Red Hat Linux V7 for Experienced Solaris Administrators

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This instructor led Red Hat Linux 7 for Experienced Solaris Administrators course is designed to give delegates practical experience in administrating a Red Hat (v7) system.

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Subjects

  • Red Hat
  • IT
  • Linux
  • Solaris

Course programme

Follow-On Courses

  • Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3

Overview of Differences

  • Documentation
  • The Shell
  • Networking
  • User Administration
  • System Monitoring
  • Managing Software
  • Data Security
  • Disk Partitioning
  • Disk Volume Management
  • File Systems
  • The Linux Kernel
  • Automatic Installation
  • Managing System Services
  • Accessing Data on Remote Systems
  • Troubleshooting

Basic Client Networking

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

User and File Administration

  • Authentication policies and User Private Groups
  • Password management using passwd, chage etc
  • Managing user profile files
  • Access Control List (ACL's)
  • Extended File Attributes
  • Exercise

System Monitoring

  • Text and Graphical Tools
  • System logging with rsyslogd
  • Analysing and rotating logfiles
  • Exercise

Managing Software with RPM

  • 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
  • Basic Firewall management
  • Exercise

File Systems and Disk Partitioning

  • Managing File Systems
  • 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/samba access
  • Configuring autofs
  • Exercise

Troubleshooting

  • Understanding the boot process
  • Booting the Rescue Environment
  • Overriding Boot Levels from grub
  • Exercise

Red Hat Linux V7 for Experienced Solaris Administrators

Price on request