Monitoring of CPU usage, memory usage, FS and network interfaces IO stats
Monitoring firewall activity
Audit of bandwidth consumption per user
Analysis of problems related to lack of resources
Analysis of congestion risks
Load tests
Planning of resource requirements
Use of Nagios, cacti, MRTG monitoring tools

Workshop: simultaneously conduct a monitoring system and stress tests

Kernel 2.6.x and 3.x
Compiling the kernel
Managing the makefile
Configuring compilation parameters
Installing a kernel and its modules
Using dracut
The kernel administration commands
Managing modules

Workshop: compiling your own kernel

Syst V and LSB
common bootloaders: LILO, GRUB
initialization of hardware elements
Starting daemons
Configuration of boot files
Knowledge of UEFI

Workshop: create an à la carte runlevel

Configuration of the fstab
Use of UUIDs
Configuration of the SWAP space 

Journaled file systems 

Local and encrypted FS
FS management tools
Optical media, CD-ROM, DVD

Workshop: create and resize several FS

RAID from 1 to 5
Configure and manage LVM
Device management tools 

RAID management tools

LVM management tools

Workshop: install a RAID configuration

Interface management tools

Address management tools
Routing table configuration
Network traffic monitoring

Network trafic analysis tools

Workshop: exploiting the network in a complex situation

Archiving management

Archiving tools
Common archiving solutions

Workshop: install an archiving solution

Passing the certification (if provided for in the funding)