Course contents: "Zentyal for Network Administrators"

Zentyal: The Linux Small Business Server

  • Presentation, Installation, Web interface administration
  • How does Zentyal work?
  • Location within the network

Zentyal Core

  • Logs configuration
  • Monitoring
    • Metrics, Events & Alerts
  • Backup
    • Backup configuration with Zentyal
    • How to recover on a disaster
    • Configuration backups
  • Software Updates
    • Management of Zentyal components
    • System Updates & Automatic Updates
  • Zentyal Cloud client
    • Subscribing Zentyal server to the Zentyal cloud
    • Configuration backup to the Zentyal cloud

Zentyal Infrastructure

  • Network configuration service (DHCP)
    • DHCP server configuration with Zentyal
  • Name resolution service (DNS)
    • DNS server & cache configuration with Zentyal
  • Web data publication service (HTTP)
    • Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
    • The Apache Web server
    • Virtual domains
    • HTTP server configuration with Zentyal
  • Time synchronization service (NTP)
    • NTP server configuration with Zentyal

Zentyal Gateway

  • High-level Zentyal network abstractions
    • Network objects & Network services
  • Firewall
    • The firewall in GNU/Linux: Netfilter
    • Zentyal security model
  • Routing
    • Routing tables
    • Multirouter rules and load balancing
    • WAN Failover
  • Traffic shaping
    • Quality of Service (QoS)
    • QoS configuration in Zentyal
  • RADIUS
    • RADIUS server configuration with Zentyal
    • Access Point (AP) configuration
  • HTTP Proxy Service
    • Access policy configuration
    • Client connection to the proxy and transparent mode
    • Cache parameters & Web content filter

Zentyal Office

  • Directory service (LDAP)
    • Users and groups
  • File sharing service and remote authentication
    • SMB/CIFS & Primary Domain Controller (PDC)
    • Zentyal as a file server & SMB/CIFS clients configuration
    • Zentyal as authentication server & PDC configuration
  • Printers sharing service
  • Groupware Service
    • Groupware service settings with Zentyal

Zentyal Unified Communications

  • E-Mail Service (SMTP/POP3-IMAP4)
    • SMTP/POP3-IMAP4 server configuration with Zentyal
    • SMTP, POP3, IMAP parameters
    • ManageSieve client parameters
  • Webmail service
    • Configuring a webmail in Zentyal
  • Instant Messaging (IM) Service (Jabber/XMPP)
    • Configuring a Jabber/XMPP server & client with Zentyal
    • Setting up Jabber MUC (Multi User Chat) rooms
  • Voice over IP service
    • Protocols, Codecs & Deployment
    • Asterisk server configuration with Zentyal
    • Configuring a softphone to work with Zentyal
    • Using Zentyal VoIP features

Zentyal Unified Threat Management

  • Mail Filter
    • Mail filter schema in Zentyal
    • 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 Zentyal
  • Intrusion Detection System (IDS)
    • Setting up IDS & alerts with Zentyal

Zentyal 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: Zentyal on virtualized environments
  • Appendix D: Using Zentyal as Windows Primary Domain Controller
  • Appendix E: Synchronizing Zentyal with a Windows Active Directory Domain Controller