RH401/EX401 Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management With Exam

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Course Length:

5 Days

Course Description:

Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management is a 5-day intensive hands-on lab course in skills and methods critical to large-scale deployment and management of mission-critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems; network service failover and load-balancing; CVS for system administrators; construction of custom RPMs. The EX401 exam is administered on the 5th day.

Who Should Attend:

RH401 is aimed at senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals working in enterprise environments and mission-critical systems.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Deploy and manage Red Hat systems to enterprise standards of reliability, availability, scalability and manageability (RASM).
• Implement and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments efficiently and effectively in ways that make the entire enterprise deployment manageable by a team.

Prerequisites:

RH401 requires RHCE-level skills. The RHCE certificate on 7.1 or higher is recommended but not required. Prerequisite skills can be evidenced by passing the RHCE Exam in either RH302, RH300, or by taking RH253 or comparable skills and knowledge.

Course Outline:

• Chapter 1: Installation Of A Red Hat Network Satellite Server
  1. Features of the RHN Satellite Server
  2. RHN Satellite Server topologies
  3. RHN Satellite Server hardware requirements
  4. Understanding Channels
  5. Installing an RHN Satellite Server
  6. Populating an RHN Satellite Server
  7. Troubleshooting an RHN Satellite Server installation
• Chapter 2: Construction Of Custom RPM Packages
  1. Pros and cons of building custom RPM packages
  2. Setting up a non-privileged build directory
  3. Using RPM macros
  4. Writing custom spec files
  5. Using rpmbuild to create and sign RPMs
  6. RPM construction best practices
• Chapter 3: Use Of CVS To Manage Configuration Files
  1. Basics of CVS for system administrators
  2. Implementing local and remote repository access
  3. CVS and security
  4. Structuring a CVS project
  5. Using CVS to track, log, and reverse configuration changes
• Chapter 4: Red Hat Network Satellite Server Management
  1. Types of RHN users
  2. Configuring a client to use an RHN Satellite Server
  3. Creating and managing custom channels
• Chapter 5: Red Hat Network Management And Provisioning: Deployment
  1. Elements of a deployment system
  2. Use of custom channels in a deployment system
  3. Using configuration channels to maintain system configuration
  4. Automating installations through kickstart
• Chapter 6: Software Management With Red Hat Network Proxy Server
  1. Hosted RHN versus Proxy Server
  2. Proxy Server software and hardware requirements
  3. Installing RHN Proxy Server
  4. Configuring clients to use a RHN Proxy Server
  5. Deploying locally built RPMs through custom RHN channels
• Chapter 7: High-availability Network Load Balancing Clusters
  1. Implementing load balancing network service clusters with Piranha
  2. Using the Piranha configuration interface
  3. Handling complex services with persistence and firewall marks
• Chapter 8: High-availability Application Failover Clusters
  1. Understanding the Red Hat Cluster Manager
  2. Cluster hardware requirements
  3. Implementing a two-node failover cluster
  4. Implementing NFS, Samba, and custom failover services
  5. Failover domains: Active/Active and Active/Passive configurations
  6. Monitoring and maintaining cluster operation
  7. Integrating failover and load balancing clusters