Independent Red Hat Linux Training
Administering Red Hat Linux 6 - Part 2
Overview
This highly practical instructor led Administering Red Hat Linux 6 - Part 2 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 (V6) - Part 1 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 (V6) - Part 1 & Part 2 courses together with the Administrating Red Hat Linux (V6)- Part 3 course, will enable the attendee to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) qualification.
Objectives
On completion of this Administering Red Hat Linux 6 - Part 2 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.
Outline
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: 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 2: INTRODUCTION TO VIM
- 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
Session 3: MORE SHELL FACILITIES AND COMMANDS
- Searching the contents of text files
- Sorting Files
- Piping and Redirection
- Compressing files using gzip and bzip2
- Backing up files using tar
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 4: ADDITIONAL SHELL COMMANDS
- Hard and symbolic links
- Other useful commands
- Exercise
Session 5: USER 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 centralized administration server
- Exercise
Session 6: LVM VOLUMES
- Creating partitions
- Creating Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
- Creating File Systems
- Extending LVM file systems
- LVM Snapshots
- LUKS encrypted partitions
- Exercise
Session 7: CONFIGURING AND MANAGING SELINUX
- Context types
- semanage, getsebool, setsebool and chcon commands
- SELinux log files
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 8: ACCESSING REMOTE SYSTEMS
- Configuring client access to an Network Filesystem Server (NFS)
- Providing CIFS access
- Configuring autofs
- Configure access from a client to a DNS server
- Exercise
Session 9: USE YUM TO INSTALL AND MANAGE SOFTWARE
- The YUM management tool
- The software repositories
- Accessing repositories from a client
- Exercise
Session 10: NETWORK SERVICES
- Ports and Socket Connections
- The xinetd Daemon Operation
- Controlling xinetd Services and Access
- Controlling Services using chkconfig
- The 'service' command
- Exercise
Session 11: PROCESS SCHEDULING
- 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
Session 12: SYSTEM MONITORING
- System Log Files
- rsyslogd configuration
- Analysing and rotating logfiles
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 4
Session 13: MAINTAINING THE KERNEL
- Loading and removing modules
- Using kernel arguments
- Exercise
Session 14: TROUBLESHOOTING
- 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