RH134: Red Hat® System Administration II

$2,900.00


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Duration: 5 Days

Designed for IT professionals working to become full-time enterprise Linux system administrators, this course is a follow up to System Administration I (RH124) and continues to utilize today's best-of-breed, contemporary teaching methodology. You will be actively engaged in task-focused activities, lab-based knowledge checks, and facilitative discussions to ensure maximum skills transfer and retention. Building on the foundation of command line skills covered in System Administration I, you will dive deeper into Red Hat Enterprise Linux to add to your administration skills tool kit.

By the end of this course, you will be able to administer and troubleshoot file systems and partitioning, logical volume management, access control, and package management.

Certification:

Interested in RHCSA certification? Register for RH135 instead of this course, or register for EX200 after this course. This course does not include the RHCSA exam.

What You Will Learn

 

  • Administer and troubleshoot file systems and partitioning
  • Administer and troubleshoot logical volume management
  • Administer and troubleshoot access control
  • Administer and troubleshoot package management

Audience

 

IT professionals who have attended Red Hat System Administration I and want the skills to be full-time enterprise Linux administrators

Prerequistes

 

  • RH124 Red Hat System Administration I
  • Confirmation of prerequisite knowledge obtained by passing the online pre-assessment quiz at redhat.com/explore/pre-assessment

Course Outline

 

1. Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

  • Create and manage kickstart configuration files
  • Perform installations using kickstart

2. Accessing the Command Line

  • Access the command line locally and remotely
  • Gain administration privileges from the command line

3. Intermediate Command Line Tools

  • Use hardlinks
  • Use archives and compression
  • Use vim

4. Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection

  • Use regular expressions to search patterns in files and output
  • Redirect and pipe output

5. Network Configuration and Troubleshooting

  • Configure network settings
  • Troubleshoot network issues

6. Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems

  • Create and format simple partitions
  • Create and format swap partitions
  • Create and format encrypted partitions

7. Managing Flexible Storage with Logical Volumes

  • Implement LVM
  • Implement LVM snapshots

8. Access Network File Sharing Services

  • NFS
  • CIFS
  • autofs

9. Managing User Accounts

  • Manage user accounts including password aging
  • Connect to a central LDAP directory service

10. Controlling Access to Files

  • Manage group memberships
  • Manage file permissions
  • Manage access control lists (ACLs)

11. Managing SELinux

  • Activate and deactivate SELinux
  • Set file contexts
  • Manage SELinux booleans
  • Analyze SELinux logs

12. Installing and Managing Software

  • Manage software and query information with yum
  • Configure client-side yum repository files

13. Managing Installed Services

  • Managing services
  • Verify connectivity to a service

14. Analyzing and Storing Logs

  • Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate

15. Managing Processes

  • Identify and terminate processes
  • Change the priority of a process
  • Use cron and at to schedule processes

16. Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel

  • List, load, and remove modules
  • Use kernel arguments

17. Troubleshooting

  • The boot process
  • Resolve boot problems

Course Labs