This course is based on the Red Hat System Administration certification courses 1 and 2. You should attend this course if you are looking for an alternative way of working toward the certification for the System Administrator. As well as provinding grounding for the exam this course will also provide you with useful information for your day to day job as a System Administrator of a Red Hat system as well.
For best results you should attend a Linux or Unix Fundamentals course first if you do not already have a basic understanding of command line features and the shell bash.
Ideally you should have used Linux or Unix system with a command line, and are capable of file manipulation, editing files and getting around the file system. You may also want to attend this course if you are looking to take the RHCSA exam, or if you want to improve you core understanding of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 system.
The course consists of lecture and exercises, where the exercises require you to think about what has just occurred in the module rather than step-by-step instructions, to prepare you for an exam type environment.
Ability to use a Unix/Linux shell such as bash, ksh or sh and be able to manipulate files and navigate the directory structure.
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Timing: Start 9:30am - Finish 5:00pm
Understand and perform manual installation and the various choices
Understand and use the different installation tools available with RHEL and manage repositories.
Commands essential to systems administrators such as sudo, redirection, pipelines, links, regular expressions and VIM.
Manage local users and groups and configure a system to work with LDAP authentication.
File and directory permissions and working with ACLs.
Securing the root user, PAM and SELinux
Adding basic disks to a system, partitioning, formatting and using.
Working with encrypted file systems. Performing manual and automated mounting.
Understand and manage logical volumens for RHEL. Create, modify and remove LVMs.
Taking snapshots of logical volumes. Understand what they are, how to create and manage them.
Creating RAID devices using RHEL software RAID and how to configure a RAID LVM.
Identify what can go wrong with a booting system, or how to recover a root password. Boot RHEL into different modes from GRUB and use the rescue environment, and restore the boot loader.
Understand the boot process of RHEL, and how to configure services to start/stop or add new ones.
Configure basic networking, understand routing and subnets and configure a system to use a DNS server.
Understand what file sharing services RHEL provides, how to configure and manage the server side and how to configure a client to mount NFS and CIFS.
Configure and manage vsFTP services for RHEL server and test it
Understand what network security configuration files are available to secure the system, secure FTP, SSH and other services with TCP wrappers and firewalls. Set up and use SSH keys.
Learn how to update kernels and modify kernel attributes as well as loading and unloading modules.
Getting help from a RHEL system, using cron and other schedulers and installing a GUI.
Understand the why, what and when of monitoring, the various tools available to obtain information about your system and checking log files.
Install the virtual environment, deploy and manage virtual machines.
Understand the infrastructure required to perform automated network installs, build a kickstart file and use it.