On Fri, 2003-07-18 at 09:37, Gregory D. Rosenberg wrote: > These are loose thoughts, but might be worthy of consideration. > > Clustering > high-availability (which could fit into high-end systems, but > doesn't necessarily always belong there.) > Fail-over configuration > Load sharing configuration > Load balanced configuration
Yes, these are the thoughts that I had, when I grouped them all into the high-end/high-availability certification group. As you mention, some of them are not likely to be confined to high-end systems, but I think they predominantly dwell there at this stage. Similarly, related areas such as RAID, iSCSI etc could looked at also. > > Advanced networking could also include routing protocols. (routed, > gated, ...)I have > seen several situations where it was necessary to run gated in order > for a host to > participate in a complex OSPF environment. Although I personally > prefer to leave > routing protocols to real routers when possible. But like it or not > all hosts participate > in routing to some degree. Actually, this is an important area for this certification I would think. I too have experienced the need to setup gated/zebra etc to handle different network routing from time to time. I believe it should be included here. > How about managing complex heterogeneous server farms. We all have our > favorite > flavors of *nix, but many applications dictate specific *nix OS or > specific distros. > Oracle for example may run on a very wide number of OSs, but performs > best or is > most stable on OSs suchs as (SuSE Linux, Sun Solaris, ...) The point > here is that > frequently we are forced to live with mixtures of operating systems > for technical or > political reasons. The knowledge to know best practices for Linux to > coexist and > integrate into such complex environments is quite essential. > Especially when we > raise issues of security, performance, and protocol co-existance. This part I am a bit more cautious about. Not that we dont need to have this knowledge or experience, just that I think this should be covered at the Level 2 certification of the "Senior" sysadmin. I have already had to setup numerous networks or adaptations for mixing of Linux, Unix, Apple, Windows etc. Is that what you are meaning here, or have I got it wrong? Regards -- Jonathon Coombes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Lpi-examdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.lpi.org/mailman/listinfo/lpi-examdev
