Red Hat Linux // RH134

RH134 Red Hat System Administration II

Building on command line skills for Linux administrators

Course Description

Red Hat System Administration II without the RHCSA Exam (RH134) is designed for IT professionals working to become full-time enterprise Linux system administrators. The course is a follow-up to System Administration I and continues to utilize today's best-of-breed, contemporary teaching methodology. Students 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, students will dive deeper into Red Hat Enterprise Linux to broaden their "tool kits" of administration skills. By the end of this five-day course, students will be able to administer and troubleshoot file systems and partitioning, logical volume management, access control, package management.

Audience

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

Prerequisites

Red Hat System Administration I

What You Will Learn

After completing this coures, you will understand:
  • 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

Course Outline

Module 1: Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Create and manage kickstart configuration files; perform installations using kickstart
Module 2: Accessing the Command Line
Access the command line locally and remotely; gain administration privileges from the command line
Module 3: Intermediate Command Line Tools
Use hardlinks; use archives and compression; use vim
Module 4: Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection
Use regular expressions to search patterns in files and output; redirect and pipe output
Module 5: Network Configuration and Troubleshooting
Configure network settings; troubleshoot network issues
Module 6: Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems
Create and format simple partitions, swap partitions and encrypted partitions
Module 7: Managing Flexible Storage with Logical Volumes
Implement LVM and LVM snapshots
Module 8: Access Network File Sharing Services
NFS, CIFS and autofs
Module 9: Managing User Accounts
Manage user accounts including password aging; connect to a central LDAP directory service
Module 10: Controlling Access to Files
Manage group memberships, file permissions, and access control lists (ACL)
Module 11: Managing SELinux
Activate and deactivate SELinux; set file contexts; manage SELinux booleans; analyze SELinux logs
Module 12: Installing and Managing Software
Manage software and query information with yum, configure client-side yum repository files
Module 13: Managing Installed Services
Managing services, verify connectivity to a service
Module 14: Analyzing and Storing Logs
Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate
Module 15: Managing Processes
Identify and terminal processes, change the priority of a process, use cron and at to schedule
processes
Module 16: Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel
List, load, and remove modules; use kernel arguments
Module 17: Troubleshooting
Understand the boot process, resolve boot problems
Follow up courses and exams
Red Hat System Administration III with RHCSA & RHCE Exam (RH255)
Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RH318), RHCVA Exam (EX318)
Red Hat Linux Troubleshooting (RH242)