FastTrack Red Hat 8 System Administrator
Course Code: RHFT1V8
Duration: 5 days
FastTrack Red Hat 8 System Administrator Course Overview
This highly practical instructor led FastTrack Red Hat 8 System Administrator course is designed to give experienced LINUX/UNIX administrators practical experience in the administration of a Red Hat Linux 8 System to the level required by the Red Hat Certified Systems Administration (RHCSA) certification.
System administrators already experienced in administering other LINUX/UNIX systems such as Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, and SUSE will gain valuable skills in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system administration.
This course features a high practical content and will be delivered at a fast pace with a strong emphasis on using the command line. Delegates should have previous command line experience of LINUX/UNIX, including but not limited to; cp, grep, find, mkdir, vim, ssh, tar, gzip and be capable of using man pages.
The delegate will learn modern system administration techniques and commands to administer a Red Hat Linux system. The command line is demonstrated and used extensively throughout the course.
This course is targeted to closely follow the official Red Hat curriculum and makes for an ideal practical refresher course prior to taking the RHCSA examination.
Similarly, the course is targeted to closely follow the official Red Hat curriculum for certification.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
Course Objectives
On completion of the FastTrack Red Hat 8 System Administrator course, the delegate will have a greater technical awareness of the system and will have acquired practical experience of the key administration tasks required to administer a Red Hat Linux system.
Who will the Course Benefit?
This FastTrack Red Hat 8 System Administrator course is suitable for experienced LINUX/UNIX System Administrators who need to acquire knowledge of the key administrative tasks required to administer a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system.
This course will teach many of the necessary skills to enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification.
Skills Gained
The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:
- Access manual pages and HowTo documents
- Shell control characters
- Configure IPv4 and IPv6 networking with Network Manager and ip
- Capture and analyse network packets
- Configure network time
- Manage users and groups on a local system
- Use Cockpit for Administrative Tasks
- Configure the Bash Shell environment
- Control access with extended permissions and file attributes
- Configure file access control lists
- Manage process priorities
- Configure logging and the system journal
- Install and Manage software using rpm and yum
- Configure local repositories
- Analyse and manage SELinux denials
- Modify security contexts for files, ports and Booleans
- Use secure commands to transfer files
- Modify the Red Hat firewall
- Partition disks and create filesystems
- Create encrypted partitions and swap areas
- Manage and create Physical Volumes, Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
- Load and unload kernel modules
- Tune the Linux kernel and create kernel profiles
- Install the Operating System using kickstart
- Manage systemd Targets and Units
- Configure localisation and time zones
- Schedule future tasks using at, cron and anacron
- Configure NFS for server and client operations
- Configure CIFS/Samba server and client operations
- Install and Manage KVM virtual machines
- Deploy Containers using Podman and Buildah
- Troubleshoot Systems
- Recover from a lost root password
FastTrack Red Hat 8 System Administrator Training Course
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: ACCESSING THE SYSTEM
- Logging in and command line access
- Getting help using manual pages and other sources
- Sources of information and HowTo documents
- Shell control characters
- Remote Desktop Access from Windows and Linux systems
- Exercise
Session 2: NETWORKING AND REMOTE SERVICES
- Configuring Network Interfaces and devices
- Controlling Network Devices
- Configuring IPV4 & IPV6 dynamic and static networking
- Capturing and analysing network packets
- Secure communications with SSH
- Configuring the Network Time Protocol
- Connecting NIS and LDAP servers
- Synchronising files with rsync
- Exercise
Session 3: USER AND FILE ADMINISTRATION
- Authentication policies and User Private Groups
- Managing users via the command line and graphical tools
- Password considerations and management
- Managing user profile files
- Extended file permissions
- Configuring Access Control Lists (ACLs)
- Connecting to a centralised administration server
- Exercise
FastTrack Red Hat 8 System Administrator Training Course
Session 4: SYSTEM MONITORING
- Monitor CPU and memory usage
- Checking disk utilisation
- Configuring system logging
- Managing process priorities
- Monitoring system logs
- Analysing and rotating logfiles
- Viewing and configuring the system journal
- Exercise
Session 5: SOFTWARE MANAGEMENT
- Red Hat Package Management system
- Querying and verifying packages
