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Hardware

Indepth Hardware knowledge.

Knowledge of Migrange/Highend servers

Various options of booting the server from GRUB Prompt

Upgrade Firmware of various components

Operating System

Installation and knowledge of default directory structure.

Knowledge of various run levels

Using commands like vi, cat, touch for creating files.

Use of command like grep, wc, etc.

Knowledge of various Logs, their location and  importance

Starting/Stoping the services in RHEL 3,4,5

User Administration (Add/modify/delete/lock/unlock)

Knowledge of various utility like mkfs, sar, logrotate etc.

Knowledge of fdisk utility and creating boot disk

Creation/Mounting/Unmounting File Systems

Knowledge of various fields in /etc/fstab file

Default file permissions

Manage Print Queues

Monitor System Performance

DNS Client Configuration (/etc/resolve.conf) and nslookup utility

Knowledge of Crontab utility

Managing Jobs & Processes

Knowledge of different shells available in UNIX.

Various Methods of OS Deployment (Disk,Kickstart, HTTP, FTP, NFS, Remote console)

Configuration and administration of Kickstart Server

Knowledge of various boot method, netboot, NFS, PXE etc.

Knowledge of various disk based file-systems (ext2/ext3/jfs)

Knowledge of nework based file-systems (NFS)

Knowledge of pseudo filesystems (swapfs, tempfs, cachefs)

Manage core-dumps

Good understanding of Linux boot process and init

Knowledge of Access control list

Knowledge of impletementing quota on the file-systems

SSH and GPG keys knowledge

Knowledge of Volume Manager LVM

Knowledge of Various Raid Configuration (RAID 0/1/5/0+1/1+0)

Server update/upgrade and patching

Restricting access through tcpwraper

Filtering the access using IP Tables

Configuration and administration of NFS Server

Knowledge of mounting the file-systems using AutoFS

Management and Troubleshooting of atleast one Centralised Authentication Service (NIS, NIS+, LDAP)

Basic knowledge of Apache virtual hosting

Knowledge of Online/Offline backup methods using native utilitis.

Knowledge of atleast one Cluster technology (Linux Cluster or HP Service Gurad)

Print-Server Configuration and Administration

Troubleshooting Experience

Basic Shell Scripting

FTP server administration and chrooting

Knowledge of Apache virtual hosting

Knowledge of SSL web site configuration

Kernel understanding and tuning experience

Advance knowledge on LVM and Cluster LVM

Good knowledge of RedHat Global file system or OCFS

Working knowledge on one of the mail server sendmail/exim/postfix/qmail

Advance Scripting (Bash, sed, awk and perl)

Knowledge of windows intergation

Deployment of atleast one Centralised Authentication Service (NIS, LDAP)

Advance troubleshooting skills

Network Administration

List the available network Cards

Indepth network knowledge on IP address, Netmask, Gateway, routing and MAC address.

Network tool know how (nslookup, dig, ping, ifconfig, netstat, tcpdump  etc..)Knowledge of ethtool,ifup and ifdown

Various methods of connecting to the server (Telnet/ssh/rlogin)

Basic Network Configuration

Configuration and Administration of various Utility Servers (NTP, DHCP, SAMBA)

Soft skills, Process and Compliance for all levels

Good communication

Customer intraction and gathering information

ITIL Awareness