RH401 – Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management

Learn how to install Red Hat Satellite server and use it to deploy and manage systems

Red Hat^® Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management explores the concepts and methods necessary for successful large-scale deployment and management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux^® systems.

Course Overview

Students will learn how to install and use Red Hat Satellite server with enhanced entitlements reporting to deploy and manage systems. By the end of this course, students will have built their own RPM packages and will have used Subversion to manage changes to files. This course can also help you prepare for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management (EX401) exam. This version of the course includes the exam.

Note: This course is related to Red Hat Satellite 5. If you would like to train on version 6, see our Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration (RH403) course.

Course content summary

• Install Red Hat Satellite server with Subscription Asset Manager
• Red Hat Satellite organizations, users, and roles
• Manage changes with revision control software
• Manage software with Red Hat Satellite software channels and errata
• Construction of custom RPM packages
• Report and automation with Red Hat Satellite programming API
• Deploy configuration files using Red Hat Satellite
• Provision with Pre-boot Execution Environment (PXE)
• Administer Red Hat Satellite

Audience for this course

• Senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators responsible for the planning, deployment, and management of multiple physical or virtualized servers
• Individuals preparing for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management (EX401) exam

Prerequisites for this course

Students without a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification are encouraged to check their experience levels by taking a free online skills assessment.

Outline for this course

Essential system management

Set high-level goals for effective system management.

Install Red Hat Satellite

Install a Red Hat Satellite server, and populate it with software channel content.

Red Hat Satellite organization

Create and manage Red Hat Satellite organizations, users, and system groups.

Use Subversion to manage changes

Initialize and configure a Subversion repository, start a new Subversion project, and manage revisions using Subversion.

Red Hat Satellite client configuration

Register client machines with Red Hat Satellite both interactively and in automated ways.

Red Hat Satellite software management

Configure Red Hat Satellite with custom and cloned software channels to manage software updates on client systems.

Build RPM packages

Create RPM packages for use with Red Hat Satellite to enable the deployment of programs and files on client systems.

Configuration file management with Satellite

Use Red Hat Satellite to deploy individual configuration files to client systems.

Provision with Red Hat Satellite

Use Red Hat Satellite to provision Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems from bare metal.

Red Hat Satellite administration

Perform Red Hat Satellite maintenance functions including embedded database management, activate Satellite with a new entitlement certificate, and export custom software channel content.

Red Hat Satellite API and reports

Use the Red Hat Satellite API to produce simple reports and perform basic administrative tasks.

Red Hat Satellite virtual machine management

Manage Red Hat Satellite entitlements and create kickstart profiles that will provision virtualization hosts and virtualized guests.

Comprehensive review

Review course material and deploy a Red Hat Satellite server.

Recommended next exam or course

Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration (RH403) course

Explores the concepts and methods necessary for successful large-scale management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems using Red Hat Satellite 6.

Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management (EX401) exam

Hands-on, performance-based, 4-hour exam.

Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning (RH442) course

Gives senior administrators the methodology and experience with performance tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This course prepares you for these credentials

Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management

Demonstrate your knowledge and ability needed to manage large installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems using Red Hat Satellite.

RH318 – Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Get the skills required to deploy and manage virtual environments
Red Hat® Enterprise Virtualization (RH318) teaches experienced system administrators how to use the virtualization features of Red Hat Enterprise Linux® managed through the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization suite.

Course overview

Students acquire the skills and knowledge to effectively create, deploy, manage, and migrate Linux virtual machines hosted on either dedicated Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor nodes or Red Hat Enterprise Linux servers using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. With hands-on labs and a deep dive into the technology, this training course is the perfect first step for enterprise planning or executing a virtualization deployment strategy.

This course also helps candidates prepare for the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Administrator exam (EX318), which, if passed, earns them the Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA) certification.

Read the entire course outline for more details.

