Redhat System Administration II training course

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

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

RHEL DS Client Configuration
System Security Services Daemon (SSSD)
LAB TASKS
Using LDAP for Centralized User Accounts
ADD DISKS, PARTITIONS AND FILE SYSTEMS
Partitioning Disks with fdisk & gdisk
Resizing a GPT Partition with gdisk
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 (LVM) STORAGE

Logical Volume Management
Implementing LVM
Creating Logical Volumes
Activating LVM VGs
Exporting and Importing a VG
Examining LVM Components
Changing LVM Components
Advanced LVM Overview
Advanced LVM: Components & Object Tags
Advanced LVM: Automated Storage Tiering
Advanced LVM: Thin Provisioning
Advanced LVM: Striping & Mirroring
Advanced LVM: RAID Volumes
gnome-disk-utility
LAB TASKS
Creating and Managing LVM Volumes

ACCESS STORAGE WITH NETWORK FILE SYSTEM (NFS)

File Sharing via NFS
NFSv4+
NFS Clients
NFS
NFS Server Configuration
LAB TASKS
NFS Server Configuration
ACCESS NETWORKED STORAGE WITH SAMBA (SMB)
Accessing Windows/Samba Shares from Linux
AutoFS
AutoFS Configuration
LAB TASKS
Using autofs

CONTROL AND TROUBLESHOOT THE BOOT PROCESS

System Boot Method Overview
systemd System and Service Manager
systemd Targets
Using systemd
Legacy Support for SysV init
Booting Linux on PCs
GRUB 2
GRUB 2 Configuration
GRUB 2 Security
Boot Parameters
Initial RAM Filesystem
init
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
Booting directly to a bash shell
GRUB Command Line
Basic GRUB Security
Managing Services With Systemd's systemctl
Creating a systemd unit file
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

HANDOUTS
Command Sheet by Description, Command Sheet by Command, vi Prompt