Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Server Administration

AUDIENCE: Computer users who will be required to administer one or more RHEL5, Fedora or CentOS 5 system.
PREREQUISITES: No previous experience with a UNIX or Linux system is required, although delegates may benefit from attending our UNIX/Linux Essentials course.
DURATION: 4 days. Hands on.
OBJECTIVES: Red HatTM Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is finding its way into business, education and government. Due to its outstanding reliability, performance and low cost, RHEL is being used extensively for file, database and web server applications. The Red HatTM Enterprise Linux 5 Essentials & Administration course is designed to cover in detail the essential topics required to administer these systems.

The Red HatTM Enterprise Linux 5 Essentials & Administration course assumes the delegate has no prior knowledge of a Unix or Linux system and therefore starts from the basics. The course then moves on to show delegates how to manage their RHEL systems including adding user accounts; install software and hardware; access disk devices & boot-up and shut down systems.

At the end of this course, delegates will be able to:
- Understand the use of Linux
- Log-in and log-out of the system
- Navigate the file system
- List files and directories
- Set ownership''s and permissions
- Manipulate files and directories
- View files
- Use filters and pipes
- Use wildcards, meta-characters & regular expressions
- Use the vi editor for basic editing
- Install RHEL5 from DVD
- Install RHEL5 using KickStart
- Boot & shutdown RHEL and understand the boot process
- Administer the Linux file system & partition disks
- Add software & packages
- Add, delete and manage users
- Perform basic network configuration
- Add, delete & manage the print system
- Perform batch processing tasks
- Monitor and maintain log files
- Understand the kernel and how it is recompiled
- Introduction to Linux RAID & Logical Volume Management
COURSE CONTENT:
1. RHEL5 Introduction
Obtaining RHEL5
RHEL5 versions
Rebuild versions of RHEL
RH Certification Program

2. Introduction to the XWindow system
The XWindow system
Selecting a window manager
Logging into Linux
The Gnome window manager
The KDE window manager
Using the Firefox browser to access the Internet

3. Using the Linux environment
cat, tac, zcat, head, tail, uniq, & sort commands
Extracting lines from files
Replacing text
Formatting files
Comparing Files
File conversion tools

4. Linux File Structure
The file structure hierarchy
File naming conventions
The pwd & cd commands
Creating & removing directories
Copying, renaming and moving files & directories
Using links
Deleting files and directories

5. Text Editors
The vim editor
Graphical based editors

6. The Linux shell environment
Special & meta-characters
Local & environmental variables
History mechanism

7. File System Security
Access Permissions
Access Rights
Changing permissions
Permission masks

8. Advanced Shell Functionality
File descriptors
Shell redirection
File & devices
Using pipes
Using shell aliases

9. Unix Filters & Tools
Tools & pipelines
Using tr, cut, sort, & uniq
Command substitutions

10. Advanced Text Manipulation Tools
Using the find command
Comparing files
Pattern matching
Using grep, sed & awk

11. Network Access to Linux
Introduction to Linux networking
The ping command
Using telnet & ftp
Using the secure shell package

12. Hardware & Installation
Hardware compatibility
CPU, RAM, Hotswap Buses
RHEL5 installation
Post install steps
Network based installation

13. The Boot Process
BIOS initialisation
The GRUB boot loader
Kernel initialisation
The init process and inittab file
Controlling services
System configuration files

14. The Linux Filesystem
Partitioning hard disks
Managing filesystems
The automounter
Access control lists

15. Package Management
The Red Hat package manager
The Red Hat Network
Using pup, pirut and yum
Using KickStart to automate installation

16. User Administration
User account Management
Basic user environment
Shell configuration files
Disk quotas
Special groups
Pluggable Authentication Module
NIS & LDAP clients

17. System Administration Tools
Network configuration
The CUPS print system
Using cron & at
Managing log files


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