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    • JaredBuschJ
      JaredBusch @antonit
      last edited by JaredBusch

      @antonit said:

      Hello!

      I wanted to reach out to the community as I just got laid off at my job as a Windows/VMWare system admin. I currently have an opportunity to take on a role as a Linux/Xen admin but the company is reluctant to hire me as it has been about 7 years since I was heavily engulfed in the *NIX world. They are bringing me in for a technical interview next week to see how I measure up. Until then, I really want to sharpen my skills, and so am looking for a project to work on that'll give me all the basics and some advanced knowledge to bring it all back to me.

      Any suggestions on a project(s) are welcome!

      Antoni

      Setup XS, the trial of XOA, then spin up some CentoOS 7 virtual machines for tasks like a web server, proxy server, or even an ELK log system.

      Tutorials all on various places of this board. Search the how to tag

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      • DustinB3403D
        DustinB3403
        last edited by DustinB3403

        I would say ignore XOA and use XO.

        Xen Orchestra Applicance, verses Xen Orchestra (from the sources)

        mangolassi.it/tags/how to

        But yeah those are good starting points.

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        • scottalanmillerS
          scottalanmiller
          last edited by

          Monitoring is a good one that is a bit more involved than a typical setup. Zabbix, Zenoss, Nagios, etc. And Grafana is very nice as a portfolio project.

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          • antonitA
            antonit
            last edited by

            Since the company that I interviewed with is running Zabbix, maybe I should try that.

            Thanks everybody for these fantastic ideas!

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            • JaredBuschJ
              JaredBusch @DustinB3403
              last edited by

              @DustinB3403 said:

              I would say ignore XOA and use XO.

              Xen Orchestra Applicance, verses Xen Orchestra (from the sources)

              mangolassi.it/tags/how to

              But yeah those are good starting points.

              link fail.

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              • DustinB3403D
                DustinB3403 @JaredBusch
                last edited by

                @JaredBusch Yeah I tried it with the hyperlink bit, and it did this

                [How To](mangolassi.it/tags/how to)

                ... so it doesn't work. lol

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                • JaredBuschJ
                  JaredBusch @DustinB3403
                  last edited by

                  @DustinB3403 said:

                  @JaredBusch Yeah I tried it with the hyperlink bit, and it did this

                  [How To](mangolassi.it/tags/how to)

                  ... so it doesn't work. lol

                  kind of sad the built in parser cannot handle spaces.

                  http://mangolassi.it/tags/how to

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                  • scottalanmillerS
                    scottalanmiller
                    last edited by

                    http://mangolassi.it/tags/how to

                    If you copy and paste right from the URL, it works.

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                    • StrongBadS
                      StrongBad
                      last edited by

                      Something like ELK, Splunk or Greylog would be good experiences.

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                      • MattSpellerM
                        MattSpeller
                        last edited by

                        Hello! That's a snazzy bow tie!!

                        Sorry to hear about the job, opportunity sounds pretty good though.

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                          Alex Sage
                          last edited by Alex Sage

                          Wow, NodeBB makes ugly links

                          http://mangolassi.it/tags/how%20to
                          

                          It would be much better to replace spaces with "-" like wordpress does:

                          Eg: http://mangolassi.it/tags/how-to
                          
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                          • antonitA
                            antonit @MattSpeller
                            last edited by

                            @MattSpeller Thanks for the kind words! Yeah at my last job, I used to wear a bowtie every Wednesday (bowtie wednesday) to spice things up in the dep't. This next opportunity should be killer!

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                              Alex Sage
                              last edited by

                              @scottalanmiller posted this link:

                              https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxadmin/comments/2s924h/how_did_you_get_your_start/cnnw1ma

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @antonit
                                last edited by

                                @antonit said:

                                @MattSpeller Thanks for the kind words! Yeah at my last job, I used to wear a bowtie every Wednesday (bowtie wednesday) to spice things up in the dep't. This next opportunity should be killer!

                                You need to make that your avatar.

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                                • scottalanmillerS
                                  scottalanmiller
                                  last edited by

                                  Other ideas... IRC server inside the lab and a StatusNET system.

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                                  • scottalanmillerS
                                    scottalanmiller
                                    last edited by

                                    An OpenFire 4.x server would be good, too.

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                                    • RamblingBipedR
                                      RamblingBiped @antonit
                                      last edited by

                                      @antonit Having some Python/BASH scripting examples for basic tasks might not be a bad idea. You could chuck them out on github and pull them down for demo/explanation in realtime. Might earn some brownie points...

                                      I don't know much about the environment, but knowing your way around a couple of popular version control systems might be helpful as well. You could build your own Subversion and Git servers for hosting repositories.

                                      You might also look at implementing an instance of Redmine for project management.

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                                      • scottalanmillerS
                                        scottalanmiller
                                        last edited by

                                        He is building out a MariaDB server right now.

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                                        • StrongBadS
                                          StrongBad
                                          last edited by

                                          What about something such as a satellite server?

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                                          • antonitA
                                            antonit
                                            last edited by

                                            Thank you all for your suggestions! Very helpful..... I've actually started working on a Zabbix server with the database sitting on a second server.

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