FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer

This FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer course is suitable for very experienced LINUX System Administrators who need to validate their knowledge of the advanced administrative tasks required to administer a Red Hat LINUX system.This course assumes a strong prior knowledge of the LINUX operating system. The content of the Administering Red Hat Linux Part I and II courses will be the minimum level of knowledge required for attendance on this course.Students who have completed the FastTrack to Red Hat Linux System Administrator course should instead attend the Administering Red Hat Linux III course.On completion of the FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer course, the delegate will have a greater technical awareness of the system and will have acquired practical experience of intermediate and advanced administration duties of the Red Hat Linux system.FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 1Course IntroductionAdministration and Course MaterialsCourse Structure and AgendaDelegate and Trainer IntroductionsSession 1: INSTALLING A SYSTEM AND IMPLEMENTING VIRTUALISATIONVirtualisation conceptsInstallation methods availableThe RHEL Installer: anacondaPerforming the installation using kickstartFirstboot and post installationInstall a virtual systemChecking for supported hardwareCreating a Network BridgeConfiguring a KVM virtual networkStart and shutdown a virtual systemExercisesSession 2: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENTThe Red Hat Package Management systemInstalling removing software manually using rpmRPM queries and verifying packagesDependency problems and resolutionUpdating the Kernel from RPM'sOther RPM featuresUpdating using Red Hat NetworkThe YUM management toolThe software repositoriesAccessing repositories from a clientUse yum plugins to manage packagesUnderstand the design of a packageBuild a simple packageExerciseSession 3: NETWORK MANAGEMENTConfiguring Network InterfacesControlling Network Devices: ifup/ifdownConfiguring IPV4 dynamic and static networkingNetwork Tools ifconfig, ethtool etcControlling Services using chkconfigThe 'service' commandConnecting NIS and LDAP clients to corresponding serversLinking to a system using ssh and rsyncConfigure Ethernet BondingNetwork diagnosis tools : tcpdump, netstat, wireshark,etcConfiguring Static and Dynamic RoutingConfiguring the system as a GatewayCustomising network parametersIP aliasesIPV6 OverviewExerciseSession 4: MANAGE LOGICAL VOLUMES and SWAPUnderstand disk partitioningBasic LVM design and configurationThe Logical Volume Manager (LVM)Creating LVM based file systemsMounting and un-mounting file systemsHandling Removable MediaFile System attributesLUKS encrypted partitionsExtending LVM file systemsLVM SnapshotsiSCSI InitiatorSwap space managementExerciseFastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 2Session 5: USER AND FILE 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 user using sudoConnecting to a centralized administration serverSSSD - System Security Service DaemonConfiguring a Kerberos clientExerciseSession 6: BOOTING AND CHANGING RUN LEVELSThe init program and run levelsThe boot Sequence explainedThe grub boot managersRecovering root passwordThe /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit ProgramThe Startup Script ModelControl Services using chkconfig, ntsysv etc.System Shutdown and Reboot managementExerciseSession 7: CONFIGURING AND MANAGING SELINUXSELinuxManagement of SELinuxEasy configuration and customisation of SELinuxContext typessemanage, getsebool, setsebool and chcon commandsSELinux log filesExerciseFastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 3Session 8: SHARING FILES ACROSS THE NETWORKConfigure file sharing using NFS and autofsManage NFS serviceConfigure file sharing between hosts with CIFSConfigure file sharing using Anonymous FTPExerciseSession 9: CONFIGURING NETWORK TIME PROTOCOLSStratum LevelsNTP configuration fileAllowing NTP connectionsSyncing considerationsExerciseSession 10: DNSThe DNS/BIND system under RedHat LinuxName Server HierarchySetting up DNSMaster/Slave ZonesReverse lookup ZonesRecord types and their syntaxName Daemon Control Utility (rndc)Address Match Lists (acl)Configuring a Caching Only Name ServerDNS in a chroot environmentBIND Checking UtilitiesExerciseSession 11: SSL AND WEB SERVER CONFIGURATIONData Security and EncryptionEncryption Methods and Digital CertificatesGenerating keysThe Apache and Tux Web ServersApache server configuration filesApache Configuration DirectivesVirtual Host Management: Name and IP Based AccessCGI Programs and Apache modulesHTTP and SELinuxConfiguring httpsDynamically configured virtual hostsExerciseFastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 4Session 12: SYSTEM MONITORING and LOGGINGSystem Log FilesSyslogd and klogd ConfigurationAdvanced syslogd ConfigurationConfiguring remote logging - rsyslogAnalysing and rotating logfilesExerciseSession 13: SECURING NETWORK TRAFFICNetfilter - iptablesIPV6 OverviewPacket Filtering using iptablesRule TargetsBasic Rules and their OperationConnection TrackingNetwork Address TranslationExerciseSession 14: BASIC MAIL SERVER CONFIGURATIONEmail ComponentsMail User, Mail Transport and Mail User AgentsConfiguring sendmail and postfixSendmail Configuration FilesSendmail Configuration with the m4 Macro LanguageOutbound smarthost relayAccepting Inbound ConnectionsMacro DefinitionsSwitching to postfix, a sendmail replacementPostfix ConfigurationPostfix Null ClientProcmail delivery agentDovecot - POP and IMAP servicesExerciseSession 15: INSTALLING RED HAT 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 installationExercise