Red Hat System Administration II

Course Overview

This course goes deeper into enterprise Linux administration including file systems and partitioning, logical volumes, SELinux, firewalling, and troubleshooting. Attending both Red Hat System Administration I and Red Hat System Administration II can help you in your preparation for the Red Hat Certified System Administrator exam (EX200).

Course Schedule

Request Group Training

Target Audience

For Any IT professional who wants to become Linux? administrator.

Course Prerequisites

Red Hat System Administration I

Expected Accomplishments

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

Automate installations using Kickstart

Manage file systems and logical volumes

Manage scheduled jobs

Access network file systems

Manage SELinux

Control firewalls

Perform troubleshooting tasks

Course Outline

Automate installation with Kickstart

Automate the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems with Kickstart.

Use regular expressions with grep

Write regular expressions that, when partnered with grep, will allow you to quickly isolate or locate content within text files.

Create and Edit text files with vim

Introduce the vim text editor, with which you can open, edit, and save text files.

Schedule future Linux tasks

Schedule tasks to automatically execute in the future.

Manage priority of Linux processes

Influence the relative priorities at which Linux processes run.

Control access to files with access control lists (ACL)

Manage file security using POSIX access control lists.

Manage SELinux security

Manage the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) behavior of a system to keep it secure in case of a network service compromise.

Connect to network-defined users and groups

Configure systems to use central identity management services.

Add disks, partitions, and file systems to a Linux system

Manage simple partitions and file systems.

Manage logical volume management (LVM) storage

Manage logical volumes from the command line.

Access networked attached storage with network file system (NFS)

Access (secure) NFS shares.

Access networked storage with SMB

Use autofs and the command line to mount and unmount SMB file systems.

Control and troubleshoot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot process

Limit network communication with firewall

Configure a basic firewall.

Comprehensive review

Practice and demonstrate knowledge and skills learned in this course.