FastTrack to Red Hat Linux 7 System

Administrator
Overview:
This highly practical instructor led FastTrack to Red Hat Linux 7 System Administrator course is designed to give
experienced LINUX/UNIX administrators practical experience in the administration of a LINUX system to a level
required by the Red Hat Certified Systems Administration certification. This course is targeted to closely follow
the official Red Hat curriculum and will enable the student to work towards the RHCSA qualifications. This class
will have a high, practical content and a fast pace. Delegates should have a strong command line experience of
UNIX/LINUX including cp, grep, mkdir, ssh, tar, useradd, cups, be capable of using man pages and DHCP, to name
just a few. This course can also be used as a practical refresher course prior to taking the RHCSA examination.

Pre-Requisites:
This course assumes a strong prior knowledge of the LINUX/UNIX operating system. The content of the
Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 1 course is the minimum level of knowledge required for attendance on this
course. Delegates should be experienced Linux/UNIX Administrators.

Duration:
7 days

Modules:
Course Introduction
Administration and Course Materials
Course Structure and Agenda
Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: ACCESSING THE SYSTEM

Logging in and command line access
Getting Help - man pages, info, /usr/share/doc
Sources of information available on the WEB
Remote Desktop Access

Session 2: BASIC CLIENT NETWORKING

Configuring Network Interfaces
Controlling Network Devices: ifup/ifdown
Configuring IPV4 dynamic and static networking
Network Tools ifconfig, ethtool etc
Configuring basic NTP
Connecting NIS and LDAP clients to corresponding servers
Linking to a system using ssh and rsync
Exercise

Session 3: USER AND FILE ADMINISTRATION

Authentication policies and User Private Groups
Password management using passwd, chage etc
Managing user profile files
Extended file permissions including suid, sgid
 Access Control List (ACL's)
Switching to another user
Connecting to a centralized administration server
Exercise

Session 4: SYSTEM MONITORING

Monitor CPU and memory usage
Check disk utilization
System Log Files
Monitor system logs
rsyslogd
Analyzing and rotating log files
Exercise

Session 5: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT

The Red Hat Package Management system
Installing removing software manually using rpm
RPM queries and verifying packages
Dependency problems and resolution
Updating the Kernel from RPM's
Other RPM features
Exercise

Session 6: MANAGING SOFTWARE WITH YUM

The YUM management tool
Software repositories
Accessing repositories from a client
Updating your system with Red Hat Network

Session 7: DATA SECURITY

SELinux
Management of SELinux
Easy configuration and customization of SELinux
Configuring and using ssh and scp
Basic Firewall management
Exercise

Session 8: DISK PARTITIONING

Understand and configure disk partitioning
LUKS encrypted partitions
Exercise

Session 9: LVM VOLUMES

Basic LVM design and configuration
The Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
Creating LVM file systems
Resizing LVM file systems
LVM Snapshots
Exercise

Session 10: MAINTAINING THE KERNEL

Kernel Design
 Dynamic Modules
Loading and removing modules
Using kernel arguments
Changing Tuneable Parameters
Exercise

Session 11: INSTALLING RED HAT LINUX USING KICKSTART

How Kickstart works
Sections within a Kickstart configuration file
Pre and Post Kickstart processing
Creating a Kickstart file
Creating the Linux Install Server
Differing ways of starting a Kickstart installation
Exercise

Session 12: USING SYSTEMD AND CONTROLLING SERVICES

The systemd deamon
Control Services using systemctl etc.
System Shutdown and Reboot management

Session 13: MANAGING VIRTUAL SYSTEMS

Virtualization concepts
Install a KVM virtual system
Checking for supported hardware
Start and shutdown a virtual system
Exercise

Session 14: ACCESSING DATA ON REMOTE SYSTEMS

Configuring client access to an Network File system Server (NFS)
Providing CIFS access
Configuring autofs
Exercise

Session 15: TROUBLESHOORTING

Understanding the boot process
The Rescue Environment
Overriding Boot Levels from grub
Common boot problems and their resolution
Exercise