This highly practical instructor led Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 training course is designed to give the delegate practical experience in the areas of networking,security,basics of shell scripting and elementary installing of MariaDB. With a strong emphasis on practical hands-on training,this course will teach the essential network,security and shell scripting tasks required on a Red Hat Linux system.

Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.

The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:

• Review of Controlling Services and deamons
• Introduction to IPV6
• Configure Aggregated network links (teaming) and Bridging
• Set up network routing using static routes
• Configure a Secure Firewall Configuration
• Configure a DNS server
• Configure a basic email server
• Configure iSCSI
• Configure an NFS server and SMB shares
• Configure the system to use Kerberos security
• Create conditional shell scripts to automate tasks
• Install,configure and backup a MariaDB database
• Setup a Network Time Protocol Server
• Understand encryption techniques
• Configure SSH
• Configure HTTP/HTTPS servers
• Overview of Linux Containers and Docker

Administering Red Hat Linux 7 Part 3 online course provides introduction to Red Hat Linux operating system and system administration. Administering Red Hat Linux 7 Part 3 online course intention is to provide a foundation to implement network, controls and MariaDB installation.

Administering Red Hat Linux 7 Part 3 online course will allow the participants to learn the vital parts of Administering Red Hat Linux 7 Part 3.

Administering Red Hat Linux 7 Part 3 online course is ideally developed for Linux users and administrators who wants to know more about Red Hat Linux 7 and its features. 

In the Administering Red Hat Linux 7 Part 3 online training course, Uplatz provides an in-depth online training for the participants or learners to gain knowledge in Linux. Uplatz provides appropriate teaching and expertise training to equip the participants for implementing the learnt concepts in an enterprise.

Administering Red Hat Linux 7 Part 3 online training course curriculum covers IPv6, Network management, DNS, basic mail server configuration and Linux containers.

With the help of Administering Red Hat Linux 7 Part 3 online course, the learners can discover:

• Inhouse Terminology and concepts related to the Administering Red Hat Linux 7 Part 3

• Outline to IPV6

• Configure Aggregated network links (teaming) and Bridging

• Establish network routing using static routes

• Configure a Secure Firewall Configuration

• Configure a DNS server

• Configure a basic email server

• Configure iSCSI

Uplatz provides an in-depth training to the learners to accelerate their knowledge and skill set required for a Red Hat certified System Administrator

The Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 course is designed for System Administrators and Programmers and other technical IT staff who need to acquire knowledge of the key networking,security and scripting tasks required to administer a Linux system.

This course will teach many of the extra necessary skills required,over and above the Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam requirements,to enable the delegate to work towards achieving the Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification. Courses covering the topics required for RHCSA certification,which are also a requirement of RHCE certification,are covered on the Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 1 & Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 2 courses.

The course assumes administration knowledge of the Red Hat Linux operating system to the level covered in the Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 1 & Part 2 courses.

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Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 1

Course Introduction

• Administration and Course Materials
• Course Structure and Agenda
• Delegate and Trainer Introductions

Session 1: RECAP AND FURTHER DETAILS ON SYSTEMD

• Recap of systemd
• systemd Wants and Requires
• Useful systemd related utilities
• Exercise

Session 2: NETWORK MANAGEMENT AND IPV6

• Routing under Linux
• IPROUTE suite of programs
• Configuring network cards and Routing
• Configuring the system as a Gateway
• IPV6 Addressing
• Local Network Bridges
• Network tools: tcpdump,netstat,wireshark,etc
• Configure Ethernet Bonding (Link aggregation,teaming)
• Exercise

Session 3: FILE SECURITY AND INTEGRITY

• System Security
• Extended Permissions
• GPG
• Why encrypt data and verify the sender
• Key pairs and management
• Using Digital signatures
• Checking and repairing file systems
• Exercise

Session 4: SECURING NETWORKS: FIREWALLS

• Packet Filtering using firewalld
• Rich Rules and their Operation
• Source and Destination NAT Configuration
• Masquerading
• Exercise

Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 2

Session 5: DOMAIN NAME SERVER (DNS)

• The DNS/BIND system under Red Hat Linux
• Name Server Hierarchy
• Setting up DNS
• Master/Slave Zones
• Reverse lookup Zones
• Record types and their syntax
• Name Daemon Control Utility (rndc)
• Address Match Lists (acl)
• Configuring a Caching Only Name Server
• DNS in a chroot environment
• Testing a DNS server
• Exercise

Session 6: CENTRALISED AND SECURE STORAGE

• What is ISCSI
• Setting up ISCSI Target and Initiator
• Accessing Centralised Storage
• Accessing encrypted file systems
• Exercise

Session 7: CONFIGURING NETWORK TIME PROTOCOL

• Configuring Time Synchronisation
• Stratum Levels
• Choosing a time source
• Choosing an NTP Service
• Chrony Client Configuration
• Chronyc command
• Configuring a Chrony Server
• Chrony Security
• Exercise

Session 8: FURTHER SECURITY FEATURES

• su and sudo configuration
• Configuring Kerberos Server and Client
• Exercise

Session 9: SHARING FILES ACROSS THE NETWORK (NFS & SMB)

• Configure file sharing using NFS
• NFS commands
• Automounter
• Introduction to CIFS(SAMBA)
• Configure file sharing between hosts with CIFS
• Using Konqueror to access shares
• Exercise

Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 3

Session 10: BASIC MAIL SERVER CONFIGURATION

• Email Components
• Mail User,Mail Transport and Mail User Agents
• Postfix Configuration
• Configuring a null client using Postfix
• Dovecot - POP and IMAP services
• Exercise

Session 11: SSL,TSL AND WEB SERVICE CONFIGURATION

• Data Security and Encryption
• Public Key Encryption
• Configuring Virtual Hosts : Name And IP Based Access
• Displaying Apache Web Server Information and Status
• Dynamic Virtual hosts
• Configuring HTTPS
• Signed Certificates
• Apache SSL Configuration File
• HTTPS Virtual Hosts
• Exercise

Session 12: CONFIGURING A MARIADB DATABASE

• Install and configure MariaDB
• Backup and Restore a database
• Create a simple database schema
• Perform simple SQL queries on the database
• Exercise

Session 13: SHELL SCRIPTING

• What is a shell script?
• Creating and executing shell scripts
• User interaction
• Command line arguments
• Exercise

Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 Training Course

Course Contents - DAY 4

Session 14: CONDITIONAL SHELL SCRIPTING

• Decision constructs using the 'if' statement
• Case statement
• Looping constructs: for/while/until
• Automating administrative tasks
• Exercise

Session 15: OVERVIEW OF LINUX CONTAINERS

• What is a Linux Container
• What are the advantages of Containers
• What is Docker