Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3

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This highly practical instructor led Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the areas of networking, security, basics of shell scripting and elementary installing of MariaDB. With a strong emphasis on practical hands-on training, this course will teach the essential network, security and shell scripting tasks required on a Red Hat Linux system. The Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 course is designed for System Administrators and Programmers and other technical IT staff who need to acquire knowledge of the key networking, security and scripting tasks required to administer a Linux system. This course will teach many of the extra necessary skills required, over and above the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam requirements, to enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification. Courses covering the topics required for RHCSA certification, which are also a requirement of RHCE certification, are covered on the Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 1 & Part 2 courses. The course assumes administration knowledge of the Red Hat Linux operating system to the level covered in the Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 1 & Part 2 courses. Learning Objectives On completion of this Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 course the delegate will have gained practical experience of networking, securing and scripting on a Red Hat Linux system. The delegate will also gain the essential knowledge required to study towards taking the official Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification. The delegate will have knowledge in all, and practice in some, of the following: Review of Controlling Services and deamonsIntroduction to IPV6Configure Aggregated network links (teaming) and BridgingSet up network routing using static routesConfigure a Secure Firewall ConfigurationConfigure a DNS serverConfigure a basic email...

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Pre-Requisite CoursesAdministering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 2FastTrack to Red Hat Linux 7 System Administrator

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  • Network Training
  • Red Hat
  • DNS
  • Network
  • Server
  • Linux
  • Networking

Course programme

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: RECAP AND FURTHER DETAILS ON SYSTEMD
  • Recap of systemd
  • systemd Wants and Requires
  • Useful systemd related utilities
  • Exercise
Session 2: NETWORK MANAGEMENT AND IPV6
  • Routing under Linux
  • IPROUTE suite of programs
  • Configuring network cards and Routing
  • Configuring the system as a Gateway
  • IPV6 Addressing
  • Local Network Bridges
  • Network tools: tcpdump, netstat, wireshark,etc
  • Configure Ethernet Bonding (Link aggregation, teaming)
  • Exercise
Session 3: FILE SECURITY AND INTEGRITY
  • System Security
  • Extended Permissions
  • GPG
  • Why encrypt data and verify the sender
  • Key pairs and management
  • Using Digital signatures
  • Checking and repairing file systems
  • Exercise
Session 4: SECURING NETWORKS: FIREWALLS
  • Packet Filtering using firewalld
  • Rule Targets
  • Basic Rules and their Operation
  • Connection Tracking
  • Source and Destination NAT Configuration
  • Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 2Session 5: DOMAIN NAME SERVER (DNS)
  • The DNS/BIND system under Red Hat Linux
  • Name Server Hierarchy
  • Setting up DNS
  • Master/Slave Zones
  • Reverse lookup Zones
  • Record types and their syntax
  • Name Daemon Control Utility (rndc)
  • Address Match Lists (acl)
  • Configuring a Caching Only Name Server
  • DNS in a chroot environment
  • Testing a DNS server
  • Exercise
Session 6: CENTRALISED AND SECURE STORAGE
  • What is ISCSI
  • Setting up ISCSI Target and Initiator
  • Accessing Centralised Storage
  • Accessing encrypted file systems
  • Exercise
Session 7: CONFIGURING NETWORK TIME PROTOCOL
  • Stratum Levels
  • Choosing a time source
  • Configuring the ntp daemon
  • NTP roles
  • Setting up an NTP Server and Client
  • Direct or Broadcast Polling
  • Allowing NTP connections
  • Syncing considerations
  • Exercise
Session 8: FURTHER SECURITY FEATURES
  • su and sudo configuration
  • Configuring Kerberos Server and Client
  • Exercise
Session 9: SHARING FILES ACROSS THE NETWORK (NFS & SMB)
  • Configure file sharing using NFS
  • NFS commands
  • Automounter
  • Introduction to CIFS(SAMBA)
  • Configure file sharing between hosts with CIFS
  • Using Konqueror to access shares
  • Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 3Session 10: BASIC MAIL SERVER CONFIGURATION
  • Email Components
  • Mail User, Mail Transport and Mail User Agents
  • Postfix Configuration
  • Configuring a null client using Postfix
  • Dovecot - POP and IMAP services
  • Exercise
Session 11: SSL, TSL AND WEB SERVICE CONFIGURATION
  • Data Security and Encryption
  • Public Key Encryption
  • Configuring Virtual Hosts : Name And IP Based Access
  • Displaying Apache Web Server Information and Status
  • Dynamic Virtual hosts
  • Configuring HTTPS
  • Signed Certificates
  • Apache SSL Configuration File
  • HTTPS Virtual Hosts
  • Exercise
Session 12: CONFIGURING A MARIADB DATABASE
  • Install and configure MariaDB
  • Backup and Restore a database
  • Create a simple database schema
  • Perform simple SQL queries on the database
  • Exercise
Session 13: SHELL SCRIPTING
  • What is a shell script?
  • Creating and executing shell scripts
  • User interaction
  • Command line arguments
  • Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 4Session 14: CONDITIONAL SHELL SCRIPTING
  • Decision constructs using the 'if' statement
  • Case statement
  • Looping constructs: for/while/until
  • Automating administrative tasks
  • Exercise
Session 15: OVERVIEW OF LINUX CONTAINERS
  • What is a Linux Container
  • What are the advantages of Containers
  • What is Docker

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