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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Admin I

Course Overview:
This Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Admin I course is designed
to follow an identical set of topics as the Red Hat® RH124 course
with the added benefit of very comprehensive lab exercises and
detailed lecture material. Duration:
Classroom: 5 days
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) system administration topics Virtual: 5 days
covered in this course along with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Sys-
tems Admin II course cover the certification objects of the Red Hat Recommended for:
Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam.
Prerequisites:
Students must be proficient in
Course Objectives:
general computing skills but not
The topics covered include essential command line tools, installing
necessarily experienced with Linux
RHEL, remote administration techniques, managing local storage,
or Unix.
system monitoring, basic user and security, administration, connect-
ing to a network and deploying FTP and Web servers.
Career Certifications:
Red Hat Certified System Admin-
istrator (RHCSA)

Related Courses:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems
Admin II

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Admin I
Course Outline:
Module 1: ACCESS THE COMMAND LINE
• Components of a Distribution
• Red Hat Linux Products
• Logging In
• Running Programs
• Interacting with Command Line
• Desktop Environments
• GNOME
• got root?
• Switching User Contexts
• sudo
Module 2: MANAGE FILES FROM THE COMMAND
LINE
• Managing Files Graphically
• Drag and drop with Nautilus
• Physical Unix File Structure
• Unix/Linux Filesystem Features
• Navigating the Filesystem
• Displaying Directory Contents
• Directory Manipulation
• File Manipulation
• Deleting and Creating Files
• Filesystem Links
Module 3: GET HELP IN A TEXTUAL ENVIRONMENT
• Gathering Login Session Info
• Red Hat Online Documentation
• Getting Help Within the Graphical Desktop
• Gathering System Info
• Help from Commands and Documentation
• Getting Help with man & info
Module 4: CREATE, VIEW, AND EDIT TEXT FILES
• The gedit Text Editor
• Pico/GNU Nano
• Pico/Nano Interface
• Nano configuration
• Pico/Nano Shortcuts
• Communication Channels
• File Redirection
• Piping Commands Together
• The Streaming Editor
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• Text Processing with Awk
• Producing File Statistics
• Replacing Text Characters
• Text Sorting
• Duplicate Removal Utility
• Extracting Columns of Text
• Combining Files and Merging Text
• Comparing File Changes
Module 5: MANAGE LOCAL LINUX USERS AND
GROUPS
• User and Group Concepts
• User Administration
• Modifying Accounts
• Group Administration
• User Private Group Scheme
• Password Aging
Module 6: CONTROL ACCESS TO FILES WITH LINUX
FILE SYSTEM PERMISSIONS
• File Ownership
• File and Directory Permissions
• SUID and SGID on files
• SGID and Sticky Bit on Directories
• Changing File Permissions
Module 7: MONITOR AND MANAGE LINUX PRO-
CESSES
• What is a Process?
• Process States
• Viewing Processes
• System Status CPU
• System Status Memory
• Signals
• Tools to Send Signals
• Managing Processes
• Tuning Process Scheduling
Module 8: CONTROL SERVICES AND DAEMONS
• init
• Linux Runlevels Aliases
• systemd System and Service Manager
• systemd Targets
• Using systemd
• Legacy Support for SysV init
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Module 9: CONFIGURE AND SECURE OPENSSH • The PKZIP Archiving/Compression format

SERVICE
• Secure Shell Module 13: INSTALL AND UPDATE SOFTWARE PACKAGES
• ssh and sshd Configuration • Managing Software
• Accessing Remote Shells • RPM Features
• Transferring Files • RPM Architecture
• Alternative sftp Clients • RPM Package Files
• SSH Key Management • Working With RPMs
• ssh-agent • Querying and Verifying with RPM
• Managing Software Dependencies
Module 10: ANALYZING AND STORING LOGS • Using the Yum command
• System Logging • YUM package groups
• systemd Journal • Updating the Kernel RPM
• systemd Journal’s journactl • Dealing With RPM & Yum Digest Changes
• Secure Logging with Journal’s Log Sealing • YUM Repositories
• gnome-system-log • YUM Repository Groups
• Syslog-ng • Yum Plugins & RHN Subscription Manager
• Rsyslog
• /etc/rsyslog.conf Module 14: ACCESS LINUX FILE SYSTEMS
• Log Management • Filesystem Creation
• Log Anomaly Detector • Mounting Filesystems
• Mounting Filesystems
Module 11: MANAGE RED HAT ENTERPRISE LINUX • Filesystem Maintenance
NETWORKING • Managing an XFS Filesystem
• IPv4 Fundamentals • Persistent Block Devices
• TCP/UDP Fundamentals • Filesystem Structures
• Linux Network Interfaces • Determining Disk Usage With df and du
• Ethernet Hardware Tools • Filesystem Table (/etc/fstab)
• Network Configuration with ip Command
• Starting and Stopping Interfaces Module 15: MANAGE VIRTUAL MACHINES
• Configuring Routing Tables • Introducing libvirt
• IP to MAC Address Mapping with ARP • libvirt: Basic Concepts
• DNS Clients • libvirt: Storage Architecture
• DHCP Clients • libvirt: Network Architecture
• Continual Time Sync with NTP • libvirt: Graphical Tools
• Network Diagnostics • libvirt: Command Line Tools
• NetworkManager • virsh: Basics
• virsh: Common Tasks
Module 12: ARCHIVE AND COPY FILES BETWEEN • virt-install
SYSTEMS • Virtual Machine Guest Tools & Drivers
• Archives with tar • libguestfs and guestfish
• Archives with cpio
• The gzip Compression Utility Module 16: COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW
• The bzip2 Compression Utility • System Administration I
• The XZ Compression Utility

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Labs: • Troubleshooting Practice: Networking

Module 1 LAB TASKS Module 12 LAB TASKS

• Login and Discovery • Archiving and Compression
• Switching Users With su • Using rsync and ssh for Backups

Module 2 LAB TASKS Module 13 LAB TASKS

• Navigating Directories and Listing Files • Managing Software with RPM
• Manipulating Files and Directories • Querying the RPM Database
• Using Yum
Module 3 LAB TASKS
Help with Commands Module 14 LAB TASKS
• Creating and Managing Filesystems
Module 4 LAB TASKS
• Text Editing with Nano Module 15 LAB TASKS
• Text Processing • Installing a Virtual Machine

Module 5 LAB TASKS Module 16 LAB TASKS

• User and Group Administration
• User Private Groups
Module 6 LAB TASKS
• File and Directory Ownership and Permissions
• Understand And Use Essential Tools
• Operate Running Systems
• Users, Groups, and File Permissions

Module 7 LAB TASKS

Process Management Basics
•
Module 8 LAB TASKS
• Managing Services With Systemd’s systemctl
• Creating a systemd unit file

Module 9 LAB TASKS

• Introduction to ssh and scp
• SSH Key-based User Authentication
• Using ssh-agent

Module 10 LAB TASKS

• Using the systemd Journal
• Setting up a Full Debug Logfile
• Remote Syslog Configuration

Module 11 LAB TASKS

• Network Discovery
• Basic Client Networking
• Introduction to Troubleshooting Labs

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