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Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration with exam

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Course Details
Code:
RH404

Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration is a lab-based course that explores the concepts and methods necessary for successful large-scale management of Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® systems. Course participants will learn how to install Red Hat Satellite 6 on a server and populate it with software packages. This course is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Satellite server 6. It also includes the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management (EX403) exam based on Red Hat Satellite 6.

Skills Gained

  • Install Red Hat Satellite 6.
  • Red Hat Network organizations, locations, users and roles.
  • Manage software with Red Hat Satellite environments and content views.
  • Create custom RPM packages.
  • Use Red Hat Satellite to configure hosts with Puppet.
  • Provision hosts with integrated software and configuration management.
  • Implement Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) with Satellite discovery and provisioning of unprovisioned hosts.

Who Can Benefit

  • Senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators responsible for the management of multiple servers

Prerequisites

  • Recommend having a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification or equivalent experience
  • Have Red Hat Satellite 5 experience

Course Details

Red Hat Satellite 6 installation

  • Install Red Hat Satellite 6 on a server and populate it with Red Hat Enterprise Linux software content.

Manage users and hosts across organizations and locations

  • Effectively control user access for Red Hat Satellite administration.

Register clients to Satellite server

  • Register hosts to a Red Hat Satellite server, both interactively and automatically.

Manage software deployment through the software development life cycle

  • Control which packages hosts can install and which updates are propagated to hosts and evaluate host deviations from corporate standards.

Build RPM packages

  • Create RPM packages for deployment of programs and files on client systems.

Deploy custom software using Red Hat Satellite

  • Incorporate non-Red Hat software packages into a Red Hat Satellite framework.

Manage system configurations with Puppet

  • Create and populate a Puppet repository within a Red Hat Satellite framework.

Standardize system configurations with Red Hat Satellite 6

  • Configure hosts using Puppet.

Deploy hosts with Satellite server

  • Deploy and provision hosts using PXE.

Configuration of Satellite server for enterprise system deployment

  • Configure host provisioning for integration with software and configuration management and discover unprovisioned host and provision-discovered hosts.