Course: Advanced Linux Administration

Audience: Experienced Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators seeking validation of their skills.
Students who have attended Red Hat System Administration I and II and are on the path to earn RHCSA
certification.

Course outline:
 Securing Network with Firewall (Iptables & SELinux)
 Handling SAN Storage on Linux Based Server
 Troubleshooting with Linux Server
 Advanced Storage Management Tools

Pre-requisites:
Have either taken the Red Hat System Administration I (RH124) and II (RH134) courses or else the RHCSA
Rapid Track Course (RH199) or have comparable work experience as a system administrator on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux

Course Content:
Module 1: Logical Volume Management
What is LVM?
Conversion of Partition into Physical Volume
Creating volume groups and logical volumes
Mounting the logical volume filesystems
Extend and reduce the logical volumes.
Data storage using LVM
Renaming volume groups and logical volumes
Removing physical volume, volume group and logical volume

Module 2: Proxy Server (Squid)

Basics of proxy services
Configuring proxy services
Creating ACLs for controlling access to internet

Module 3: Security with SElinux and Firewall d

Introduction of Firewalld chains and tables
Configuration of Firewalld rules
Activating the Firewalld rules
Configuring Firewalld for servers
Explanation of SElinux Policies
Configuring SElinux Permanent/SElinux for servers

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Module 4: Access Network File Sharing Services
Introduction to NFS: Network File System
Configuration of NFS Server and Client
Mounting the NFS on Remote Machines
Introduction to CIFS (SAMBA) Common Internet File system
Configuration of SAMBA Server
Accessing the Samba Sever with SMBclient
Mounting the Samba Server on remote client
AUTOFS (Automatic Mounting Daemon)
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
Configuration of FTP Sever

Module 5: Remote Installation

Configuration of PXE

Module 6: NIC Teaming

Configuring Teaming
NIC Failover
Maintain load balancing

Module 7: Log Server

Configuring Analysis and logs
Configuring Rsyslog & Saving Syslog Messages
Sending Syslog Message over the network
Configuring Rsyslog clients & Users log files

Module 8: Troubleshooting your system

Recovering the super user password
Recovering the boot loader (GRUB)
Troubleshooting Xserver problems
Troubleshooting network related problems

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