Red Hat Linux System Administration (no exam)

Prerequisites:

RH033 Red Hat Linux Essentials or equivlent experience with Red Hat Linux.
To assist you in determining whether you have equivalent experience, please take the RH133 Pre-assessment Questionnaire.

Course Description:

This course is for or users of Linux (or UNIX) who want to start building skills in systems administration on Red Hat Linux, to a level where they can attach and configure a workstation on an existing network. See complete details below.

Leads to certification
RHCT – Red Hat Certified Technician

Delegates will learn:

• System Initialisation
• Package Management
• Kernel Services
• System Services
• User Administration
• Filesystem Management
• Advanced Filesystem Management
• Network Configuration
• Installation
• Virtualisation with Xen Troubleshooting

This course includes the following modules:

Administrative Access

• Configure and access various consoles directly, remotely with ssh, and with virt-manager.
• Configure privilege escalation with sudo.

Package Management

• Manage software on system using yum, Red Hat Network, and rpm.

System Services and Security

• Configure and manage system logging, time synchronization, printers, and task automation.
• Troubleshoot SELinux.

System Initialization

• Define boot process, recover system, and manage service startup.

Kernel Monitoring and Configuration

• Explore kernel modules and variants, tune kernel parameters, manage devices, and monitor processes and resources.

Network Configuration

• Configure dynamic and static network settings for IPv4 and filter packets.

Filesystem Administration

• Review filesystem management concepts, removable media and configure NFS shares with autofs.

Additional Storage

• Expand storage by adding new filesystems and swap space.

User Administration

• Create, modify and delete users, groups, and policy.
• Protect users and groups with quotas.

Filesystems for Group Collaboration

• Establish collaborative group directories.
• Protect users and groups with ACLs.

Centralized User Administration

• Revisit user administration by connecting to network directory services like NIS and LDAP.

Software RAID

• Manage filesystems using Software RAID and recover an array.

Logical Volume Management

• Manage filesystems using Logical Volume Management.
• Resize filesystems and protect them with LVM Snapshots.

Virtualization and Automated Installation

• Perform automated installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Create para-virtualized user domains in Xen.

Troubleshooting with Rescue Mode

• Explore troubleshooting methodologies.
• Utilize the rescue environment of anaconda.