Red Hat System Administration II RHEL6 with Exam

Prerequisites:

Attendance of Red Hat System Administration I.

Course Description:

Red Hat System Administration II with RHCSA Exam (RH135) is designed for IT professionals working to become a full-time enterprise Linux system administrator. The course is a follow on to System Administration I, and continues to utilizes today's best-of-breed contemporary teaching methodology. Students will be actively engaged in task focused activities, lab based knowledge checks and facilitative discussions to ensure maximum skills transfer and retention. Building on the foundation of command line skills covered in System Administration I, students will dive deeper into Red Hat Enterprise Linux to broaden their "tool kit" of administration skills. By the end of this five day course, students will be able to administer file systems and partitioning, logical volume management, access control, package management and troubleshooting best practices. Students who attend Red Hat System Administration I & II will be fully prepared to take the Red Hat Certified System Administration (RHCSA) exam.

This course includes the following modules:

Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• Objective: Create and manage kickstart configuration files; perform installations using kickstart

Accessing the Command Line

• Objective: Access the command line locally and remotely; gain administration privileges from the command line

Intermediate Command Line Tools

• Objective: Use hardlinks; use archives and compression; use vim

Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection

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

Network Configuration and Troubleshooting

• Objective: Configure network settings; troubleshoot network issues

Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems

• Objective: Create and format simple partitions, swap partitions and encrypted partitions

Managing Flexible Storage with Logical Volumes

• Objective: Implement LVM and LVM snapshots

Access Network File Sharing Services

• Objective: NFS, CIFS and autofs

Managing User Accounts

• Objective: Manage user accounts including password aging; connect to a central LDAP directory service

Controlling Access to Files

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

Managing SELinux

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

Installing and Managing Software

• Objective: Manage software and query information with yum, configure client-side yum repository files

Managing Installed Services

• Objective: Managing services, verify connectivity to a service

Analyzing and Storing Logs

• Objective: Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate

Managing Processes

• Objective: Identify and terminal processes, change the priority of a process, use cron and at to schedule processes

Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel

• Objective: List, load, and remove modules; use kernel arguments

Troubleshooting

• Objective: Understand the boot process, resolve boot problems