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Course Outline

Red Hat System Administration I

RH100 | Day | 5 Days
Bootcamp day course times are 9am - 6pm. Bootcamp night course times are 6pm - 10pm

This course relates to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Red Hat System Administration I is designed for IT professionals without previous Linux administration experience. The course focuses on providing students with Linux administration \"survival skills\" by focusing on core administration tasks.

The topics covered include essential command line tools, installing RHEL, remote administration techniques, managing local storage, system monitoring, basic user and security, administration, connecting to a network and deploying FTP and Web servers.

Red Hat System Administration I provides a foundation for students wishing to become full-time Linux system administrators by introducing key command line concepts and other enterprise-level tools. The Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administration topics covered in this course cover the certification objectives of the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam.

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Who should take this course

This course is intended for IT professionals across a broad range of disciplines that need to perform essential Linux administration tasks including installation, establishing network connectivity, managing physical storage, and basic security administration. Students must be proficient in general computing skills but not necessarily experienced with Linux or Unix.

Course Objectives

Course Outline

  1. Access the command line
    1. Components of a Distribution
    2. Red Hat Linux Products
    3. Logging In
    4. Running Programs
    5. Interacting with Command Line
    6. Desktop Environments
    7. GNOME
    8. got root?
    9. Switching User Contexts
    10. sudo
    11. Lab Tasks
    12. Login and Discovery
    13. Switching Users With su
  2. Manage files from the command line
    1. Managing Files Graphically
    2. Drag and drop with Nautilus
    3. Physical Unix File Structure
    4. Unix/Linux Filesystem Features
    5. Navigating the Filesystem
    6. Displaying Directory Contents
    7. Directory Manipulation
    8. File Manipulation
    9. Deleting and Creating Files
    10. Filesystem Links
    11. Lab Tasks
    12. Navigating Directories and Listing Files
    13. Manipulating Files and Directories
  3. Get help in a textual environment
    1. Gathering Login Session Info
    2. Red Hat Online Documentation
    3. Getting Help Within the Graphical Desktop
    4. Gathering System Info
    5. Help from Commands and Documentation
    6. Getting Help with man & info
    7. Lab Tasks
    8. Help with Commands
  4. Create, view, and edit text files
    1. The gedit Text Editor
    2. Pico/GNU Nano
    3. Pico/Nano Interface
    4. Nano configuration
    5. Pico/Nano Shortcuts
    6. Communication Channels
    7. File Redirection
    8. Piping Commands Together
    9. The Streaming Editor
    10. Text Processing with Awk
    11. Producing File Statistics
    12. Replacing Text Characters
    13. Text Sorting
    14. Duplicate Removal Utility
    15. Extracting Columns of Text
    16. Combining Files and Merging Text
    17. Comparing File Changes
    18. Lab Tasks
    19. Text Editing with Nano
    20. Text Processing
  5. Manage local Linux users and groups
    1. User and Group Concepts
    2. User Administration
    3. Modifying Accounts
    4. Group Administration
    5. User Private Group Scheme
    6. Password Aging
    7. Lab Tasks
    8. User and Group Administration
    9. User Private Groups
  6. Control access to files with Linux file system permissions
    1. File Ownership
    2. File and Directory Permissions
    3. SUID and SGID on files
    4. SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
    5. Changing File Permissions
    6. Lab Tasks
    7. File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
  7. Monitor and manage Linux processes
    1. What is a Process?
    2. Process States
    3. Viewing Processes
    4. System Status – CPU
    5. System Status – Memory
    6. Signals
    7. Tools to Send Signals
    8. Managing Processes
    9. Tuning Process Scheduling
    10. Lab Tasks
    11. Process Management Basics
  8. Control services and daemons
    1. init
    2. Linux Runlevels Aliases
    3. systemd System and Service Manager
    4. systemd Targets
    5. Using systemd
    6. Legacy Support for SysV init
    7. Lab Tasks
    8. Managing Services With Systemd\'s systemctl
    9. Creating a systemd unit file
  9. Configure and secure OpenSSH service
    1. Secure Shell
    2. OpenSSH Client & Server Configuration
    3. Accessing Remote Shells
    4. Transferring Files
    5. Alternative sftp Clients
    6. SSH Key Management
    7. ssh-agent
    8. Lab Tasks
    9. Introduction to ssh and scp
    10. SSH Key-based User Authentication
    11. Using ssh-agent
  10. Analyzing and Storing Logs
    1. System Logging
    2. systemd Journal
    3. systemd Journal\'s journalctl
    4. Secure Logging with Journal\'s Log Sealing
    5. gnome-system-log
    6. Syslog-ng
    7. Rsyslog
    8. /etc/rsyslog.conf
    9. Log Management
    10. Log Anomaly Detector
    11. Lab Tasks
    12. Using the systemd Journal
    13. Setting up a Full Debug Logfile
    14. Remote Syslog Configuration
  11. Manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux networking
    1. IPv4 Fundamentals
    2. TCP/UDP Fundamentals
    3. Linux Network Interfaces
    4. Ethernet Hardware Tools
    5. Network Configuration with ip Command
    6. Starting and Stopping Interfaces
    7. Configuring Routing Tables
    8. IP to MAC Address Mapping with ARP
    9. DNS Clients
    10. DHCP Clients
    11. Continual Time Sync with NTP
    12. Network Diagnostics
    13. NetworkManager
    14. Lab Tasks
    15. Network Discovery
    16. Basic Client Networking
    17. Introduction to Troubleshooting Labs
    18. Troubleshooting Practice: Networking
  12. Archive and copy files between systems
    1. Archives with tar
    2. Archives with cpio
    3. The gzip Compression Utility
    4. The bzip2 Compression Utility
    5. The XZ Compression Utility
    6. The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format
    7. Lab Tasks
    8. Archiving and Compression
    9. Using rsync and ssh for Backups
  13. Install and update software packages
    1. Managing Software
    2. RPM Features
    3. RPM Architecture
    4. RPM Package Files
    5. Working With RPMs
    6. Querying and Verifying with RPM
    7. Managing Software Dependencies
    8. Using the Yum command
    9. YUM package groups
    10. Updating the Kernel RPM
    11. Dealing With RPM & Yum Digest Changes
    12. YUM Repositories
    13. YUM Repository Groups
    14. Yum Plugins & RHN Subscription Manager
    15. Lab Tasks
    16. Managing Software with RPM
    17. Querying the RPM Database
    18. Using Yum
  14. Access Linux file systems
    1. Filesystem Creation
    2. Mounting Filesystems
    3. Mounting Filesystems
    4. Filesystem Maintenance
    5. Managing an XFS Filesystem
    6. Persistent Block Devices
    7. Filesystem Structures
    8. Determining Disk Usage With df and du
    9. Filesystem Table (/etc/fstab)
    10. Lab Tasks
    11. Creating and Managing Filesystems
  15. Manage virtual machines
    1. Introducing libvirt
    2. libvirt: Basic Concepts
    3. libvirt: Storage Architecture
    4. libvirt: Network Architecture
    5. libvirt: Graphical Tools
    6. libvirt: Command Line Tools
    7. virsh: Basics
    8. virsh: Common Tasks
    9. virt-install
    10. Virtual Machine Guest Tools & Drivers
    11. libguestfs and guestfish
    12. Lab Tasks
    13. Installing a Virtual Machine
  16. Comprehensive review
    1. System Administration I
    2. Lab Tasks
    3. Understand And Use Essential Tools
    4. Operate Running Systems
    5. Users, Groups, and File Permissions
    6. Control and monitor network services and system daemons using systemd.