Course description
This highly practical instructor led Red Hat 7 System Administration - Part 1 training course is designed to give delegates practical experience in the use and administration of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system.
With a strong emphasis on practical hands-on training using the command line, this course will teach the basic administrative tasks required to successfully administer a Red Hat Linux system.
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.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Who will the Course Benefit?...
Who will the Course Benefit?This Red Hat 7 System Administration - Part 1 course is suitable for anyone who is new to Linux and needs to understand and use the operating system. The course will particularly appeal to Microsoft Windows system administrators, network administrators and other operating system professionals or anyone who requires a proficiency in Linux.
Course ObjectivesOn completion of this Red Hat 7 System Administration - Part 1 course, the delegate will have gained practical experience of using the Linux commands and the GUI's, as well as the technical knowledge and skills required to work productively in the workplace using Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
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Suitability - Who should attend?
The delegate should be familiar with basic computer concepts and terminology e.g. hardware, software, files and directories.
Training Course Content
Red Hat 7 System Administration - Part 1 Training Course
Course Contents - DAY 1
Course Introduction- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
- A brief history of UNIX and LINUX
- GNU project
- GPL - GNU General Public license
- LINUX kernel
- Bash Shell
- Login sessions
- Exercise
- GUI Desktop
- GNOME 3 and GNOME Classic
- Configuring the Desktop
- Managing files graphically
- Graphical tools for investigating hardware
- Exercise
- Constructing Linux commands
- Essential keyboard shortcuts
- Basic commands and utilities
- Getting Help - man pages, info and supplied documentation
- Sources of information available on the Internet
- Command line history, viewing and re-executing
- Partial file display
- Performing text searches
- Sorting files
- Piping and redirecting output
- Bash Environment
- Shell Variables
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 2
Session 4: THE LINUX FILE SYSTEM- Filesystem structure
- Standard Linux directories and files
- Relative and absolute file paths
- Navigating the file system using shell commands
- Managing files and directories
- Using wildcards
- Creating hard and symbolic links
- Finding files and directories
- Monitoring file system usage
- Exercise
- Using the graphical editor to create and edit text files
- Searching and replacing text
- Exercise
- Basic file and directory access permissions
- Listing and modifying permissions
- Viewing and modifying default permissions
- Changing file ownership
- SELinux overview and viewing denials
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 3
Session 7: MANAGING USER ACCOUNTS- User Private Group scheme
- Administering users and groups
- Managing users with graphical tools
- Assigning and managing Linux passwords
- Modifying Bash profile files
- Exercise
- systemd daemon
- Viewing and managing systemd units
- Controlling services using systemctl
- Shutting down and rebooting systems
- Exercise
- Virtualisation concepts
- Checking for supported hardware
- Install a virtual system
- Starting and shutting-down a virtual system
- Managing virtual systems via the command line or GUI
- Exercises
- Configuring the system hostname
- Configuring IPv4 dynamic and static networking
- Configuring IPv6 addresses
- Configuring remote desktops
- Analysing network packets
- Configuring an NTP client and NTS
- Configuring a NIS and LDAP client
- Connecting to systems using SSH and graphical tools
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 4
Session 11: LOGICAL VOLUMES- Disk naming conventions
- RAID overview
- Linux block storage
- LVM storage overview
- Viewing Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
- GNOME disk utility
- Exercise
- Mounting and un-mounting file systems
- Filesystem attributes and mounting options
- Labelling filesystems
- Handling removable media
- Checking and repairing filesystems
- Exercise
- Configuring local and remote logging
- Testing logging
- Viewing and configuring the system journal
- Analysing and rotating log files
- Exercise
- Creating and extracting archived files
- Remotely copying files using rsync, scp and sftp
- Configuring the rsync service
- Compressing files using gzip, bzip2 and zip
- Exercise
Course Contents - DAY 5
Session 15: MANAGE MEMORY AND CPU USAGE- Time-sharing
- Anatomy of a process
- System and user processes
- Monitoring processes via the command line and top
- Monitoring and managing processes with GUI tools
- Killing processes
- Exercise
- Red Hat Package Management system
- Querying and verifying packages with RPM
- Dependency problems and resolution
- Other RPM features
- Viewing documentation with RPM
- Red Hat Network and Subscription Manager
- Exercise
- yum management tool
- yum4 (dnf) and yum3
- Viewing and modifying software repositories
- Managing software and updates using yum
- Viewing yum history and rolling-back
- Exercise
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Whilst the pace of the course is fine I occasionally found myself falling behind due to my lack of experience / ability and it was then difficult to get back into where we were ...
John is a very knowledgeable instructor, speaks a clear English and provides useful background info. This course is packed with info and could easily run another week with extr...
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Further Learning
- Red Hat 7 System Administration - Part 2
- Red Hat System Security
- Red Hat Networking
- Linux Shell Programming
- Linux Advanced Shell Programming Tools
- Apache Web Server
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