FastTrack to Red Hat Linux System Administrator

The FastTrack to Red Hat Linux System Administrator course is suitable for experienced LINUX/UNIX System Administrators who need to acquire knowledge of the key administrative tasks required to administer a LINUX system. This course will teach the necessary skills to enable the student to work towards the RHCSA certification.This course assumes a strong prior knowledge of the LINUX/UNIX operating system. The content of the Administering Red Hat Linux - Part I course is the minimum level of knowledge required for attendance on this course.On completion of the FastTrack to Red Hat Linux System Administrator course, the delegate will have a greater technical awareness of the system and will have acquired practical experience of the key administration duties on a Red Hat Linux system. They will possess the essential knowledge required to study towards the official Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) qualification.FastTrack to Red Hat Linux System Administrator Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 1Course IntroductionAdministration and Course MaterialsCourse Structure and AgendaDelegate and Trainer IntroductionsSession 1: ACCESSING DOCUMENTATIONGetting Help - man pages, info, /usr/share/docSources of information available on the WEBSession 2: BASIC CLIENT NETWORKINGConfiguring Network InterfacesControlling Network Devices: ifup/ifdownConfiguring IPV4 dynamic and static networkingNetwork Tools ifconfig, ethtool etcConfiguring basic NTPConnecting NIS and LDAP clients to corresponding serversLinking to a system using ssh and rsyncExerciseSession 3: 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 userConnecting to a centralised administration serverExerciseSession 4: SYSTEM MONITORINGMonitor CPU and memory usageCheck disk utilisationSystem Log FilesMonitor system logsSyslogd and klogd ConfigurationAdvanced syslogd ConfigurationAnalysing and rotating logfilesExerciseFastTrack to Red Hat Linux System Administrator Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 2Session 5: 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 toolSoftware repositoriesAccessing repositories from a clientUpdating your system with Red Hat NetworkExerciseSession 6: DATA SECURITYSELinuxManagement of SELinuxEasy configuration and customisation of SELinuxConfiguring and using ssh and scpBasic Firewall managementExerciseSession 7: DEPLOY WEB, FTP and DHCP SERVERSThe Apache and Tux Web ServersApache server configuration filesApache Configuration DirectivesVirtual Host Management: Name and IP Based AccessHTTP and SELinuxThe FTP Service using vsftpdCopying files using sftpConfiguring a DHCP serverExerciseFastTrack to Red Hat Linux System Administrator Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 3Session 8: PARTITIONING AND LVM VOLUMES Understand disk partitioningLUKS encrypted partitionsBasic LVM design and configurationThe Logical Volume Manager (LVM)Creating LVM file systemsResizing LVM file systemsLVM SnapshotsExerciseSession 9: MAINTAINING THE KERNELKernel DesignDynamic ModulesLoading and removing modulesUsing kernel argumentsChanging Tuneable ParametersExerciseSession 10: 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 installationExerciseFastTrack to Red Hat Linux System Administrator Training CourseCourse Contents - DAY 4Session 11: CHANGING RUN-LEVELSThe init program and run levelsThe boot Sequence explainedThe grub boot managerThe upstart processThe startup scriptsControl Services using chkconfig, ntsysv etc.Changing Run-LevelsSystem Shutdown and Reboot managementExerciseSession 12: MANAGING VIRTUAL SYSTEMSVirtualisation conceptsInstall a KVM virtual systemChecking for supported hardwareStart and shutdown a virtual systemExerciseSession 13: ACCESSING REMOTE SYSTEMS"Configuring client access to an Network Filesystem Server (NFS)Providing CIFS accessConfiguring autofsExerciseSession 14: TROUBLESHOOTINGUnderstanding the boot processThe Rescue EnvironmentUsing the anaconda rescue environmentThe Networked Rescue EnvironmentOverriding Boot Levels from grubCommon boot problems and their resolutionExercise