Course Outline

Unit 1 - Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• Create and manage kickstart configuration files; perform installations using kickstart

Unit 2 - Accessing the Command Line

• Access the command line locally and remotely; gain administration privileges from the command line

Unit 3 - Intermediate Command Line Tools

• Use hardlinks; use archives and compression; use vim

Unit 4 - Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection

• Use regular expressions to search patterns in files and output; redirect and pipe output

Unit 5 - Network Configuration and Troubleshooting

• Configure network settings; troubleshoot network issues

Unit 6 - Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems

• Create and format simple partitions, swap partitions and encrypted partitions

Unit 7 - Managing Flexible Storage with Logical Volumes

• Implement LVM and LVM snapshots

Unit 8 - Access Network File Sharing Services

• NFS, CIFS and autofs

Unit 9 - Managing User Accounts

• Manage user accounts including password aging; connect to a central LDAP directory service

Unit 10 - Controlling Access to Files

• Manage group memberships, file permissions, and access control lists (ACL)

Unit 11 - Managing SELinux

• Activate and deactivate SELinux; set file contexts; manage SELinux booleans; analyze SELinux logs

Unit 12 - Installing and Managing Software

• Manage software and query information with yum, configure client-side yum repository files

Unit 13 - Managing Installed Services

• Managing services, verify connectivity to a service

Unit 14 - Analyzing and Storing Logs

• Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate

Unit 15 - Managing Processes

• Identify and terminal processes, change the priority of a process, use cron and at to schedule processes

Unit 16 - Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel

• List, load, and remove modules; use kernel arguments

Unit 17 - Troubleshooting

• Understand the boot process, resolve boot problems