Course Length:

4 Days

Course Description:

This class is for users of Linux (or UNIX) who want to start building skills in systems administration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to a level where they can attach and configure a workstation on an existing network.

Who Should Attend:

This course is for Linux or UNIX users, who understand the basics of Red Hat Linux, that desire further technical training to begin the process of becoming a system administrator.

Benefits of Attendance:

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

• Install, configure, and attach a new Red Hat Linux workstation to an existing network.

Prerequisites:

Students should have taken RH033 Red Hat Linux Essentials or have equivalent experience with Red Hat Linux.

Course Outline:

• Administrative Access
  1. Configure and access various consoles directly, remotely with ssh, and with virt-manager.
  2. Configure privilege escalation with sudo.
• Package Management
  1. Manage software on system using yum, Red Hat Network, and rpm.
• System Services and Security
  1. Configure and manage system logging, time synchronization, printers, and task automation.
  2. Troubleshoot SELinux.
• System Initialization
  1. Define boot process, recover system, and manage service startup.
• Kernel Monitoring and Configuration
  1. Explore kernel modules and variants, tune kernel parameters, manage devices, and monitor processes and resources.
• Network Configuration
  1. Configure dynamic and static network settings for IPv4 and filter packets.
• Filesystem Administration
  1. Review filesystem management concepts, removable media and configure NFS shares with autofs.
• Additional Storage
  1. Expand storage by adding new filesystems and swap space.
• User Administration
  1. Create, modify and delete users, groups, and policy.
  2. Protect users and groups with quotas.
• Filesystems for Group Collaboration
  1. Establish collaborative group directories.
  2. Protect users and groups with ACLs.
• Centralized User Administration
  1. Revisit user administration by connecting to network directory services like NIS and LDAP.
• Software RAID
  1. Manage filesystems using Software RAID and recover an array.
• Logical Volume Management
  1. Manage filesystems using Logical Volume Management.
  2. Resize filesystems and protect them with LVM Snapshots.
• Virtualization and Automated Installation
  1. Perform automated installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  2. Create para-virtualized user domains in Xen.
• Troubleshooting with Rescue Mode
  1. Explore troubleshooting methodologies.
  2. Utilize the rescue environment of anaconda.