Pro Ubuntu Server Administration

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

• Monitor Ubuntu Server software and the hardware it is running on.
• Make Ubuntu Server fly by careful optimization.
• Learn how to craft high–availability clusters.
• Ease your way into large–scale LDAP networking.
• Acquire the skills to adjust Ubuntu Server to the security needs of a Fortune 500 environment.
• Run your own Ubuntu application server.

Anyone who administers Linux servers and wants to know enough about Ubuntu to make it fly.

Building on lessons taught in Beginning Ubuntu Server Administration, Sander van Vugt’s newest book Pro Ubuntu Server Administration teaches advanced Ubuntu system building. Topics covered include managing simple file servers, virtual servers, performance monitoring and optimization, high-availability clusters, and advanced LDAP integrated networking.

Ubuntu continues to lead the market in Linux server deployments—it currently has ¼ of the market; which is a much larger share than both SUSE and Red Hat. This is a necessary title for system administrators that need intermediate-advanced networking techniques.

Sander van Vugt is an independent trainer and consultant, living in the Netherlands and working throughout the European Union. He specializes in Linux and Novell systems, and has worked with both for over ten years. Besides being a trainer, he is also an author, having written more than 20 books and hundreds of technical articles. He is a Master Certified Novell Instructor (MCNI) and holds LPIC-1 and -2 certificates, as well as all important Novell certificates.