Zope System Administration Training

The Zope Systems Administration Training proposed by Six Feet Up is a three day event. It is usually set up at our clients' location and can be tweaked to specific needs. Here's a brief outline of the standard course.

Day 1

- Presentation of Six Feet Up; Presenter's Backgound
- Overview of Zope and Plone
- General Systems Administrations
            - System Sizing
            - OS Selection
            - Installation of Zope and Plone
            - Configuration
            - Logging
            - Backup using repozo
            - Security
- Using Supervisor to control Zope
- Web Server (Apache)
            - Configuration
            - Tuning
- Load balancing with Pound
       

Day 2

- CacheFu
            - Squid: Configuration & Security
            - Zope Integration
            - Cache Invalidation
- Integrating Zope/Plone with LDAP directories
- Migrating data between instances
            - Marshall
            - Splitting Data.fs files up
- Upgrading Plone to new versions
       

Day 3

- Cron and Scripting Zope Administration
- repozo Backup and Restore
- Tuning Zope
- Debugging Zope
- Monitoring Zope
            - Monitoring HTTP
            - Checking ZODB
            - Functional Tests
- Conclusion