RH134: Red Hat System Administration II

• Skills gained • Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux using scalable methods
• Understand and use essential tools
• Create simple shell scripts
• Operate running systems
• Configure local storage
• Create and configure file systems
• Deploy, configure, and maintain systems
• Manage basic networking
• Manage users and groups
• Execute shell scripting and automation techniques
• Access security files, file systems, and networks
• Manage storage devices, logical volumes, and file systems
• Manage security
• Manage security and system access
• Control the boot process and system services
• Manage containers
• Running containers

This course is likely to add to the employment-related skills of the participants. The skills developed are likely to be used in the course of being an employee or working in a business.

Candidates with an interest in supplementing the following skills:

• 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

• Course Outline Improve command line productivity
• Run commands more efficiently by using advanced features of the Bash shell, shell scripts, and various utilities provided by Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Schedule future tasks
• Schedule commands to run in the future, either one time or on a repeating schedule.
• Tune system performance
• Improve system performance by setting tuning parameters and adjusting the scheduling priority of processes
• Control access to files with ACLs
• Interpret and set access control lists (ACLs) on files to handle situations requiring complex user and group access permissions
• Manage SELinux security
• Protect and manage the security of a server by using SELinux
• Manage basic storage
• Create and manage storage devices, partitions, file systems, and swap spaces from the command line
• Manage logical volumes
• Create and manage logical volumes containing file systems and swap spaces from the command line
• Implement advanced storage features
• Manage storage using the Stratis local storage management system and use VDO volumes to optimize storage space in use
• Access network-attached storage
• Use the NFS protocol to administer network-attached storage
• Control the boot process
• Manage the boot process to control services offered and to troubleshoot and repair problems
• Manage network security
• Control network connections to services using the system firewall and SELinux rules.
• Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux on servers and virtual machines
• Run Containers
• Obtain, run, and manage simple, lightweight services as containers on a single Red Hat Enterprise Linux server