Course contents: "eBox for Network Administrators"
eBox Platform: The Linux Small Business Server
- Presentation, Installation, Web interface administration
- How does eBox Platform work?
- Location within the network
eBox Core
- Logs configuration
- Monitoring
- Backup
- Backup configuration with eBox
- How to recover on a disaster
- Configuration backups
- Software Updates
- Management of eBox components
- System Updates & Automatic Updates
- Control Center Client
- Subscribing eBox to the Control Center
- Configuration backup to the Control Center
eBox Infrastructure
- Network configuration service (DHCP)
- DHCP server configuration with eBox
- Name resolution service (DNS)
- DNS server & cache configuration with eBox
- Web data publication service (HTTP)
- Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
- The Apache Web server
- Virtual domains
- HTTP server configuration with eBox
- Time synchronization service (NTP)
- NTP server configuration with eBox
eBox Gateway
- High-level eBox network abstractions
- Network objects & Network services
- Firewall
- The firewall in GNU/Linux: Netfilter
- eBox security model
- Routing
- Routing tables
- Multirouter rules and load balancing
- WAN Failover
- Traffic shaping
- Quality of Service (QoS)
- QoS configuration in eBox
- RADIUS
- RADIUS server configuration with eBox
- Access Point (AP) configuration
- HTTP Proxy Service
- Access policy configuration
- Client connection to the proxy and transparent mode
- Cache parameters & Web content filter
eBox Office
- Directory service (LDAP)
- File sharing service and remote authentication
- SMB/CIFS & Primary Domain Controller (PDC)
- eBox as a file server & SMB/CIFS clients configuration
- eBox as authentication server & PDC configuration
- Printers sharing service
- Groupware Service
- Groupware service settings with eBox
eBox Unified Communications
- E-Mail Service (SMTP/POP3-IMAP4)
- SMTP/POP3-IMAP4 server configuration with eBox
- SMTP, POP3, IMAP parameters
- ManageSieve client parameters
- Webmail service
- Configuring a webmail in eBox
- Instant Messaging (IM) Service (Jabber/XMPP)
- Configuring a Jabber/XMPP server & client with eBox
- Setting up Jabber MUC (Multi User Chat) rooms
- Voice over IP service
- Protocols, Codecs & Deployment
- Asterisk server configuration with eBox
- Configuring a softphone to work with eBox
- Using eBox VoIP features
eBox Unified Threat Management
- Mail Filter
- Mail filter schema in eBox
- External connection control lists
- Transparent proxy for POP3 mailboxes
- HTTP Proxy advanced configuration
- Group-based filtering (for objects) and filter profiles configuration
- Secure interconnection between local networks
- PKI, CA & VPN configuration with eBox
- Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
- Setting up IDS & alerts with eBox
eBox Internals & Appendices
- Importing configuration data
- Service Advanced Customization
- Environment for new modules development
- Bug management policy
- Patches and security updates
- Community support or commercial support
- Appendix A: Introduction to computer networks
- Appendix B: Ubuntu installation & administration console
- Appendix C: eBox on virtualized environments
- Appendix D: Using eBox as Windows Primary Domain Controller
- Appendix E: Synchronizing eBox with a Windows Active Directory Domain Controller