Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II

This highly practical instructor led Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the administration of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system.  With a strong emphasis on practical hands on training, this course will teach further essential administrative tasks required to successfully administer a Red Hat Linux system.

Targeted to closely follow the official Red Hat certification curriculum, this course together with the Administering Red Hat System Linux - Part I course will enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) qualification.

In addition, by attending the Administering Red Hat System Administration - Part I & Part II courses together with the Administrating Red Hat Linux - Part III course, will enable the attendee to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) qualification.

The delegate will have knowledge in all, and practice in some, of the following:

• Automate a system install using Kickstart
• Use switch user command
• Understand hard and symbolic links
• Use vim to edit text files
• Use further piping and redirection techniques
• Search files and output using regular expressions
• Create Partitions, Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
• Extend and decrease Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
• Extend file systems
• Implement and use LVM snapshots
• Backup, Restoring and Compressing files
• Access a Network File System (NFS) Server
• Configure autofs
• Use CIFS
• Manage password ageing
• Managing groups, extended file permissions and Access Control Lists
• SELinux context types and management commands
• Manage software using YUM and configure software repositories
• Process scheduling and control
• Manage kernel modules
• Manage and configure system logging
• Troubleshooting and disaster recovery

This Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II course is suitable for anyone who has acquired basic administration skills from attending the Administering Red Hat Linux - Part I course.  This will include novice System Administrators, Network administrators, Programmers and other technical IT staff who need to acquire knowledge of the key administration tasks required to administer a Red Hat Linux system.

This course will teach many of the necessary skills to enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification followed by the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification.  The course assumes knowledge of the Red Hat Linux operating system to the level covered in the Administering Red Hat Linux - Part I course.

On completion of this Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II course the delegate will have gained practical experience of the Linux commands, the GUI's and posses the technical knowledge required to perform System Administration tasks.

The delegate will gain the essential knowledge required to study towards the official Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) and the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification routes.

Before taking any exam, ensure you have the recommended experience.  The Red Hat website lists all exam requirements and these are updated regularly.

Exams are not included as part of the course.

• Administering Red Hat Linux - Part I

• Administering Red Hat Linux - Part III
• Apache Web Server
• Perl Programming
• Oracle SQL

NOTE: Course technical content is subject to change without notice.

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

• How Kickstart works
• Sections within a Kickstart configuration file
• Pre and Post Kickstart processing
• Creating a Kickstart file
• Creating the Linux Install Server
• Differing ways of starting a Kickstart installation
• Exercise

• Introduction to text file editing using vi/vim
• Basic commands
• Copying and moving text
• Search and replace features
• Reading and writing from file
• Regular Expressions
• Exercise

• Searching the contents of text files
• Sorting Files
• Piping and Redirection
• Compressing files using gzip and bzip2
• Backing up files using tar
• Exercise

• Hard and symbolic links
• Other useful commands
• Exercise

• Authentication policies and User Private Groups
• Password management using passwd, chage etc
• Managing user profile files
• Extended file permissions including suid,sgid
• Access Control List (ACL's)
• Switching to another user
• Connecting to a centralized administration server
• Exercise

• Creating partitions
• Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
• Creating File Systems
• Extending LVM file systems
• LVM Snapshots
• LUKS encrypted partitions
• Exercise

• Context types
• semanage, getsebool, setsebool and chcon commands
• SELinux log files
• Exercise

• Configuring client access to an Network Filesystem Server (NFS)
• Providing CIFS access
• Configuring autofs
• Configure access from a client to a DNS server
• Exercise

• The YUM management tool
• The software repositories
• Accessing repositories from a client
• Exercise

• Ports and Socket Connections
• The xinetd Daemon Operation
• Controlling xinetd Services and Access
• Controlling Services using chkconfig
• The 'service' command
• Exercise

• Using 'at' to manage one-off jobs
• Using the cron system
• System crontab files
• Monitoring cron access
• Controlling access to the 'cron' and 'at' facilities
• Using anacron
• Exercise

• System Log Files
• rsyslogd configuration
• Analysing and rotating logfiles
• Exercise

• Loading and removing modules
• Using kernel arguments
• Exercise

• Understanding the boot process
• The Rescue Environment
• Using the anaconda rescue environment
• Overriding Boot Levels from grub
• Booting into Single User Mode
• Booting from USB devices
• Common boot problems and their resolution
• Exercise