GL904 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Admin II (Custom)

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This GL904 course is designed to follow a similar set of topics as the Red Hat® RH134 course with the added benefit of very comprehensive lab exercises and detailed lecture material.

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system administration topics covered in this course along with the GL903 course cover the certification objects of the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam.

The topics covered include automating installation with Kickstart, intermediate and advanced level command line building blocks and tools, troubleshooting, network file sharing server configuration, connecting to a directory service, managing advanced security settings, maintenance tasks, and kernel tuning.

Current Version: A00

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Prerequisites:

Completion of or skills equal to the GL903 "Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Administration II" course.

Supported Distributions:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Recommended Class Length:
5 days
Detailed Course Outline:
  1. Pre-Installation Considerations
    1. Pre-Installation Considerations
    2. Hardware Compatibility
    3. Multi-OS Booting
    4. Partition Considerations
    5. Filesystem Planning
    6. Selecting a Filesystem
  2. Automated installation with Kickstart
    1. Kickstart
    2. Anaconda: An Overview
    3. Anaconda: Booting the System
    4. Anaconda: Common Boot Options
    5. Anaconda: Loading Anaconda and Packages
    6. Anaconda: Storage Options
    7. Anaconda: Troubleshooting
    Lab Tasks
    1. Linux Installation
    2. Automating Installation with Kickstart
  3. Use regular expressions with grep
    1. Searching Inside Files
    2. The Streaming Editor
    3. Regular Expression Overview
    4. Regular Expressions
    5. RE Character Classes
    6. Regex Quantifiers
    7. RE Parenthesis
    Lab Tasks
    1. Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
    2. Extended Regular Expressions
    3. Using Regular Expressions With sed
  4. Create and edit text files with Vim
    1. Text Editing
    2. vi and Vim
    3. Learning Vim
    4. Basic vi
    5. Intermediate vi
    Lab Tasks
    1. Text Editing with Vim
  5. Schedule future Linux tasks
    1. Automating Tasks
    2. at/batch
    3. cron
    4. The crontab Command
    5. crontab Format
    6. /etc/cron.*/ Directories
    7. Anacron
    Lab Tasks
    1. Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
    2. Adding System cron Jobs
  6. Manage priority of Linux processes
    1. Viewing Processes
    2. Managing Processes
    3. Tuning Process Scheduling
    Lab Tasks
    1. Process Management Basics
  7. Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM)
    1. PAM Overview
    2. PAM Module Types
    3. PAM Order of Processing
    4. PAM Control Statements
    5. PAM Modules
    6. pam_unix
    7. pam_nologin.so
    8. pam_limits.so
    9. pam_wheel.so
    10. pam_xauth.so
    Lab Tasks
    1. Restricting superuser access to wheel group membership
    2. Using pam_nologin to Restrict Logins
    3. Setting Limits with the pam_limits Modules
    4. Using pam_limits to Restrict Simultaneous Logins
  8. Control access to files with access control lists (ACL)
    1. File and Directory Permissions
    2. File Access Control Lists
    3. Manipulating FACLs
    4. Viewing FACLs
    5. Backing Up FACLs
    Lab Tasks
    1. Using Filesystem ACLs
  9. Manage SELinux security
    1. SELinux Security Framework
    2. SELinux Modes
    3. SELinux Commands
    4. Choosing an SELinux Policy
    5. SELinux Booleans
    6. Permissive Domains
    7. SELinux Policy Tools
    8. SELinux Troubleshooting
    9. SELinux Troubleshooting Continued
    Lab Tasks
    1. Exploring SELinux Modes
    2. SELinux File Contexts
  10. Connect to network-defined users and groups
    1. system-config-authentication
