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. Students who attend Red Hat System Administration I & II will be fully prepared to take the Red Hat Certified System Administration (RHCSA) exam.
Agenda
Course Content:
• 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
Unit 1: Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Objectives: Create and manage kickstart configuration files; perform installations using kickstart
Unit 2: Accessing the Command Line
Objectives: Access the command line locally and remotely; gain administration privileges from the command line
Unit 3: Intermediate Command Line Tools
Objectives: Use hardlinks; use archives and compression; use vim
Unit 4: Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection
Objectives: Use regular expressions to search patterns in files and output; redirect and pipe output
Unit 5: Network Configuration and Troubleshooting
Objectives: Configure network settings; troubleshoot network issues
Unit 6: Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems
Objectives: Create and format simple partitions, swap partitions and encrypted partitions
Unit 7: Managing Flexible Storage with Logical Volumes
Objectives: Implement LVM and LVM snapshots
Unit 8: Access Network File Sharing Services
Objectives: NFS, CIFS and autofs
Unit 9: Managing User Accounts
Objectives: Manage user accounts including password aging; connect to a central LDAP directory service
Unit 10: Controlling Access to Files
Objectives: Manage group memberships, file permissions, and access control lists (ACL)
Unit 11: Managing SELinux
Objectives: Activate and deactivate SELinux; set file contexts; manage SELinux booleans; analyze SELinux logs
Unit 12: Installing and Managing Software
Objectives: Manage software and query information with yum, configure client-side yum repository files
Unit 13: Managing Installed Services
Objectives: Managing services, verify connectivity to a service
Unit 14: Analyzing and Storing Logs
Objectives: Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate
Unit 15: Managing Processes
Objectives: Identify and terminal processes, change the priority of a process, use cron and at to schedule processes
Unit 16: Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel
Objectives: List, load, and remove modules; use kernel arguments
Unit 17: Troubleshooting
Objectives: Understand the boot process, resolve boot problems
Follow up courses and exams
• Red Hat System Administration III & RHCE Exam (RH254 + EX300)
• Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RH318), RHCVA Exam (EX318)
• Red Hat Linux Troubleshooting (RH242)
Audience
• IT professionals who have attended Red Hat System Administration I and want the skills to be full-time enterprise Linux administrators