FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer

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FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer Course Overview

This highly practical instructor led training FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer course is designed to give experienced LINUX/UNIX administrators practical experience in the administration of a Red Hat LINUX system to a level required by the Red Hat Certified Engineer certification.  This course is targeted to closely follow the official Red Hat curriculum and will enable the student to work towards the RHCE qualifications.

This class will have a high, practical content and will be very fast paced.   Delegates should have a strong command line experience of UNIX/LINUX and have good knowledge of all the topics covered in the Administering Red Hat Linux - Part I and Part II courses.  Sessions on this course covering topics from Part I and Part II will be covered very rapidly with the sole purpose of brief revision of these areas.

Skills Gained

The delegates will have knowledge in all, and practise in some, of the following:

  • Configure and test Network Interfaces
  • Install the Operating System using manual and kickstart methods
  • Install and Manage KVM virtual machines
  • Install and Manage software using rpm, yum and RHN
  • Configure encrypted Partitions, File Systems, iSCSI initiator and Swap space
  • Manage Logical Volumes
  • Administer password ageing, ACL's, SUID's and SGID's
  • Configure an LDAP and Kerberos client
  • Configure an NFS server and implement autofs
  • Understand the Boot process and change run levels
  • Schedule 'cron' and 'at' jobs
  • Secure systems using SELinux, Firewalls
  • Configure a Network Time Protocol Service
  • Configure System Logging
  • Configure an Apache Web Server and FTP server
  • Manage a SMTP email service
  • Configure a caching nameserver
  • Use CIFS to share data and printers
  • Configure Printers using CUPS
  • Manage Processes
  • Configure and implement ssh
  • Configure secure remote VNC desktops

Who will the Course Benefit?

The FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer course is suitable for very experienced LINUX/UNIX System Administrators who need to acquire knowledge of the advanced administrative tasks required to administer a Red Hat LINUX system.  This course will teach the necessary skills to enable the student to work towards the RHCE certification route.

This course assumes a strong prior knowledge of the LINUX/UNIX operating system.  The content of the Administering Red Hat Linux Part I and II courses will be the minimum level of knowledge required for attendance on this course.

Students who have completed the FastTrack to Red Hat Linux System Administrator course should instead attend the Administering Red Hat Linux III course.

This course will also be of benefit to those students wishing to have some final practical experience prior to taking the Red Hat Certified Engineer exam.

Course Objectives

On completion of the FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer course, the delegate will have a greater technical awareness of the system and will have acquired practical experience of intermediate and advanced administration duties of the Red Hat Linux system.  They will possess the essential knowledge required to study towards taking the official Red Hat Certified Systems Engineer exam.

Examinations

This course is targeted to closely follow the official Red Hat curriculum, and thus will enable the student to work towards the Red Hat Certified Systems Engineer (RHCE) qualification.

Before taking any exam, ensure you have the recommended experience.  The Red Hat website lists all exam requirements and these are updated regularly.

Exams are not included as part of the course.

Requirements

Very experienced Linux/UNIX Administrators with a minimum knowledge of all the topics covered on Administering Red Hat Linux I and II courses.

Pre-Requisite Courses

Follow-On Courses

NOTE: Course technical content is subject to change without notice.

FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

  • Administration and Course Materials
  • Course Structure and Agenda
  • Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: INSTALLING A SYSTEM AND IMPLEMENTING VIRTUALISATION

  • Virtualisation concepts
  • Installation methods available
  • The RHEL Installer: anaconda
  • Performing the installation using kickstart
  • Firstboot and post installation
  • Install a virtual system
  • Checking for supported hardware
  • Creating a Network Bridge
  • Configuring a KVM virtual network
  • Start and shutdown a virtual system
  • Exercises

Session 2: 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
  • Updating using Red Hat Network
  • The YUM management tool
  • The software repositories
  • Accessing repositories from a client
  • Use yum plugins to manage packages
  • Understand the design of a package
  • Build a simple package
  • Exercise

Session 3: NETWORK MANAGEMENT

  • Configuring Network Interfaces
  • Controlling Network Devices: ifup/ifdown
  • Configuring IPV4 dynamic and static networking
  • Network Tools ifconfig, ethtool etc
  • Controlling Services using chkconfig
  • The 'service' command
  • Connecting NIS and LDAP clients to corresponding servers
  • Linking to a system using ssh and rsync
  • Configure Ethernet Bonding
  • Network diagnosis tools : tcpdump, netstat, wireshark,etc
  • Configuring Static and Dynamic Routing
  • Configuring the system as a Gateway
  • Customising network parameters
  • IPV6 Overview
  • Exercise

