Red Hat System Administration II

Outline for this course

• Automate installation with Kickstart
• Automate the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems with Kickstart.
• Use regular expressions with grep
• Write regular expressions that, when partnered with grep, will allow you to quickly isolate or locate content within text files.
• Create and Edit text files with vim
• Introduce the vim text editor, with which you can open, edit, and save text files.
• Schedule future Linux tasks
• Schedule tasks to automatically execute in the future.
• Manage priority of Linux processes
• Influence the relative priorities at which Linux processes run.
• Control access to files with access control lists (ACL)
• Manage file security using POSIX access control lists.
• Manage SELinux security
• Manage the Security Enhanced Linux (SELinux) behavior of a system to keep it secure in case of a network service compromise.
• Connect to network-defined users and groups
• Configure systems to use central identity management services.
• Add disks, partitions, and file systems to a Linux system
• Manage simple partitions and file systems.
• Manage logical volume management (LVM) storage
• Manage logical volumes from the command line.
• Access networked attached storage with network file system (NFS)
• Access (secure) NFS shares.
• Access networked storage with SMB
• Use autofs and the command line to mount and unmount SMB file systems.
• Control and troubleshoot the Red Hat Enterprise Linux boot process
• Limit network communication with firewall
• Configure a basic firewall.
• Comprehensive review
• Practice and demonstrate knowledge and skills learned in this course.