Practiced Linux System Administrators who currently manage Linux servers at the enterprise level

Skilled Linux System Administrators who want or are required to demonstrate competencies by earning the RHCSA

Full-time Linux administration with 1-3 years of experience

The following skills :

• Using the Bash shell and managing files and directories from the command line
• Configuring print queues to local and remote printers
• Monitoring system resources at a basic level (ps, kill)
• Managing system software (installing and updating packages with yum)
• Establishing network connectivity using DHCP
• Administering local user and group accounts
• Managing local, physical storage
• Installing Linux graphically on a bare-metal system

This program will be conducted with interactive lectures, PowerPoint presentation, discussion and practical exercise.

Upon completion of this program, participants should be able to :

• Manage local storage, including encrypted volumes
• Deploy network services, including VNC, SSH, FTP and web services
• Secure files with ACLs and network services with the firewall and SELinux
• Manage virtual machines with KVM technology
• Automate installation of Linux using kickstart

• Manage user accounts including password aging; connect to a central LDAP directory service

• Launch, monitor, govern and terminate processes using the BASH command-line

• Schedule recurring tasks; monitor and manage system logs

• Install software and query with yum using RHN and a custom repository

• Access remote systems using command-line and graphical techniques

• Install and manage basic network services, including firewall configuration

• Manage SELinux booleans and filesystem contexts

• Manage encrypted partitions, filesystems and swap space

• Restrict file access with filesystem ACLs

• Understand logical volume concepts and manage logical volumes, including snapshots

• Understand runlevels and manage GRUB

• Pass parameters to the kernel and manage kernel modules

• Deploy and manage KVM virtual machines

• Create kickstart configurations and use them to install Linux

• Access Red Hat documentation and services