Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 System Administration Part 2

Audience

This course is for UNIX system administrators who have attended our Enterprise Linux System Administration Part 1 course and require the advanced techniques and skills needed to integrate RHEL6, Fedora, Scientific LINUX or CentOS 6 systems into their networks.

Prerequisites

The course assumes delegates have attended the Part 1 course and have, therefore, already gained a good understanding of installing and using Enterprise Linux (RHEL6).

Duration

5 days. Hands on.

Course Objectives

This Enterprise Linux System Administration Part 2 course allows delegates to create multiple networks; set-up a Network File System server and clients; LDAP and DNS clients. Delegates will also be introduced to Samba to enable Windows based systems access to Linux services; and Apache for web server applications. On completion of the course delegates will understand:

• Installing Enterprise Linux using KickStart.
• Managing the Linux kernel and modules.
• Advanced disk partitioning.
• Introduction to Linux RAID.
• Introduction to Logical Volume Management.
• Setting up Name Service DNS & LDAP.
• Using Apache to provide web services.
• Operational recovery & security.
• Advanced network configuration.
• Sharing files with NFS and Samba.
• Monitor and maintain log files.
• Managing processes and installed services.
• Creating and managing virtual machines.

Course Content

Kernel Services & Configuration
• Kernel Basics
• Kernel Versions
• Managing kernel modules
• Specifying kernel parameters within GRUB

Software RAID & Logical Volume Management
• RAID levels
• Logical Volume management

Apache
• The Apache web server
• The httpd.conf file
• Apache Access Configuration
• Virtual hosts

Network File System
• NFS server configuration & operation
• The /ec/exports file
• NFS configuration tool
• NFS performance
• NFS client configuration

File Transfer Protocol
• Configuring the vsFTPd process
• vsFTP security

Samba Services
• Samba background
• Configuring Samba client
• Configuring Samba Server
• Configuring Samba users
• The Samba configuration utility

Other network services
• Extended Internet Services Daemon (xinetd)
• Secure Shell Package
• Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
• Network Time Protocol

Troubleshooting
• Booting different run levels
• Network problems
• Hostname resolution problems
• Partitions, filesystems & swap
• Boot loader problems

Creating and managing virtual machines
• The KVM hypervisor
• Creating and managing guest environments