This five-day instructor-led course provides participants intensive hands-on training on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Participants attending this course should have completed course: RH033 Red Hat Linux Essentials or have equivalent experience with Red Hat Linux.
After completing this course, students will be able to install, configure and attach a new Red Hat Linux system to an existing production network.
Module 1: Package Management
• Manage software on system using yum, Red Hat Network, and rpm.
Module 2: System Initialization
• Define boot process, recover system, and manage service startup.
Module 3: Kernel Services
• Explore kernel modules and variants, tune kernel parameters, manage devices, and monitor processes and resources.
Module 4: System Services
• Configure and access various consoles to manage system logging, time synchronization, printers, and task automation.
Module 5: Filesystem Management
• Expand storage by adding new filesystems and swap space. Configure autofs for on-demand network storage.
Module 6: User Administration
• Create, modify and delete users, groups, and policy. Escalate privileges. Establish collaborative group directories.
Module 7: Network Configuration
• Configure dynamic and static network settings for both IPv4 and IPv6.
Module 8: Advanced User Administration
• Revisit user administration by connecting to network directory services like NIS and LDAP. Protect users and groups through ACLs, quotas, and SELinux.
Module 9: Advanced Filesystem Management
• Back up your data. Manage filesystems using Software RAID and Logical Volume Management.
Module 10: Installation
• Perform both interactive and automated installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Module 11: Virtualization with Xen
• Install the xen environment and create a para-virtualized user domain running Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Module 12: Troubleshooting
• Explore troubleshooting methodologies while defining standard things to check. Maintain system from different runlevels. Utilize the rescue environment of anaconda.
The target audience for this course is Linux or UNIX users who understand the basics of Red Hat Linux and desire further technical training to become a systems administrator.
Students attending this course should have completed the RH033 Red Hat Linux Essentials course or have the equivalent experience with Red Hat Linux.
