Domain 6.0 Troubleshooting

This domain requires the basic knowledge and skills to identify, inspect and diagnose problems in the Linux operating system, and apply remedies using common commands and utilities.

6.1
Identify and locate the problem by determining whether the problem is hardware, operating systems, application software, configuration or the user

6.2
Describe troubleshooting best practices (ie methodology)
6.3
Examine and edito configuration files based on symptoms of a problem using systems utilities
6.4
Examine, start, and stop processes based on the signs and symptoms of a problem
6.5
Use system status tools to examine system resources and statuses (eg fsck, setserial)
6.6
Use systems boot disk(s) and root disk on workstation and sserver to diagnose and rescue file system
6.7
Inspect and determine cause of errors from system log files
6.8
Use disk utilities to solve file system problems (eg mount, umount)
6.9
Resolve problems based on user feeback (eg rights, unable to login to system, unable to print, unable to receive or transmit mail)
6.10
Recognize common errors (eg package dependencies, library errors, version conflicts)
6.11
Take appropriate action on boot errors (eg LILO, bootstrap)
6.12
Identify backup and restore errors
6.13
Identify application failure on server (eg Web page, telnet, ftp, pop3, SNMP)
6.14
Identify andj use trouble shooting commands (eg locate, find, grep, ?, <, >, >>, cat, tail)
6.15
Locate troubleshooting resources and update as allowable (eg Web, man pages, howtos, infopages LUGs)