    2. System Security Services Daemon (SSSD)
    Lab Tasks
    1. Using LDAP for Centralized User Accounts
  11. Add disks, partitions, and file systems to a Linux system
    1. Partitioning Disks with fdisk & gdisk
    2. Resizing a GPT Partition with gdisk
    3. Partitioning Disks with parted
    4. Filesystem Creation
    5. Filesystem Maintenance
    6. Managing an XFS Filesystem
    7. Swap
    Lab Tasks
    1. Creating and Managing Filesystems
    2. Hot Adding Swap
  12. Backups
    1. Backup Software
    2. Managing Optical Media
    3. Tape Libraries
    4. Backup Examples
    Lab Tasks
    1. Using rsync and ssh for Backups
    2. Using tar for Backups
    3. Using cpio for Backups
    4. Creating ISO Images for Backups
    5. Using dump and restore for Backups
  13. Manage logical volume management (LVM) storage
    1. Logical Volume Management
    2. Implementing LVM
    3. Creating Logical Volumes
    4. Manipulating VGs & LVs
    5. Advanced LVM Concepts
    6. gnome-disk-utility
    Lab Tasks
    1. Creating and Managing LVM Volumes
  14. Manage Software RAID
    1. RAID Concepts
    2. Array Creation with mdadm
    3. Software RAID Monitoring
    4. Software RAID Control and Display
    Lab Tasks
    1. Creating and Managing a RAID-5 Array
  15. Access networked attached storage with network file system (NFS)
    1. File Sharing via NFS
    2. NFSv4+
    3. NFS Clients
    4. NFS
    5. NFS Server Configuration
    Lab Tasks
    1. NFS Server Configuration
  16. Access networked attached storage with SMB
    1. Accessing Windows/Samba Shares from Linux
    2. AutoFS
    3. AutoFS Configuration
    Lab Tasks
    1. Using autofs
  17. Linux Kernel & Devices
    1. Hardware Discovery Tools
    2. Kernel Hardware Info – /sys/
    3. /sys/ Structure
    4. udev
    5. Managing Linux Device Files
    6. List Block Devices
    7. SCSI Devices
    8. USB Devices
    9. USB Configuration
    10. Kernel Modules
    11. Configuring Kernel Components and Modules
    12. Handling Module Dependencies
    13. Configuring the Kernel via /proc/
    14. Console
    15. Virtual Terminals
    16. Serial Ports
    17. Random Numbers and /dev/random
    Lab Tasks
    1. Adjusting Kernel Options
    2. Introduction to Troubleshooting Labs
    3. Troubleshooting Practice: Kernel Modules
  18. Control and troubleshoot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot process
    1. System Boot Method Overview
    2. systemd System and Service Manager
    3. systemd Targets
    4. Using systemd
    5. Legacy Support for SysV init
    6. Booting Linux on PCs
    7. GRUB 2
    8. GRUB 2 Configuration
    9. GRUB 2 Security
    10. Boot Parameters
    11. Initial RAM Filesystem
    12. init
    13. Linux Runlevels Aliases
    14. Systemd local-fs.target and sysinit.target
    15. Systemd basic.target and multi-user.target
    16. Legacy local bootup script support
    17. System Configuration Files
    18. RHEL7 Configuration Utilities
    19. Shutdown and Reboot
    Lab Tasks
    1. Boot Process
    2. Booting directly to a bash shell
    3. GRUB Command Line
    4. Basic GRUB Security
    5. Managing Services With Systemd's systemctl
    6. Troubleshooting Practice: Boot Process
  19. Linux network communication with firewall
    1. Netfilter: Stateful Packet Filter Firewall
    2. Netfilter Concepts
    3. Using the iptables Command
    4. Netfilter Rule Syntax
    5. Targets
    6. Common match_specs
    7. Connection Tracking
    8. FirewallD
    Lab Tasks
    1. Securing Services with Netfilter
    2. FirewallD
  20. Comprehensive review
    1. System Administration II
    Lab Tasks
    1. Understand And Use Essential Tools
    2. Operate Running Systems
    3. Configure Local Storage and Filesystems
    4. Users, Groups, and File Permissions
    5. Maintenance and Recovery
  1. Emacs
    1. Emacs
    2. The Emacs Interface
    3. Basic Emacs
    4. More Emacs Commands
    Lab Tasks
    1. Text Editing with Emacs