Two day course
Duration: 16 hours (2 days)
Course materials: Student’s Guide, Student’s Lab Guide
Certification: Parallels certificate

Course Overview

The Parallels Plesk Control Panel for Linux/Unix Administration Course is designed to train participants on Plesk for Linux/Unix hosting automation product. The training highlights the product’s features, functions, installation, configuration, and maintenance. The course contains extensive hands-on lab training. Participants will learn how to install and configure Plesk for Linux with various options, explore different operating modes, and perform various tasks similar to those faced by hosting providers everyday such as creating and setting up client accounts, domains, and domain users, setting and configuring hosting services.

• Course Content
• Lab Exercises
• Prerequisites
• Who will benefit from this course

Course Content

The course is divided into several modules accompanied with appropriate lab training. Most modules contain topics with subject descriptions followed by on-screen demonstrations. At the end of topics, participants will be evaluated on the subjects learned.

• Introduction to Plesk
  Introduction to hosting service. Plesk family introduction. Plesk for Linux/Unix main features.

• Installation
  Hardware and software resource requirements. Installation and post-installation procedures. Multilingual support. Plesk licensing.

• Product Overview
  Plesk management structure. Accounts and permissions. Domains and services. Access to Plesk Control Panel. Control Panel preferences and settings. User interface preferences. Interface Skin. Interface management. Session settings. MyPlesk portal.

• Server Level Management
  Rebooting/shutting down the server. System time. Administrator account management. SSL certificates. IP addresses. Host Skeleton. Services management. DNS Zone template. Server-wide mail settings.

• Client Account Management
  Managing the client’s IP pool. Client account status. Editing limitations and permissions for a client account. Client template. Host Skeleton.

• Domain Management
  Main Operations. Domain creation and configuration. Domain templates. Limitations for a domain. Sub-domains. DNS Zone configuration. Editing DNS database. Configuring the domain administrator.

• Configuring Hosting Services
  Web hosting types. Setting up Physical Hosting. Web users. Sub-domains. File management. Protected directories.

• Security System
  Managing secure channels with the help of SSL and certificates. Certificate management. Generating a Certificate-Signing Request. Uploading a certificate. Assigning a certificate to domain. Protection from spam. MAPS.

• Network Services, Databases, and Applications
  Database administration. Installation and management of various network applications on a hosted domain. Server Application Vault. Domain Application Vault. Mail service. Post Office functions. Creating mail-boxes. Task management.

• System Maintenance
  System state monitoring. Monitoring and changing service status. Monitoring server resource usage. License management. Viewing the installed components information. Notification system. Logging facilities. Domain backup and restore. Submitting a support request.

Lab Exercises

• Installation
  • Pre-Installation
  • Installation Procedure
  • Post-Installation
• Introduction to Control Panel
  • Navigation
  • Control Panel Customization
• Manage Your Server
  • Managing IP Pools
  • Service Management
  • Task Scheduling
• Managing Clients
  • Creating a new Client
  • Allocating IP addresses
  • Disabling a Client Account
  • Creating a client template
  • Creating a Client based on a Template
  • Setting Limits
• Managing Domains
  • Creating a new Domain Template
  • Adding a new Domain
  • Setting new Limits for a Domain
  • Configuring a Domain User Account
• Hosting Setup
  • Setting up Web Hosting
  • Adding a new Web User
  • Creating a new sub-domain
• Managing Certificates
  • Generating self-signed SSL Certificate
  • Generating a Certificate-Signing Request for SSL Certificate
  • Uploading an SSL certificate to the repository
• Managing Services, Databases and Applications
  • Mail Settings
  • Creating a Mailbox
  • Mailing List
• System Maintenance
  • Creating a domain backup file
  • Restoring a domain from a backup file

Prerequisites

The attendees should be familiar with the following subjects.

• Principles of Linux/Unix administration
• Internet hosting industry technologies, tasks and procedures including:
  • IP technology basics,
  • Domain Name Services,
  • Internet Services, Databases, and Applications.

Who will benefit from this course

This course is intended for people who will use Plesk to solve every day tasks, such as adding, configuring, and removing accounts, configuring services as well as the server. They can be:

• Internet Hosting Providers,
• Internet Hosting Resellers,
• Enterprise Network Administrators responsible for Internet Presence

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