Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 1
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Online
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Methodology
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This highly practical instructor led Administering Red Hat Linux (V7) - Part 1 training course introduces the delegate to the main concepts of the Red Hat Linux operating system and basic systems administration. Targeted to closely follow the Red Hat courses, this course together with the follow on Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II course will enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) qualification. Commonly used commands are described in detail as well as GUI tools. The attendee will also gain basic administration techniques used in the workplace Who will the Course Benefit?The Administering Red Hat Linux (V7) - Part 1 training course is suitable for anyone who is new to Linux and needs to understand and use the operating system. The course will particularly appeal to Microsoft Windows system administrators, network administrators and other operating system professionals or anyone who requires a proficiency in Linux. Learning Objectives To provide command line and GUI skills required to work productively in the workplace using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). The delegate will possess at the end of the course some of the fundamental skills required to begin their studies towards achieving the various Red Hat certifications. The delegate will gain the following experience:- Be capable of working on the command line with Bash Shell commandsBe able to access help and documentation facilities both locally and onlineUnderstand the Linux file system and managing files from the command lineAlso be capable of using the graphical desktop and be able to manage files graphicallyCreate and edit files using geditManage users, groups and passwordsListing and changing access permissions on files and directories from the command lineBe capable of managing processesUnderstand system daemons using systemdUnderstand disk organisation and Logical Volume ManagerView information relating to file systemsArchive...
About this course
The delegate should be familiar with basic computer concepts and terminology e.g. hardware, software, files and directories.
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Subjects
- Operating System
- Network Training
- Systems
- Red Hat
- Network
- Linux
- Access
Course programme
Course Contents - DAY 1Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- A brief history of UNIX and LINUX
- GNU project
- GPL - GNU General Public license
- The LINUX kernel
- The Bash Shell
- Login sessions
- The GUI Desktop
- Configuring the Desktop
- Managing files graphically
- Graphical tools for investigating hardware
- Exercise
- Basic syntax Rules
- Essential keyboard shortcuts
- Basic commands and utilities
- Getting Help - man pages, info, /usr/share/doc
- Sources of information available on the WEB
- Command line history, viewing and re-executing
- Entering commands in the Bash Shell
- The Bash Environment
- Shell Variables
- Exercise
- The file system structure
- Standard Linux directories and files
- Pathnames : relative and absolute
- Navigating the file system using shell commands
- Managing files and directories
- Hard and symbolic links
- Monitoring file system usage
- Exercise
- Using the GUI Editor to edit text files
- Exercise
- Basic file access permissions
- List permissions
- Changing file permissions on the command line
- Overview of SELinux
- Exercise
- User and Group administration
- Adding a new user and group
- Setting a password
- Bash profile files
- Exercise
- The systemd deamon
- Control Services using systemctl etc.
- System Shutdown and Reboot management
- Exercise
- Virtualisation concepts
- Installation methods available
- Install a virtual system
- Checking for supported hardware
- Start and shutdown a virtual system
- Exercises
- Configuring Network Interfaces
- Controlling Network Devices: ifup/ifdown
- Configuring IPV4 dynamic and static networking
- Network Tools ifconfig, ethtool etc
- Configuring Remote Desktops
- Accessing Remote Desktop using vncviewer
- Configuring basic NTP
- Connecting NIS and LDAP clients to corresponding servers
- Linking to a system using ssh
- Exercise
- Basic LVM design and configuration
- The Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
- Displaying information regarding LVM volumes
- Exercise
- Mounting and un-mounting file systems using both labels and UUID's
- File System attributes
- Handling Removable Media
- Exercise
- System Log Files
- rsyslog configuration
- Analysing and rotating logfiles
- Exercise
- Tape archive - tar
- Compression utilities- bzip2, gzip, star and zip
- Secure copy - scp
- Local and remote copying with rsync
- Time-sharing
- What is a process?
- System and user processes
- Monitoring processes
- Killing processes
- Basic Job Control
- Altering process scheduling priorities
- Desktop tools to monitor and manage processes
- Exercise
- 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
- Updating using Red Hat Network
- Exercise
- The YUM management tool
- The software repositories
- Accessing repositories from a client
- Exercise
Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 1