Independent Red Hat Linux Training
FastTrack to Red Hat Linux 7 System Administrator
Overview
This highly practical instructor led FastTrack to Red Hat Linux 7 System Administrator course is designed to give experienced LINUX/UNIX administrators practical experience in the administration of a LINUX system to a level required by the Red Hat Certified Systems Administration certification. This course is targeted to closely follow the official Red Hat curriculum and will enable the student to work towards the RHCSA qualifications. This class will have a high, practical content and a fast pace. Delegates should have a strong command line experience of UNIX/LINUX including cp, grep, mkdir, ssh, tar, useradd, cups, be capable of using man pages and DHCP, to name just a few.
This course can also be used as a practical refresher course prior to taking the RHCSA examination.
Prerequisites
Experienced Linux/UNIX Administrators.
Objectives
On completion of the FastTrack to Red Hat Linux 7 System Administrator course, the delegate will have a greater technical awareness of the system and will have acquired practical experience of the key administration duties on a Red Hat Linux system. They will possess the essential knowledge required to study towards the official Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) qualification.
Outline
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: ACCESSING THE SYSTEM
- Logging in and command line access
- Getting Help - man pages, info, /usr/share/doc
- Sources of information available on the WEB
- Remote Desktop Access
Session 2: BASIC CLIENT NETWORKING
- Configuring Network Interfaces
- Controlling Network Devices: ifup/ifdown
- Configuring IPV4 dynamic and static networking
- Network Tools ifconfig, ethtool etc
- Configuring basic NTP
- Connecting NIS and LDAP clients to corresponding servers
- Linking to a system using ssh and rsync
- Exercise
Session 3: USER AND FILE ADMINISTRATION
- 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 centralised administration server
- Exercise
Session 4: SYSTEM MONITORING
- Monitor CPU and memory usage
- Check disk utilisation
- System Log Files
- Monitor system logs
- rsyslogd
- Analysing and rotating logfiles
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 5: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT
- The Red Hat Package Management system
- Installing removing software manually using rpm
- RPM queries and verifying packages
- Dependency problems and resolution
- Updating the Kernel from RPM's
- Other RPM features
- Exercise
Session 6: MANAGING SOFTWARE WITH YUM
- The YUM management tool
- Software repositories
- Accessing repositories from a client
- Updating your system with Red Hat Network
Session 7: DATA SECURITY
- SELinux
- Management of SELinux
- Easy configuration and customisation of SELinux
- Configuring and using ssh and scp
- Basic Firewall management
- Exercise
Session 8: DISK PARTITIONING
- Understand and configure disk partitioning
- LUKS encrypted partitions
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 9: LVM VOLUMES
- Basic LVM design and configuration
- The Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- Creating LVM file systems
- Resizing LVM file systems
- LVM Snapshots
- Exercise
Session 10: MAINTAINING THE KERNEL
- Kernel Design
- Dynamic Modules
- Loading and removing modules
- Using kernel arguments
- Changing Tuneable Parameters
- Exercise
Session 11: INSTALLING RED HAT LINUX USING KICKSTART
- 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
Session 12: USING SYSTEMD AND CONTROLLING SERVICES
- The systemd deamon
- Control Services using systemctl etc.
- System Shutdown and Reboot management
Course Contents - DAY 4
Session 13: MANAGING VIRTUAL SYSTEMS
- Virtualisation concepts
- Install a KVM virtual system
- Checking for supported hardware
- Start and shutdown a virtual system
- Exercise
Session 14: ACCESSING DATA ON REMOTE SYSTEMS
- Configuring client access to an Network Filesystem Server (NFS)
- Providing CIFS access
- Configuring autofs
- Exercise
Session 15: TROUBLESHOORTING
- Understanding the boot process
- The Rescue Environment
- Overriding Boot Levels from grub
- Common boot problems and their resolution
- Exercise