Unit 1: Essential system management
- Goals of enterprise system management
- Standardization,centralization and scalability
- Provisioning and automation
Unit 2: Installing Red Hat Network Satelite server
- Introducation to Red Hat@ Network Satelite:features,prerequisites
- Installing satelite server softwar
- Understaning software channels and entitilements
- Importing channel content a satelite server
- Xinetd and service limits
Unit 3: Red Hat Network organization
- organization managemen and trust relationships
- Managing user accounts
- Assigning user roles (security)
- Managing system groups
Unit 4: Managing changes with revision control
- Introducing revision control concepts.
- Basic Subversion repository administration
- Using Subversion to manage revisions
Unit 5: Red Hat Network client configuration
- Secure communication with SSL
- Red Hat Network registration
- Creating and using activation keys
- Registration automation with bootstrap.sh
- Troubleshooting RHN registration
Unit 6: Red Hat Netork software management
- Software channel relantioships
- Cloning existing software channels
- Managing custom software channels
- Notifying clients of changes: managing errta
Unit 7: Building RPMs
- Building open source software
- Using RPM macros
- Writing custom spec files
- Using rpmbuild to create RPMs
- signing packages for security
Unit 8: RHN application programmeer interface
- Uses for Red Hat Network API
- Basic RHN API program structure
- Sample programs
Unit 9:Configuration file management with Red Hat Network
- Managing configuration channels
- Configuration file macros
- Configuration file managment using command-line tools
Unit 10: Provisioning with kickstart
- Anaconda kickstart options
- Builiding provisioning environments
- Using Cobbler for provisioning
Unit 11: Virtual machine management
- Virtual host/platforms entitlements
- Controling Xn guests using RHN
- Red Hat Network management of xen virtual machines
Unit 12: RHN Satelite server administration
- High avaliablity options
- Embedded database management
- Certificate management
- Changing from disconnected to connected operation
- Inter-satelite Synchronization(ISS)
- Exporting software channels
- Troubleshooting
Unit 13: Red Hat Network Proxy Server
- RHN Proxy Server installation
- Configuring a client to use an RHN proxy server
- Managing software with RHN package manager
- Monitoring network traffic andopen ports
- Detecting modified files
- Investigating and verifying detected intrusions
- Recovering from, reporting, and documenting intrusions
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