Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II

This Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II course is suitable for anyone who has acquired basic administration skills from attending the Administering Red Hat Linux - Part I course. This will include novice System Administrators, Network administrators, Programmers and other technical IT staff who need to acquire knowledge of the key administration tasks required to administer a Red Hat Linux system.This course will teach many of the necessary skills to enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification followed by the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification. The course assumes knowledge of the Red Hat Linux operating system to the level covered in the Administering Red Hat Linux - Part I course.On completion of this Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II 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.Administering Red Hat Linux - Part II Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 1Course IntroductionAdministration and Course MaterialsCourse Structure and AgendaDelegate and Trainer IntroductionsSession 1: INSTALLING RED HAT LINUX USING KICKSTARTHow Kickstart worksSections within a Kickstart configuration filePre and Post Kickstart processingCreating a Kickstart fileCreating the Linux Install ServerDiffering ways of starting a Kickstart installationExerciseSession 2: INTRODUCTION TO VIMIntroduction to text file editing using vi/vimBasic commandsCopying and moving textSearch and replace featuresReading and writing from fileRegular ExpressionsExerciseSession 3: MORE SHELL FACILITIES AND COMMANDSSearching the contents of text filesSorting FilesPiping and RedirectionCompressing files using gzip and bzip2Backing up files using tarExerciseAdministering Red Hat Linux - Part II Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 2Session 4: ADDITIONAL SHELL COMMANDSHard and symbolic linksOther useful commandsExerciseSession 5: USER ADMINISTRATIONAuthentication policies and User Private GroupsPassword management using passwd, chage etcManaging user profile filesExtended file permissions including suid,sgidAccess Control List (ACL's)Switching to another userConnecting to a centralized administration serverExerciseSession 6: LVM VOLUMES Creating partitionsCreating Volume Groups and Logical VolumesCreating File SystemsExtending LVM file systemsLVM SnapshotsLUKS encrypted partitionsExerciseSession 7: CONFIGURING AND MANAGING SELINUXContext typessemanage, getsebool, setsebool and chcon commandsSELinux log filesExerciseAdministering Red Hat Linux - Part II Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 3Session 8: ACCESSING REMOTE SYSTEMSConfiguring client access to an Network Filesystem Server (NFS)Providing CIFS accessConfiguring autofsConfigure access from a client to a DNS serverExerciseSession 9: USE YUM TO INSTALL AND MANAGE SOFTWAREThe YUM management toolThe software repositoriesAccessing repositories from a clientExerciseSession 10: NETWORK SERVICESPorts and Socket ConnectionsThe xinetd Daemon OperationControlling xinetd Services and AccessControlling Services using chkconfigThe 'service' commandExerciseSession 11: PROCESS SCHEDULINGUsing 'at' to manage one-off jobsUsing the cron systemSystem crontab filesMonitoring cron accessControlling access to the 'cron' and 'at' facilitiesUsing anacronExerciseSession 12: SYSTEM MONITORINGSystem Log Filesrsyslogd configurationAnalysing and rotating logfilesExerciseAdministering Red Hat Linux - Part II Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 4Session 13: MAINTAINING THE KERNELLoading and removing modulesUsing kernel argumentsExerciseSession 14: TROUBLESHOOTING Understanding the boot processThe Rescue EnvironmentUsing the anaconda rescue environmentOverriding Boot Levels from grubBooting into Single User ModeBooting from USB devicesCommon boot problems and their resolutionExercise