Course Code: 2352

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Admin II

Class Dates:
1/20/2025
2/17/2025
3/17/2025
4/21/2025
Length:
4 Days
Cost:
$2495.00
Class Time:
Technology:
Virtualization
Delivery:
Instructor-Led Training, Virtual Instructor-Led Training

Overview

  • Course Overview
  • The topics covered include automating installation with Kickstart, intermediate and advanced level command line building blocks and tools, troubleshooting, network file sharing server configuration, connecting to a directory service, managing advanced security settings, maintenance tasks, and kernel tuning.

  • Audience
  • This course is geared toward Windows system administrators, network administrators, and other system administrators who are interested in supplementing current skills or backstopping other team members, in addition to Linux system administrators who are responsible for these tasks:

    Configuring, installing, upgrading, and maintaining Linux systems using established standards and procedures
    Providing operational support
    Managing systems for monitoring system performance and availability
    Writing and deploying scripts for task automation and system administration

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

  • Automated installation with Kickstart
  • Kickstart
  • Anaconda: An Overview
  • Anaconda: Booting the System
  • Anaconda: Common Boot Options
  • Anaconda: Loading Anaconda and Packages
  • Anaconda: Storage Options
  • Anaconda: Troubleshooting
  • LAB TASKS:
  • Linux Installation
  • Automating Installation with Kickstart
  • Use regular expressions with grep
  • Searching Inside Files
  • The Streaming Editor
  • Regular Expression Overview
  • Regular Expressions
  • RE Character Classes
  • Regex Quantifiers
  • RE Parenthesis
  • LAB TASKS:
  • Pattern Matching with Regular Expressions
  • Extended Regular Expressions
  • Using Regular Expressions With sed
  • Create and edit text files with vim
  • Text Editing
  • vi and Vim
  • Learning Vim
  • Basic vi
  • Intermediate vi
  • LAB TASKS:
  • Text Editing with Vim
  • Schedule future Linux tasks
  • Automating Tasks
  • at/batch
  • cron
  • The crontab Command
  • crontab Format
  • /etc/cron.*/ Directories
  • Anacron
  • 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
  • SELinux Commands
  • Choosing an SELinux Policy
  • SELinux Booleans
  • Permissive Domains
  • SELinux Policy Tools
  • SELinux Troubleshooting
  • SELinux Troubleshooting Continued
  • LAB TASKS: Exploring SELinux Modes
  • SELinux File Contexts
  • Connect to network-defined users and groups
  • system-config-authentication
  • 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
  • Partitioning Disks with parted
  • 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
  • Manipulating VGs & LVs
  • Advanced LVM Concepts
  • gnome-disk-utility
  • LAB TASKS: Creating and Managing LVM Volumes
  • Access networked attached storage with network file system (NFS)
  • File Sharing via NFS
  • NFSv4+
  • NFS Clients
  • NFS
  • NFS Server Configuration
  • LAB TASKS: NFS Server Configuration
  • Access networked attached storage with SMB
  • Accessing Windows/Samba Shares from Linux
  • AutoFS
  • AutoFS Configuration
  • LAB TASKS: Using autofs
  • Control and troubleshoot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot process
  • systemd System and Service Manager
  • systemd Targets
  • Using systemd
  • Legacy Support for SysV init
  • Booting Linux on PCs
  • GRUB 2
  • GRUB2 Configuration
  • GRUB2 Security
  • Boot Parameters
  • Initial RAM Filesystem
  • init
  • System Init Styles Overview
  • .
  • Linux Runlevels Aliases
  • Systemd local-fs.target and sysinit.target
  • Systemd basic.target and multi-user.target
  • Legacy local bootup script support
  • System Configuration Files
  • RHEL7 Configuration Utilities
  • Shutdown and Reboot
  • LAB TASKS: Boot Process
  • GRUB Command Line
  • Basic GRUB Security
  • Managing Services With Systemd's systemctl
  • Troubleshooting Practice: Boot Process
  • Linux network communication with firewall
  • Netfilter: Stateful Packet Filter Firewall
  • Netfilter Concepts
  • Using the iptables Command
  • Netfilter Rule Syntax
  • Targets
  • Common match_specs
  • Connection Tracking
  • FirewallD
  • LAB TASKS:
  • Securing Services with Netfilter
  • FirewallD
  • Comprehensive review
  • System Administration II