Course description
This highly practical instructor led FastTrack Red Hat 9 System Administrator course is designed to give experienced LINUX/UNIX administrators practical experience in the administration of a Red Hat Linux 9 System to the level required by the Red Hat Certified Systems Administration (RHCSA) certification.
System administrators already experienced in administering other LINUX/UNIX systems such as Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and SUSE will gain valuable skills in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system administration.
This course features a high practical content and will be delivered at a fast pace with a strong emphasis on using the command line. Delegates should have previous command line experience of LINUX/UNIX, including but not limited to; cp, grep, find, mkdir, vim, ssh, tar, gzip and be capable of using man pages.
The delegate will learn modern system administration techniques and commands to administer a Red Hat Linux system. The command line is demonstrated and used extensively throughout the course.
This course is targeted to closely follow the official Red Hat curriculum and makes for an ideal practical refresher course prior to taking the RHCSA examination.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Who will the Course Benefit?This FastTrack Red Hat 9 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system.
This course will teach many of the necessary skills to enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification.
Course ObjectivesOn completion of the FastTrack Red Hat 9 System Administrator course, the delegate will have a greater technical awareness of the system and will have acquired practical experience of the key administration tasks required to administer a Red Hat Linux system.
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Suitability - Who should attend?
This course assumes a strong prior knowledge of the Linux operating system, and significant experience working with Linux as a system administrator is recommended.
The delegate will be expected to already understand fundamental Linux computing concepts, to the level covered on the Red Hat 9 System Administration - Part 1 course, as a minimum level requirement for attendance.
Experience to the level as demonstrated in this course is recommended:
- Red Hat 9 System Administration - Part 1
Training Course Content
FastTrack Red Hat 9 System Administrator Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- Logging in and command line access
- Getting help using manual pages and other sources
- Sources of information and HowTo documents
- Shell control characters
- Remote Desktop Access from Windows and Linux systems
- Exercise
- Configuring Network Interfaces and devices
- Controlling Network Devices
- Configuring IPV4 & IPV6 dynamic and static networking
- Capturing and analysing network packets
- Secure communications with SSH
- Configuring the Network Time Protocol
- Connecting NIS and LDAP servers
- Synchronising files with rsync
- Exercise
- Authentication policies and User Private Groups
- Managing users via the command line and graphical tools
- Password considerations and management
- Managing user profile files
- Extended file permissions
- Configuring Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Connecting to a centralised administration server
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 4: SYSTEM MONITORING- Monitor CPU and memory usage
- Checking disk utilisation
- Configuring system logging
- Managing process priorities
- Monitoring system logs
- Analysing and rotating logfiles
- Viewing and configuring the system journal
- Exercise
- Red Hat Package Management system
- Querying and verifying packages
- Dependency problems and resolution
- Updating the Kernel from RPM's
- Other RPM features
- Red Hat Subscription Manager
- Exercise
- Installing and removing packages via yum and dnf
- Rolling back software installations and updates
- Creating and accessing software repositories
- Accessing repositories from a client
- Configuring yum plugins
- Exercise
- Managing SELinux contexts, ports and booleans
- Viewing SELinux decisions
- Modifying the SELinux policy
- Configuring SSH
- Copying data to remote systems
- Firewall management with firewalld
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 8: DISK PARTITIONING- Partitioning disks and creating filesystems
- Checking and repairing filesystems
- Encrypting filesystems with LUKS
- Creating file and partition swap space
- Exercise
- Preparing devices for LVM
- Creating LVM Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
- Resizing and removing LVM filesystems
- Exercise
- Kernel design
- Dynamic modules
- Loading and removing modules
- Modifying Kernel configuration
- Dynamic tuning with tuned
- Changing Tuneable Parameters
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 4
Session 11: INSTALLING RED HAT LINUX USING KICKSTART- Automating a Red Hat installation
- Creating a Kickstart installation file
- Pre and Post Kickstart processing
- Creating the Linux installation server
- Performing a Kickstart installation via NFS, FTP and HTTP
- Exercise
- The systemd startup procedure
- Control Services using systemctl
- View systemd Units, Targets and Control Groups
- Managing localisation and time zones
- Shutting down and restarting the system
- Exercise
- Scheduling one-off tasks with at
- Scheduling tasks with cron
- Managing system cron files
- Automating tasks with anacron
- Exercise
- Configuring a Network Filesystem Server and client (NFS)
- Configuring AutoFS maps and wildcards
- Configuring a Samba server and client (CIFS)
- Configuring SELinux for Samba
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 5
Session 15: MANAGING VIRTUAL SYSTEMS- Virtualisation concepts
- Checking for supported hardware
- Installing a KVM virtual system
- Manage virtual systems via graphical and command line tools
- Start and shutdown a virtual system
- Exercise
- Linux Container overview
- Advantages of Containers vs Virtualization
- Replacing Docker with Red Hat Buildah
- Understanding the boot process
- Rescue Environment
- Overriding Boot Levels from grub
- Common boot problems and their resolution
- Exercise
- Summary of basic Linux commands
- Summary of administrative commands
- VDO overview
- Installing VDO
- Creating a VDO volume
- Increasing Logical and Physical Volume size
- Exercise
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Continuing Studies
Further Learning
- Red Hat 9 System Administration - Part 3: Linux Automation with Ansible
- Red Hat System Security
- Red Hat Networking
- Linux Shell Programming
- Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools
- Apache Web Server
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