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Practical, instructor-led technical labs designed to build real muscle memory for network connectivity and remote server management.

Track Code: FL-101

MobaXterm for Network Engineers & Support Technicians

Audience: Help Desk Technicians, Field Network Engineers, Junior Sysadmins

$350
3 Weeks • 12 Contact Hours

Tired of juggling separate PuTTY, FileZilla, and command-line windows? This workshop teaches you how to streamline your entire daily connection workflow inside MobaXterm. Learn how to configure tabbed sessions for SSH, Telnet, Serial consoles, and RDP, manage authentication keys safely, and rapidly deploy files using the integrated graphical SFTP browser.

Hands-on Lab Exercises:

Lab 1: Session Hierarchy Setup

Building an organized tree of production, staging, and switch sessions, setting custom tab colors, and configuring auto-login credentials securely.

Lab 2: SSH Key Generation & Agent

Creating Ed25519 keypairs in MobaKeygen, loading keys into MobAgent, and disabling cleartext password authentication on remote servers.

Lab 3: Remote SFTP & File Sync

Navigating remote Linux directory trees with the automatic SFTP dock, editing configuration files directly with Windows editors, and verifying hashes.

Prerequisites: None. Suitable for complete beginners to remote terminal tools. Register for FL-101
Track Code: FL-202

Remote Server Management & Linux Administration Lab

Audience: Aspiring Linux Sysadmins, Web Developers, Technical Support Staff

$480
4 Weeks • 16 Contact Hours

Learn how to manage and maintain remote production servers. Students log into live cloud Linux droplets using MobaXterm, learn how to manage user access and permissions, inspect live process utilization with top and htop, configure network interfaces, troubleshoot service failures with systemctl and journalctl, and write reliable backup scripts.

Hands-on Lab Exercises:

Lab 1: System Permissions & Security

Creating system user accounts, configuring sudoers privileges, managing file ownership (chown), and setting strict octal permissions (chmod 600/700).

Lab 2: Service Troubleshooting

Diagnosing failing Nginx, Apache, and SSH services, analyzing error logs in /var/log, and using netstat/ss to trace listening ports.

Lab 3: Shell Automation & Cron

Authoring Bash scripts to archive server logs, synchronize files across remote nodes with rsync, and automate daily execution via crontab.

Prerequisites: Completion of FL-101 or basic command-line familiarity. Register for FL-202
Track Code: FL-303

Multi-Execution, SSH Tunneling & Advanced Automation

Audience: DevOps Engineers, Senior Network Administrators, Cloud Specialists

$520
4 Weeks • 16 Contact Hours

Unlock the advanced automation tools built into MobaXterm. Learn how to dispatch commands simultaneously to an entire cluster using the Multi-Execution mode, build local and remote port tunnels to securely access firewalled databases, configure intermediate jump hosts (bastions), and launch graphical Linux desktop applications seamlessly onto Windows screens via the integrated X11 server.

Hands-on Lab Exercises:

Lab 1: Multi-Execution Cluster Sync

Connecting to 6 remote server nodes at once, broadcasting security patches simultaneously, and establishing safety safeguards to avoid syntax errors.

Lab 2: Advanced Port Forwarding & SOCKS5

Building SSH tunnels to reach internal web panels and databases located behind private cloud VPC subnets without allocating public IP addresses.

Lab 3: X11 Forwarding & GUI Tools

Configuring MobaXterm's built-in X11 server to display remote graphical Linux utilities (Wireshark, virt-manager, GParted) on local Windows desktops.

Prerequisites: FL-202 or equivalent remote Linux terminal experience. Register for FL-303