PCA 629 - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Systems Administrator II - HYB

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

This course is designed to teach Linux users the skills needed to become a RHEL systems administrator, including how to attach and configure a workstation on an existing network, as well as how to setup and configure Red Hat Linux Enterprise servers. Topics to be covered include accessing a shell prompt and issuing commands with correct syntax; locating, reading, and using system documentation; managing booting/rebooting procedures, interpreting system log files, virtual processes, checking network service status; configuring local storage and creating and configuring file systems; deploying, configuring, and maintaining systems; and managing users and groups and system security.

Course Objectives:

1. create and manage Access Control Lists (ACLs);

2. demonstrate the ability to diagnose and correct file permission problems;

3. demonstrate the ability to configure networking and hostname resolution statically or dynamically;

4. demonstrate the ability to configure a system to run a default configuration HTTP server;

5. demonstrate the ability to configure systems to boot into a specific run level automatically;

6. create, delete, and modify local user accounts;

7. demonstrate the ability to configure a system to use an existing LDAP directory service for user and group information;

8. demonstrate the ability to diagnose and address routine SELinux policy violations;

9. list and identify SELinux file and process context; and

10. demonstrate the ability to configure firewall settings using system-config-firewall or iptables.