Red Hat System Administration II with RHCSA Exam (RH135)

Building on the foundation of command line skills covered in System Administration I, students will dive deeper into Red Hat Enterprise Linux to broaden their "tool kits" of administration skills.

Lesson 1: Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux

• Create and manage kickstart configuration files; perform installations using kickstart

Lesson 2: Accessing the Command Line

• Access the command line locally and remotely; gain administration privileges from the command line

Lesson 3: Intermediate Command Line Tools

• Use hardlinks; use archives and compression; use vim

Lesson 4: Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection

• Use regular expressions to search patterns in files and output; redirect and pipe output

Lesson 5: Network Configuration and Troubleshooting

• Configure network settings; troubleshoot network issues

Lesson 6: Managing Simple Partitions and Filesystems

• Create and format simple partitions, swap partitions and encrypted partitions

Lesson 7: Managing Flexible Storage with Logical Volumes

• Implement LVM and LVM snapshots

Lesson 8: Access Network File Sharing Services

• NFS, CIFS and autofs

Lesson 9: Managing User Accounts

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

Lesson 10: Controlling Access to Files

• Manage group memberships, file permissions, and access control lists (ACL)

Lesson 11: Managing SELinux

• Activate and deactivate SELinux; set file contexts; manage SELinux booleans; analyze SELinux logs

Lesson 12: Installing and Managing Software

• Manage software and query information with yum, configure client-side yum repository files

Lesson 13: Managing Installed Services

• Managing services, verify connectivity to a service

Lesson 14: Analyzing and Storing Logs

• Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate

Lesson 15: Managing Processes

• Identify and terminal processes, change the priority of a process, use cron and at to schedule processes

Lesson 16: Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel

• List, load, and remove modules; use kernel arguments

Lesson 17: Troubleshooting

• Understand the boot process, resolve boot problems

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