Course Overview

The Plesk for Linux Administration course is designed to educate participants about Parallels Plesk Expand hosting automation product, including its features, functions, installation, configuration, and maintenance. The course contains extensive hands-on lab training. Participants will learn how to install and configure Plesk Expand and Plesk agent with various options, explore different operating modes, perform various tasks like in real hosting provider’s life such as registration of Plesk servers, 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

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 Expand main features.

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

• Managing Plesk Expand Server
  General configuration. Administrator account. Objects relationship. Administering IP ranges.

• Managing Plesk Servers
  Management operations. Plesk server registration. Plesk servers administration. Administering Plesk IP pools.

• Client Management
  Management operations. Client creation. Client template. Client administration. IP pool administration.

• Domain management
  Main Operations. Domain Creation and Configuration. Domain templates. Domain user. Domain hosting.

• System maintenance
  System State Monitoring. Monitoring and changing service Status. Monitoring server resource usage. License management. Viewing the installed components information.

Lab Exercises

• Installation
  • Pre-Installation
  • Installation Procedure
  • Post-Installation
• Server Administration
  • General Configuration
  • Adding IP Range
• Plesk Servers Administration
  • Plesk Server Registration
  • Administrative Operations
• Client Administration
  • Adding a Client
  • Client Configuration
  • Adding a Client Template
  • Adding a Template based Client
• Domain Administration
  • Adding a Domain
  • Domain Configuration
  • Adding a Domain Template
  • Adding a Template based Domain
• System Maintenance
  • System State Monitoring
  • Working with Action Log

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 administrators who will use several Plesk servers 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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