Test ssh connectivity, try to connect to route-views.routeviews.org. For example from the CLI type: ssh [email protected]

Course outline

• Fundamentals of Linux