server admin activities for an Asst. Admin

Excerpts from my reply to a colleague in a sister institution who had joined recently and wanted to get up to speed with his duties - 

These are the activities I have done to help the LMS team - 

1. Setting DNS records in Cloudflare - 

https://ns1.com/resources/dns-types-records-servers-and-queries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare

https://support.cloudflare.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019093151-Managing-DNS-records-in-Cloudflare

The DNS records are currently handled by V----, I help him when needed.

2. Helping with load testing for servername.our.domain - R--- did most of the work - 

https://hnsws.blogspot.com/2020/12/load-testing-moodle-server-log-in-with.html

https://docs.moodle.org/310/en/Performance_recommendations#Hardware_configuration

Please see the test reports made by Prof. S----- and R-----.

3. Setting up SSL (https) using bitnami's tool - bncert-tool

https://hnsws.blogspot.com/2020/12/location-of-apache-configuration-files.html

In case the machine in question is not a bitnami VM,

https://hnsws.blogspot.com/2020/11/setting-up-letsencrypt-certificates-for.html

https://certbot.eff.org/

4. For doing the above (point 3.), you will need to know how to use the command-line, and how to use ssh - 

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/isd/what-ssh-and-how-do-i-use-it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PuTTY

https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/faq.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/putty.html

5. If you are not familiar with the Linux terminal (command-line), 

https://www.google.com/search?q=getting+started+with+the+linux+command+line