VM503 z/VM, CMS, and Linux for System z Basics

z/VM, CMS, and Linux for System z Basics - Topical Outline

Day One

VM Overview

Logging On

The Directory

The Spool

Basic Commands

The CMS File System

Sharing Another User's Files

Editing Files

Customizing Your System

Communicating with Other Users

The Help System

Programming Under CMS

Day Two

Linux Overview

Evolution of Linux

Open Source

A Little zSeries History

The Concepts of a Real Machine

A Little VM History

The Concepts of a Virtual Machine

How Linux and VM Got Together

VM to Linux Translations

Linux Benefits

Linux, z/VM & System z Hardware

Linux Guest Configuration

DASD Device Names

Formatting DASD for Linux

SLES 10 Linux Installation

Day Three

Emulating Control Characters

There's Help, with man

Linux Distributions

Linux Features

Linux Environment

Logging in, Logging out

The root user

The command prompt

BASH Scripts, alias synonyms

Managing Linux userids

Linux log files

Editing; A quick look at vi

Configuration Files

File Permissions

Using make

Getting Out of a Fix

Linux Releases

File Systems

File and Directory Navigation

Copying Files

Moving Files

Scheduling with cron

z/VM Hosting

TCP/IP Configuration on z/VM

Exploiting z/VM and zSeries Features for Linux

Connectivity

Networking (OSA Express, HiperSockets)

Virtual networking (IUCV, CTCA, Guest LAN, Virtual Switch)

Network security issues

Perl

Email: sendmail, qmail

Web serving: Apache

File and Print serving: Samba

File system sharing: NFS

Network services monitoring: Hobbit

Web application development: PHP, Mono

VM503 / 3 Days

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