Session 4: MANAGE LOGICAL VOLUMES and SWAP

  • Understand disk partitioning
  • Basic LVM design and configuration
  • The Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
  • Creating LVM based file systems
  • Mounting and un-mounting file systems
  • Handling Removable Media
  • File System attributes
  • LUKS encrypted partitions
  • Extending LVM file systems
  • LVM Snapshots
  • Swap space management
  • Exercise

FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 5: 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
  • Configuring a Kerberos client
  • Exercise

Session 6: CHANGING RUN LEVELS

  • The init program and run levels
  • The boot Sequence explained
  • The grub boot managers
  • Recovering root password
  • The /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit Program
  • The Startup Script Model
  • Control Services using chkconfig, ntsysv etc.
  • System Shutdown and Reboot management
  • Exercise

Session 7: PRINTERS

  • Creating printer queues using CUPS
  • Administering CUPS using the Web Browser interface
  • Managing printers using the Red Hat Tools
  • Creating print requests
  • Managing printer queues
  • Adding a Windows(SMB) printer
  • Configuring a Firewall for Network Printing

Session 8: PROCESS SCHEDULING

  • Using nice and renice commands
  • Using 'at' to manage one-off jobs
  • Using the cron system
  • System crontab files
  • Monitoring cron access
  • Controlling access to the 'cron' and 'at' facilities
  • Using anacron
  • Exercise

FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 9: CONFIGURING AND MANAGING SELINUX

  • SELinux
  • Management of SELinux
  • Easy configuration and customisation of SELinux
  • Context types
  • semanage, getsebool, setsebool and chcon commands
  • SELinux log files
  • Exercise

Session 10: SHARING FILES ACROSS THE NETWORK

  • Configure file sharing using NFS and autofs
  • Manage NFS service
  • Configure file sharing between hosts with CIFS
  • Configure file sharing using Anonymous FTP
  • Exercise

Session 11: CONFIGURING NETWORK TIME PROTOCOLS

  • Stratum Levels
  • NTP configuration file
  • Allowing NTP connections
  • Syncing considerations
  • Exercise

Session 12: DNS

  • The DNS/BIND system under RedHat Linux
  • Name Server Hierarchy
  • Setting up DNS
  • Master/Slave Zones
  • Reverse lookup Zones
  • Record types and their syntax
  • Name Daemon Control Utility (rndc)
  • Address Match Lists (acl)
  • Configuring a Caching Only Name Server
  • DNS in a chroot environment
  • BIND Checking Utilities
  • Exercise

Session 13: SSL AND WEB SERVER CONFIGURATION

  • Data Security and Encryption
  • Encryption Methods and Digital Certificates
  • Generating keys
  • The Apache and Tux Web Servers
  • Apache server configuration files
  • Apache Configuration Directives
  • Virtual Host Management: Name and IP Based Access
  • CGI Programs and Apache modules
  • HTTP and SELinux
  • Configuring https
  • Dynamically configured virtual hosts
  • Exercise

FastTrack to Red Hat Linux Engineer Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 14: SYSTEM MONITORING

  • System Log Files
  • Syslogd and klogd Configuration
  • Advanced syslogd Configuration
  • Configuring remote logging - rsyslog
  • Analysing and rotating logfiles
  • Exercise

Session 15: SECURING NETWORK TRAFFIC

  • Netfilter - iptables
  • IPV6 Overview
  • Packet Filtering using iptables
  • Rule Targets
  • Basic Rules and their Operation
  • Connection Tracking
  • Network Address Translation
  • Exercise

Session 16: Basic Mail Server Configuration

  • Email Components
  • Mail User, Mail Transport and Mail User Agents
  • Configuring sendmail and postfix
  • Sendmail Configuration Files
  • Sendmail Configuration with the m4 Macro Language
  • Outbound smarthost relay
  • Accepting Inbound Connections
  • Macro Definitions
  • Switching to postfix, a sendmail replacement
  • Postfix Configuration
  • Postfix Null Client
  • Procmail delivery agent
  • Dovecot - POP and IMAP services
  • Exercise

Session 17: INSTALLING RED HAT 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

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