Audience
This course is designed for IT professionals who are new to Linux Administration and require core Red Hat Enterprise Linux skills to perform administration tasks in corporates and organizations.

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Course Objectives

• Introduction to the command line
• Managing physical storage
• Learning how to install and configure software components and services
• Establishing network connections and firewall access
• Monitoring and managing processes
• Managing and securing files
• Administrating users and groups
• Accessing Linux file systems
• Installing and using virtualized systems
• Reviewing the system log files and journal

• Access the command line
• Manage files from command line
• Create, view, and edit text files
• Manage local Linux users and groups
• Monitor and manage Linux processes
• Control services and daemons
• Control access to files with Linux file-system permissions
• Analyze and store log files
• Configure and secure the OpenSSH service
• Install and update software packages
• Access Linux file systems
• Manage Linux networking

Get started with the GNOME graphical desktop
·       Get started with GNOME and edit text files with gedit

Manage files graphically with Nautilus
·       Manage files graphically and access remote systems with Nautilus

Get help in a graphical environment
·       Access documentation, both locally and online

Configure local services
·       Configure the date and time, and configure a printer

Manage physical storage I
·       Understand basic disk concepts and manage system disks

Manage logical volumes
·       Understand logical volume concepts and manage logical volumes

Monitor system resources
·       Manage CPU, memory, and disk utilization

Manage system software
·       Manage system software locally and using Red Hat® Network (RHN)

Get started with bash
·       Understand basic shell concepts; execute simple commands, and use basic job control techniques

Get help in a textual environment
·       Use man and info pages and find documentation in /usr/share/doc

Establish network connectivity
·       Understand basic network concepts; configure, manage, and test network settings

Administer users and groups
·       Manage users and groups

Manage files from the command line
·       Understand Linux file system hierarchy and pathnames, manage files from the command line

Secure Linux file access
·       Understand Linux file access mechanisms, manage file access from the GUI and the command line

Administer remote systems
·       Share and connect to a desktop; use SSH and rsync

Configure general services
·       Manage services; configure SSH and remote desktops

Manage physical storage II
·       Manage file system attributes and swap space

Install Linux graphically
·       Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux and configure the system with firstboot

Manage virtual machines
·       Understand basic virtualization concepts; install and manage virtual machines

Control the boot process
·       Understand runlevels and manage GRUB

Deploy file-sharing services
·       Deploy an FTP server and a web server

Secure network services
·       Manage a firewall; understand SELinux concepts and manage SELinux