Course Description
For users of Linux (or UNIX) who want to start building skills in systems administration on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, to a level where they can attach and configure a workstation on an existing network. See complete details below.

Prerequisites:

• RH033 Red Hat Linux Essentials or
• or equivalent experience with Red Hat Linux.

Goal:
An operator who can perform system administration tasks to a level where he/she can install, configure, and attach a new Red Hat Linux workstation to an existing network.
Audience:
Linux or UNIX users, who understand the basics of Red Hat Linux, that desire further technical training to begin the process of becoming a system administrator.

Prepares for:

• RH202 RHCT Exam
• RH253 Red Hat Linux Networking and Security Administration

What you will learn:
Unit 1 - Administrative Access

• Configure and access various consoles directly, remotely with ssh, and with virt-manager.
• Configure privilege escalation with sudo.

Unit 2 - Package Management

• Manage software on system using yum, Red Hat Network, and rpm.

Unit 3 - System Services and Security

• Configure and manage system logging, time synchronization, printers, and task automation.
• Troubleshoot SELinux.

Unit 4 - System Initialization

• Define boot process, recover system, and manage service startup.

Unit 5 - Kernel Monitoring and Configuration

• Explore kernel modules and variants, tune kernel parameters, manage devices, and monitor processes and resources.

Unit 6 - Network Configuration

• Configure dynamic and static network settings for IPv4 and filter packets.

Unit 7 - Filesystem Administration

• Review filesystem management concepts, removable media and configure NFS shares with autofs.

Unit 8 - Additional Storage

• Expand storage by adding new filesystems and swap space.

Unit 9 - User Administration

• Create, modify and delete users, groups, and policy.
• Protect users and groups with quotas.

Unit 10 - Filesystems for Group Collaboration

• Establish collaborative group directories.
• Protect users and groups with ACLs.

Unit 11 - Centralized User Administration

• Revisit user administration by connecting to network directory services like NIS and LDAP.

Unit 12 - Software RAID

• Manage filesystems using Software RAID and recover an array.

Unit 13 - Logical Volume Management

• Manage filesystems using Logical Volume Management.
• Resize filesystems and protect them with LVM Snapshots.

Unit 14 - Virtualization and Automated Installation

• Perform automated installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Create para-virtualized user domains in Xen.

Unit 15 - Troubleshooting with Rescue Mode

• Explore troubleshooting methodologies.
• Utilize the rescue environment of anaconda.