FastTrack to Red Hat Linux System Administrator (V7)

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  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

This highly practical instructor led FastTrack to Red Hat Linux System Administrator (V7) course is designed to give experienced LINUX/UNIX administrators practical experience in the administration of a LINUX system to a level required by the Red Hat Certified Systems Administration certification. This course is targeted to closely follow the official Red Hat curriculum and will enable the student to work towards the RHCSA qualifications. This class will have a high, practical content and a fast pace. Delegates should have a strong command line experience of UNIX/LINUX including cp, grep, mkdir, ssh, tar, useradd, cups, be capable of using man pages and DHCP, to name just a few.

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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

Follow-on Courses

  • Administering Red Hat Linux (V7) - Part 3
  • Apache Web Server
  • Perl Programming
  • Oracle SQL

Accessing the System

  • Logging in and command line access
  • Getting Help - man pages, info, /usr/share/doc
  • Sources of information available on the WEB
  • Remote Desktop Access

Basic Client Networking

  • Configuring Network Interfaces
  • Controlling Network Devices: ifup/ifdown
  • Configuring IPV4 dynamic and static networking
  • Network Tools ifconfig, ethtool etc
  • Configuring basic NTP
  • Connecting NIS and LDAP clients to corresponding servers
  • Linking to a system using ssh and rsync
  • Exercise

User and File 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 centralised administration server
  • Exercise

System Monitoring

  • Monitor CPU and memory usage
  • Check disk utilisation
  • System Log Files
  • Monitor system logs
  • rsyslogd
  • Analysing and rotating logfiles
  • Exercise

Software Management

  • The Red Hat Package Management system
  • Installing removing software manually using rpm
  • RPM queries and verifying packages
  • Dependency problems and resolution
  • Updating the Kernel from RPM's
  • Other RPM features
  • Exercise

Managing Software with YUM

  • The YUM management tool
  • Software repositories
  • Accessing repositories from a client
  • Updating your system with Red Hat Network

Data Security

  • SELinux
  • Management of SELinux
  • Easy configuration and customisation of SELinux
  • Configuring and using ssh and scp
  • Basic Firewall management
  • Exercise

Disk Partitioning

  • Understand and configure disk partitioning
  • LUKS encrypted partitions
  • Exercise

LVM Volumes

  • Basic LVM design and configuration
  • The Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
  • Creating LVM file systems
  • Resizing LVM file systems
  • LVM Snapshots
  • Exercise

Maintaining The Kernel

  • Kernel Design
  • Dynamic Modules
  • Loading and removing modules
  • Using kernel arguments
  • Changing Tuneable Parameters
  • Exercise

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
  • Exercise

Using SYSTEMD and Controlling Services

  • The systemd deamon
  • Control Services using systemctl etc.
  • System Shutdown and Reboot management

Managing Virtual Systems

  • Virtualisation concepts
  • Install a KVM virtual system
  • Checking for supported hardware
  • Start and shutdown a virtual system
  • Exercise

Accessing Data on Remote Systems

  • Configuring client access to an Network Filesystem Server (NFS)
  • Providing CIFS access
  • Configuring autofs
  • Exercise

Troubleshooting

  • Understanding the boot process
  • The Rescue Environment
  • Overriding Boot Levels from grub
  • Common boot problems and their resolution
  • Exercise

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