Course Code: 2352

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Admin II

Class Dates:
5/19/2025
6/16/2025
8/18/2025
Length:
5 Days
Cost:
$2795.00
Class Time:
Technology:
Virtualization
Delivery:
Instructor-Led Training, Virtual Instructor-Led Training

Overview

  • Course Overview
  • The Red Hat Enterprise Linux System Administration II course builds upon the foundational skills acquired in the first administration course , diving deeper into more complex system administration tasks. This course is tailored for IT professionals looking to enhance their skills in managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments by covering advanced topics such as shell scripting, managing SELinux security, and working with network-attached storage. By focusing on real-world applications, the course ensures that participants are well-equipped to handle the intricacies of enterprise-level system administration.

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

    Supported Distributions: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9, Current Version: R9-D00
  • Audience
  • Senior System Administrators: Advanced professionals responsible for managing and securing complex Linux environments.
    DevOps Engineers: Engineers who integrate and automate processes within Linux systems, focusing on scalability and efficiency.
    IT Security Specialists: Experts focused on enhancing the security posture of Linux systems, particularly through SELinux and other security measures.
    Cloud Infrastructure Engineers: Professionals managing cloud-based Linux systems, ensuring robust and scalable infrastructure.
    Network Engineers: Specialists responsible for configuring and maintaining Linux-based network services and storage solutions.

Prerequisites

Course Disclaimer

*Course Cost listed does not include the cost of courseware or exam. Course is subject to a minimum enrollment to run. Course may run virtually as a Virtual Instructor-Led (VILT) class if the minimum enrollment is not met. If the course is under the minimum enrollment the course may run as 4 day class (Bootcamp Style).

Course Details

  • INTRODUCTION TO SHELL SCRIPTING
  • Shell Script Strengths and Weaknesses
  • Example Shell Script, Positional Parameters
  • Input & Output, Doing Math, Exit Status
  • Comparisons with test
  • Conditional Statements
  • Flow Control: case
  • The borne for-Loop
  • The while and until Loops
  • Lab Tasks
  • Writing a Shell Script
  • USE REGULAR EXPRESSIONS WITH GREP
  • Searching Inside Files
  • Regular Expression Overview
  • Regular Expression Implementations
  • Regular Expressions, RE Character Classes
  • Regex Quantifiers
  • RE Parenthesis
  • Lab Tasks
  • Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
  • Extended Regular Expressions
  • Using Regular Expressions With sed
  • SCHEDULE FUTURE LINUX TASKS
  • Automating Tasks
  • at/batch, cron, The crontab Command
  • crontab Format, /etc/cron.*/ Directories
  • Anacron, Systemd Timers
  • Lab Tasks
  • Creating and Managing User Cron Jobs
  • Adding System cron Jobs
  • MANAGE PRIORITY OF LINUX PROCESSES
  • Viewing Processes
  • Managing Processes
  • Tuning Process Scheduling
  • Lab Tasks
  • Process Management Basics
  • CONTROL ACCESS TO FILES WITH ACCESS CONTROL LISTS (ACL)
  • File and Directory Permissions
  • File Access Control Lists
  • Manipulating FACLs
  • Viewing FACLs
  • Backing Up FACLs
  • Lab Tasks
  • Using Filesystem ACLs
  • MANAGE SELINUX SECURITY
  • SELinux Security Framework
  • SELinux Modes and Commands
  • Choosing an SELinux Policy
  • SELinux Booleans, Permissive Domains
  • SELinux Policy Tools and Troubleshooting
  • Lab Tasks
  • Exploring SELinux Modes
  • SELinux File Contexts
  • CONNECT TO NETWORK-DEFINED USERS AND GROUPS
  • RHEL DS Client Configuration
  • System Security Services Daemon (SSSD)
  • Lab Tasks
  • Using LDAP for Centralized User Accounts
  • ADD DISKS, PARTITIONS, AND FILE SYSTEMS TO A LINUX SYSTEM
  • Partitioning Disks with fdisk & gdisk
  • Resizing a GPT Partition with gdisk
  • Partitioning Disks with parted
  • Non-Interactive Disk Partitioning with sfdisk
  • Filesystem Creation
  • Filesystem Maintenance
  • Managing an XFS Filesystem
  • Swap
  • Lab Tasks
  • Creating and Managing Filesystems
  • Hot Adding Swap
  • MANAGE LOGICAL VOLUME MANAGEMENT (LVM) STORAGE
  • Logical Volume Management, Implementing LVM
  • Creating Logical Volumes, Activating LVM VGs
  • Exporting and Importing a VG, Examining LVM Components
  • Changing LVM Components, Advanced LVM Overview
  • Advanced LVM: Components & Object Tags
  • Advanced LVM: Automated Storage Tiering
  • Advanced LVM: Thin Provisioning
  • Advanced LVM: Striping & Mirroring
  • Advanced LVM: RAID Volumes
  • Lab Tasks
  • Creating and Managing LVM Volumes
  • ACCESS AND MANAGE NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE
  • File Sharing via NFS
  • NFSv4+, NFS Clients, NFS, NFS Server Configuration
  • Accessing Windows/Samba Shares from Linux
  • AutoFS, AutoFS Configuration
  • Lab Tasks
  • NFS Server Configuration, Using autofs
  • CONTROL AND TROUBLESHOOT THE RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX BOOT PROCESS
  • Booting Linux on PCs
  • GRUB 2, GRUB 2 Configuration
  • The Boot Loader Specification, GRUB 2 Security
  • Boot Parameters, Initial RAM Filesystem
  • System Boot Method Overview, init
  • systemd Targets
  • Systemd local-fs.target and sysinit.target
  • Systemd basic.target and multi-user.target
  • System Configuration Files
  • Shutdown and Reboot, Linux Runlevels Aliases
  • Lab Tasks, Boot Process, Booting directly to a bash shell
  • GRUB Command Line, Basic GRUB Security, Troubleshooting Practice: Boot Process
  • LINUX NETWORK COMMUNICATION WITH FIREWALL
  • Netfilter: Stateful Packet Filter Firewall
  • Netfilter Concepts, nftables
  • NFT: Tables, Chains, Rules
  • Netfilter Rule Syntax
  • Rule Counters, Targets, FirewallD
  • CONTAINER TECHNOLOGY OVERVIEW
  • Container Fundamentals
  • Daemonless Containers
  • Podman, Podman Configuration, Images, Volumes
  • Podman Networking
  • Rootless Podman
  • Podman and Pods
  • Building Images with Buildah
  • Managing Images with Skopeo
  • Lab Tasks
  • Podman , Podman Networking
  • Podman and Pods
  • INSTALLING RHEL
  • Anaconda: An Overview, Booting the System
  • Anaconda: Common Boot Options
  • Anaconda: Loading Anaconda and Packages
  • Anaconda: Storage Options
  • Anaconda: Troubleshooting
  • Kickstart
  • Lab Tasks
  • Linux Installation
  • Automating Installation with Kickstart
  • COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
  • System Administration II
  • Labs
  • Understand And Use Essential Tools
  • Operate Running Systems
  • Configure Local Storage and Filesystems
  • Users, Groups, and File Permissions
  • Maintenance and Recovery