Administering Red Hat Linux V6 - Part II

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    Course

  • Location

    London

This highly practical instructor led Administering Red Hat Linux V6 - Part II 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.

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London
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Clerks Court 18-20 Farringdon Lane Clerkenwell, EC1R 3AU

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On request

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Subjects

  • Red Hat
  • IT
  • Linux

Course programme

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

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

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

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

Additional Shell Commands

  • Hard and symbolic links
  • Other useful commands

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

LVM Volumes

  • LUKS encrypted partitions
  • Extending LVM file systems
  • LVM Snapshots

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

Configuring and Managing SELinux

  • Context types
  • semanage, getsebool, setsebool and chcon commands
  • SELinux log files

Use YUM to Install and Manage Software

  • The YUM management tool
  • The software repositories
  • Accessing repositories from a client

Network Services

  • Ports and Socket Connections
  • The xinetd Daemon Operation
  • Controlling xinetd Services and Access
  • Controlling Services using chkconfig
  • The 'service' command

System Monitoring

  • System Log Files
  • Syslogd and klogd Configuration
  • Advanced syslogd Configuration
  • Analysing and rotating logfiles

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

Maintaining the Kernel

  • Loading and removing modules
  • Using kernel arguments

Troubleshooting

  • Understanding the boot process
  • The Rescue Environment
  • Using the anaconda rescue environment
  • The Networked Rescue Environment
  • Overriding Boot Levels from grub
  • Booting from USB devices
  • Common boot problems and their resolution

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