PCA 626 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Administrator III

5 Continuing Education Units (CEU). This course is not for Credit(s).

This course is designed to enable the student, who is a user of Linux who want to build skills in Systems Engineering on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, to learn how to setup and configure Red Hat Linux Enterprise servers. Topics to be covered include how to install, configure, troubleshoot, and attach a new Red Hat Enterprise Linux server to an existing production network; and system configuration and management, network services, HTTP/HTTPS, DNS, FTP, NFS, SMB, SMTP, SSH, and NTP.

Course Objectives:

1. use iptables to implement packet filtering and configure network address translation (NAT);

2. demonstrate the ability to configure a system to authenticate using Kerberos;

3. produce and deliver reports on system utilization (processor, memory, disk, and network);

4. demonstrate the ability to configure a system to log to a remote system;

5. demonstrate the ability to install packages needed to provide the service;

6. demonstrate the ability to configure SELinux to support the service;

7. demonstrate the ability to configure host-based and user-based security for the service;

8. demonstrate the ability to configure a virtual host;

9. demonstrate the ability to configure group-managed content;

10. demonstrate the ability to deploy a basic CGI application;

11. demonstrate the ability to configure private directories;

12. demonstrate the ability to configure a caching-only name server to forward DNS queries;

13. demonstrate the ability to configure anonymous-only download on an FTP site;

14. provide NFS network shares to specific clients;

15. provide NFS network shares suitable for group collaboration;

16. provide SMB network shares to specific clients and groups;

17. demonstrate the ability to configure a mail transfer agent (MTA) to accept inbound email from other systems;

18. demonstrate the ability to configure an MTA to forward (relay) email through a smart host;

19. demonstrate the ability to configure key-based authentication for SSH services; and

20. demonstrate the ability to synchronize time using other NTP peers and servers.