RH134 – Red Hat System Administration II

Description

Overview:

Building on the foundation of command-line skills covered in System Administration I, you’ll dive deeper into Red Hat Enterprise Linux to broaden your toolkit of administration skills. By the end of this course, you’ll be able to administer and troubleshoot file systems and partitioning, logical volume management, access control, and package management. After attending Red Hat System Administration I and II, you’ll be fully prepared to take the Red Hat Certified System Administration (RHCSA) exam. Exam not included. Additional terms and conditions apply–please see your Account Executive. Class available in the Bellevue, WA location only.

Prerequisite(s):

Red Hat System Administration I (RH124)

Audience:

IT professionals who have attended Red Hat System Administration I and want the skills to be full-time enterprise Linux administrators or earn RHCSA certifications

Outline:

Lesson 1: Automated installations of Red Hat? Enterprise Linux?

• Create and manage kickstart configuration files; perform installations using kickstart.

Lesson 2: Accessing the command line

• Access the command line locally and remotely; gain administrative privileges from the command line.

Lesson 3: Intermediate command-line tools

• Use hardlinks, archives and compression, and vim.

Lesson 4: Regular expressions, pipelines, and I/O redirection

• Use regular expressions to search patterns in files and output; redirect and pipe output.

Lesson 5: Network configuration and troubleshooting

• Configure network settings; troubleshoot network issues.

Lesson 6: Managing simple partitions and file systems

• Create and format simple partitions, swap partitions, and encrypt partitions.

Lesson 7: Managing flexible storage with the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)

• Implement LVM and LVM snapshots.

Lesson 8: Accessing network file-sharing services; NFS and CIFS

• Implement NFS, CIFS, and autofs.

Lesson 9: Managing user accounts

• Manage user accounts, including password aging.

Lesson 10: Network user accounts with LDAP

• Connect to a central LDAP directory service.

Lesson 11: Controlling access to files

• Manage group memberships, file permissions, and access control lists (ACL).

Lesson 12: Managing SELinux

• Activate and deactivate SELinux; set file contexts; manage SELinux booleans; analyze SELinux logs.

Lesson 13: Installing and managing software

• Manage software and query information with yum; configure client-side yum repository files.

Lesson 14: Managing installed services

• Managing services; verify connectivity to a service.

Lesson 15: Analyzing and storing logs

• Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate.

Lesson 16: Managing processes

• Identify and terminate processes, change the priority of a process, and use cron and at to schedule processes.

Lesson 17: Tuning and maintaining the kernel

• List, load, and remove modules; use kernel arguments.

Lesson 18: System recovery techniques

• Understand the boot process and resolve boot problems.