This course is designed to follow an identical set of topics with the added benefit of very comprehensive lab exercises and detailed lecture material.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system administration topics covered in this course cover the certification objects of the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam.

The topics covered include automating installation with Kickstart, intermediate and advanced level command line building blocks and tools, troubleshooting, network file sharing server configuration, connecting to a directory service, managing advanced security settings, maintenance tasks, and kernel tuning.

Current Version: A01

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Linux Training Prerequisites

Completion of or skills equal to the "Linux Systems Administration I" course.

Linux Training Course duration

5 days

Linux Training Supported Distributions:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Linux Training Course outline

1. Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
   1. Kickstart
   2. Anaconda: An Overview
   3. Anaconda: Booting the System
   4. Anaconda: Common Boot Options
   5. Anaconda: Loading Anaconda and Packages
   6. Anaconda: Storage Options
   7. Anaconda: Troubleshooting
   Lab Tasks
   1. Automating Installation with Kickstart
2. Accessing the Command Line
   1. Logging In
   2. Secure Shell
   3. ssh and sshd Configuration
   4. Accessing Remote Shells
   5. Transferring Files
   6. Alternative sftp Clients
   7. Switching User Contexts
   8. sudo
   9. Gathering Login Session Info
   Lab Tasks
   1. Login and Discovery
   2. Switching Users With su
   3. Introduction to ssh and scp
3. Intermediate Command Line Tools
   1. Filesystem Links
   2. Archives with tar
   3. Archives with cpio
   4. The gzip Compression Utility
   5. The bzip2 Compression Utility
   6. The XZ Compression Utility
   7. The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format
   8. Text Editing
   9. vi and Vim
   10. Learning vi
   11. Basic vi
   12. Intermediate vi
   Lab Tasks
   1. Archiving and Compression
   2. Text Editing with Vim
4. Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection
   1. Searching Inside Files
   2. Regular Expression Overview
   3. Regular Expressions
   4. RE Quantifiers
   5. RE Parenthesis
   6. Communication Channels
   7. File Redirection
   8. Piping Commands Together
   Lab Tasks
   1. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
   2. Extended Regular Expressions
   3. Using Regular Expressions With sed
   4. Text Processing
5. Network Configuration and Troubleshooting
   1. IPv4 Fundamentals
   2. TCP/UDP Fundamentals
   3. Linux Network Interfaces
   4. Ethernet Hardware Tools
   5. Network Configuration with ip Command
   6. Configuring Routing Tables
   7. IP to MAC Address Mapping with ARP
   8. Starting and Stopping Interfaces
   9. NetworkManager
   10. DNS Clients
   11. DHCP Clients
   12. system-config-network-{tui,cmd}
   13. Network Diagnostics
   Lab Tasks
   1. Network Discovery
   2. Basic Client Networking
   3. Troubleshooting Practice: Networking
6. Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems
   1. Partitioning Disks with fdisk
   2. Partitioning Disks with parted
   3. Filesystem Creation
   4. Filesystem Maintenance
   5. Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS)
   6. Swap
   Lab Tasks
   1. Creating and Managing Filesystems
   2. Hot Adding Swap
   3. LUKS-on-disk format Encrypted Filesystem
7. Managing Flexible Storage with the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
   1. Logical Volume Management
   2. Implementing LVM
   3. Creating Logical Volumes
   4. Manipulating VGs & LVs
   5. Advanced LVM Concepts
   6. system-config-lvm
   Lab Tasks
   1. Creating and Managing LVM Volumes
8. Access Network File Sharing Services; NFS and CIFS
   1. File Sharing via NFS
   2. NFSv4
   3. NFS Clients
   4. NFS Server Configuration
   5. AutoFS
   6. AutoFS Configuration
   7. Accessing Windows/Samba Shares from Linux
   Lab Tasks
   1. Using autofs
   2. NFS Server Configuration
9. Managing User Accounts
   1. User and Group Concepts
   2. User Administration
   3. Modifying Accounts
   4. Group Administration
   5. Password Aging
   Lab Tasks
   1. User and Group Administration
10. Network User Accounts with LDAP
    1. Manual DS Client Configuration
    2. system-config-authentication
    3. System Security Services Daemon (SSSD)
    Lab Tasks
    1. Using LDAP for Centralized User Accounts
11. Controlling Access to Files
    1. File Ownership
    2. Default Group Ownership
    3. File and Directory Permissions
    4. File Creation Permissions with umask
    5. Changing File Permissions
    6. SUID and SGID on files
    7. SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
    8. User Private Group Scheme
    9. File Access Control Lists
    10. Manipulating FACLs
    11. Viewing FACLs
    12. Backing Up FACLs
    Lab Tasks
    1. File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
    2. User Private Groups
    3. Using Filesystem ACLs
12. Managing SELinux
    1. SELinux Security Framework
    2. SELinux Modes
    3. SELinux Commands
    4. Choosing an SELinux Policy
    5. SELinux Booleans
    6. Permissive Domains
    7. SELinux Policy Tools
    Lab Tasks
    1. Exploring SELinux Modes
    2. SELinux File Contexts
13. Installing and Managing Software
    1. Managing Software
    2. RPM Features
    3. RPM Architecture
    4. RPM Package Files
    5. Working With RPMs
    6. Querying and Verifying with rpm
    7. Updating the Kernel RPM
    8. Managing Software Dependencies
    9. Using the YUM command
    10. YUM package groups
    11. Configuring YUM
    12. Yum Plugins
    13. YUM Repositories
    Lab Tasks
    1. Managing Software with RPM
    2. Managing YUM Repositories
    3. Using YUM
    4. Creating a Custom RPM Repository
14. Analyzing and Storing Logs
    1. System Logging
    2. Rsyslog
    3. /etc/rsyslog.conf
    4. Log Management
    5. Log Anomaly Detector
    Lab Tasks
    1. Setting up a Full Debug Logfile
    2. Remote Syslog Configuration
15. Managing Processes
    1. Automating Tasks
    2. at/batch
    3. cron
    4. The crontab Command
    5. crontab Format
    6. /etc/cron.*/ Directories
    7. Anacron
    8. Viewing Processes
    9. Managing Processes
    10. Tuning Process Scheduling
    Lab Tasks
    1. Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
    2. Adding System cron Jobs
16. Boot Process and SysV Init
    1. Booting Linux on PCs
    2. GRUB Configuration
    3. Boot Parameters
    4. Initial ramdisk
    5. /sbin/init
    6. System Init Styles
    7. Linux Runlevels
    8. /etc/inittab
    9. /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
    10. Runlevel Implementation
    11. System Configuration Files
    12. RHEL6 Configuration Utilities
    13. Typical SysV Init Script
    14. The /etc/rc.local File
    15. Managing Daemons
    16. Controlling Service Startup
    17. Shutdown and Reboot
    Lab Tasks
    1. Managing Services With chkconfig
    2. Boot Process
    3. Introduction to Troubleshooting Labs
    4. Troubleshooting Practice: Boot Process
17. Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel
    1. Kernel Modules
    2. Configuring Kernel Components and Modules
    3. Handling Module Dependencies
    4. Configuring the Kernel via /proc/
    Lab Tasks
    1. Adjusting Kernel Options