- Dependency problems and resolution
- Updating the Kernel from RPM's
- Other RPM features
- Red Hat Subscription Manager
- Exercise
Session 6: MANAGING SOFTWARE WITH YUM
- Installing and removing packages via yum and dnf
- Rolling back software installations and updates
- Creating and accessing software repositories
- Accessing repositories from a client
- Configuring yum plugins
- Exercise
Session 7: DATA SECURITY
- Managing SELinux contexts, ports and booleans
- Viewing SELinux decisions
- Modifying the SELinux policy
- Configuring SSH
- Copying data to remote systems
- Firewall management with firewalld
- Exercise
FastTrack Red Hat 8 System Administrator Training Course
Session 8: DISK PARTITIONING
- Partitioning disks and creating filesystems
- Checking and repairing filesystems
- Encrypting filesystems with LUKS
- Creating file and partition swap space
- Exercise
Session 9: LVM VOLUMES
- Preparing devices for LVM
- Creating LVM Volume Groups and Logical Volumes
- Resizing and removing LVM filesystems
- Exercise
Session 10: TUNING THE KERNEL
- Kernel design
- Dynamic modules
- Loading and removing modules
- Modifying Kernel configuration
- Dynamic tuning with tuned
- Changing Tuneable Parameters
- Exercise
FastTrack Red Hat 8 System Administrator Training Course
Session 11: INSTALLING RED HAT LINUX USING KICKSTART
- Automating a Red Hat installation
- Creating a Kickstart installation file
- Pre and Post Kickstart processing
- Creating the Linux installation server
- Performing a Kickstart installation via NFS, FTP and HTTP
- Exercise
Session 12: SYSTEMD AND CONTROLLING SERVICES
- The systemd startup procedure
- Control Services using systemctl
- View systemd Units, Targets and Control Groups
- Managing localisation and time zones
- Shutting down and restarting the system
- Exercise
Session 13: SCHEDULING FUTURE TASKS
- Scheduling one-off tasks with at
- Scheduling tasks with cron
- Managing system cron files
- Automating tasks with anacron
- Exercise
Session 14: CONFIGURING NFS AND SAMBA
- Configuring a Network Filesystem Server and client (NFS)
- Configuring AutoFS maps and wildcards
- Configuring a Samba server and client (CIFS)
- Configuring SELinux for Samba
- Exercise
FastTrack Red Hat 8 System Administrator Training Course
Session 15: MANAGING VIRTUAL SYSTEMS
- Virtualisation concepts
- Checking for supported hardware
- Installing a KVM virtual system
- Manage virtual systems via graphical and command line tools
- Start and shutdown a virtual system
- Exercise
Session 16: DEPLOY CONTAINERS WITH PODMAN AND BUILDAH
- Linux Container overview
- Advantages of Containers vs Virtualization
- Replacing Docker with Red Hat Buildah
Session 17: TROUBLESHOOTING
- Understanding the boot process
- Rescue Environment
- Overriding Boot Levels from grub
- Common boot problems and their resolution
- Exercise
APPENDIX A: COMMAND QUICK REFERENCE
- Summary of basic Linux commands
- Summary of administrative commands
APPENDIX B: VIRTUAL DATA OPTIMISER
- VDO overview
- Installing VDO
- Creating a VDO volume
- Increasing Logical and Physical Volume size
- Exercise
- Course technical content is subject to change without notice.
- Course content is structured as sessions, this does not strictly map to course timings. Concepts, content and practicals often span sessions.
Examinations
This training course is an excellent choice for delegates preparing to take the following exam:
- Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA): EX200
This course together with Red Hat 8 System Administration - Part 3: Linux Automation with Ansible course are an excellent choice for delegates preparing to take the following exam:
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE): EX294
Please note, Red Hat certification is only available for RHEL 9 and all exams are performed on RHEL 9.
Attending these courses and studying the associated reference materials can form part of the preparation to achieve certification. Experience, practice, self-study and aptitude are also key requirements for exam success.
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
This course assumes a strong prior knowledge of the Linux operating system, and significant experience working with Linux as a system administrator is recommended.
The delegate will be expected to already understand fundamental Linux computing concepts, to the level covered on the Red Hat 8 System Administration - Part 1 course, as a minimum level requirement for attendance.
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I found this course very engaging and informative. It really helped me get a good understanding of many areas of Linux including many I was not aware existed. The course notes were very thorough. The exercises were both relevant and easy to understand as well as accurate. For the Lecturer himself. Mark did an excellent job of teaching this course, he took it at a very good pace and really made sure I understood the concepts he was teaching. He also allowed plenty of time for me to raise any questions I had as well as taking additional time to work through them with me. Overall a very good course taken by a very good lecturer.
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