COURSE OBJECTIVE:
• Network configuration and troubleshooting
• Managing file systems and logical volumes
• Controlling user and file access
• Installing and managing services and processes
• Essential command-line operations
• Troubleshooting file systems and partitioning
• LVM, access control, and package management
TARGET AUDIENCE:
IT professionals who have attended Red Hat System Administration I and want the skills to be full-time enterprise Linux administrators or earn RHCSA certifications.
COURSE PREREQUISITES:
• RH124, Red Hat System Administration I
COURSE CONTENT:
Automated installations of Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®
• Objective: Create and manage kickstart configuration files; perform installations using kickstart.
Accessing the command line
• Objective: Access the command line locally and remotely; gain administrative privileges from the command line.
Intermediate command-line tools
• Objective: Use hardlinks, archives and compression, and vim.
Regular expressions, pipelines, and I/O redirection
• Objective: Use regular expressions to search patterns in files and output; redirect and pipe output.
Network configuration and troubleshooting
• Objective: Configure network settings; troubleshoot network issues.
Managing simple partitions and file systems
• Objective: Create and format simple partitions, swap partitions, and encrypt partitions.
Managing flexible storage with the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
• Objective: Implement LVM and LVM snapshots.
Accessing network file-sharing services; NFS and CIFS
• Objective: Implement NFS, CIFS, and autofs.
Managing user accounts
• Objective: Manage user accounts, including password aging.
Network user accounts with LDAP
• Objective: Connect to a central LDAP directory service.
Controlling access to files
• Objective: Manage group memberships, file permissions, and access control lists (ACL).
Managing SELinux
• Objective: Activate and deactivate SELinux; set file contexts; manage SELinux booleans; analyze SELinux logs.
Installing and managing software
• Objective: Manage software and query information with yum; configure client-side yum repository files.
Managing installed services
• Objective: Managing services; verify connectivity to a service.
Analyzing and storing logs
• Objective: Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate.
Managing processes
• Objective: Identify and terminate processes, change the priority of a process, and use cron and at to schedule processes.
Tuning and maintaining the kernel
• Objective: List, load, and remove modules; use kernel arguments.
System recovery techniques
• Objective: Understand the boot process and resolve boot problems.
FOLLOW ON COURSES:
RHCSA Exam (EX200) Hands-on, performance-based, 2.5-hour exam.
Red Hat System Administration III with RHCSA and RHCE Exams (RH255)