Red Hat® System Administration II (RH134)

Course Duration

5 days

Audience

Employees of federal, state and local governments; and businesses working with the government.

Prerequisites

Red Hat® System Administration I (RH124)

Course Description

This course is for individuals who have completed Red Hat System Administration I (RH124). It focuses on the key tasks needed to become a full-time administrator of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. You will examine enterprise Linux administration including file systems and partitioning, logical volumes, SELinux, firewalling, and troubleshooting. Attending both Red Hat® System Administration I (RH124) and Red Hat®System Administration II (RH134) can help you in your preparation for the Red Hat Certified System Administrator Exam (EX200).

Learning Objectives

• Installation using Kickstart
• Managing filesystems and logical volumes
• Managing scheduled jobs
• Accessing network filesystems
• Managing SELinux
• Controlling firewalling
• Troubleshooting

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

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