Course content summary

• Deploy Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization platform
• Configure Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment (datacenters, clusters, and storage domains)
• Install, manage, and troubleshoot virtual machines (servers and desktops)
• Create virtual machine snapshots and explore high-availability options
• Use templates for rapid virtual machine deployment
• Secure Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment with multilevel administrative roles
• Monitor and create custom reports

Audience

• Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for managing enterprise servers who are interested in learning how to manage large numbers of servers or virtual machines using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
• IT professionals interested in earning a Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator (RHCVA)certification

Prerequisites for this course

IT professionals who have earned an Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) certification or maintain the equivalent experience with Linux.

Outline for this course

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization overview

Understand general virtualization, KVM concepts, and Red Hat^® Enterprise Virtualization platform.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager

Install, test, remove, and troubleshoot Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor

Install, configure, upgrade, and troubleshoot Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Hypervisor.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization environment configuration

Create and configure datacenters, clusters, storage domains, and logical networks.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Servers

Install, perform basic management of, and troubleshoot virtual servers and images.

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization for Desktops

Install virtual desktops and configure paravirtualized drivers.

Virtual machine templates

Create Red Hat Enterprise Linux^® virtual machines with template images.

Pools and users

Use pools and deploy the user portal with multilevel administrative roles.

Monitoring and reports

Monitor Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and create custom reports.

Advanced Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Back up and restore Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization; CLI and API interfaces.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts

Manage virtual machines with Red Hat Network.

Migration and high availability

Migrate a virtual machine and explore high availability

Comprehensive review

Apply the performance objectives learned throughout the course

Note: Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves.

Recommended next exam or course

RHCVA exam (EX318)

Hands-on, performance-based, 3-hour exam.

Red Hat Certified Virtualization Administrator — RHCVA

Earn an RHCVA certification by proving your ability to deploy and manage virtual hosts in production environments using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.

RH413 – Red Hat Server Hardening

Secure a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system to comply with security policy requirements

Red Hat^® Server Hardening (RH413) builds on a student’s Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE^®) certification or equivalent experience to provide an understanding of how to secure a Red Hat Enterprise Linux^® system to comply with security policy requirements.

Course overview

Many security policies and standards require systems administrators to address specific user authentication concerns, application of updates, system auditing and logging, file system integrity, and more. Red Hat Server Hardening provides strategies for addressing specific policy and configuration concerns. This course can also help you prepare for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Server Hardening exam (EX413).

Course content summary

• Review errata and apply them to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Use special permissions and file system access control lists
• Manage users and password-aging policy requirements
• Install and configure Red Hat Identity Management tools
• Understand system auditing

Audience and prerequisites

• Needs technical guidance on how to enhance the security of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems
• Responsible for implementing security policy requirements on Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems consistently and in a reproducible, scalable way
• Must be able to demonstrate that systems meet security policy requirements
• Maintains continued adherence to security requirements, including management of security-critical operating system/software updates
• RHCE-level skills highly recommended

Prerequisites for this course

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification, Red Hat Certified Systems Administrator (RHCSA) certification, or equivalent experience required
• For candidates who have not earned their RHCSA or RHCE certifications, confirmation of the required knowledge can be obtained by passing the online skills assessment

RH442 – RH Enterprise Performance Tuning

Performance tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Red Hat^® Enterprise Performance Tuning teaches senior Linux^® system administrators about performance tuning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

WAYS TO TRAIN/TEST

Red Hat offers a method of training that is convenient to you – classroom, online, or at your site.

Course Overview

This course discusses system architecture with emphasis on:

• Understanding the implications on system performance
• Methods for testing the effects of performance adjustments
• Open source benchmarking utilities
• Methods for analyzing system and networking performance
• Tuning configurations for specific application loads

This course can also help you prepare for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Performance Tuning exam (EX442).

Course content summary

• Tuning for use-case scenarios (for example, HPC, large memory, database, and file server)
• Applying tuning profiles with tuned
• Tuning virtual machines (primarily guest, but host is discussed)
• Tuning memory and caches
• Tuning CPU and memory utilization using cgroups (integrated in systemd)
• Gathering performance metrics and other data for tuning purposes

Audience and prerequisites

Audience for this course

• Senior Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resource utilization through performance tuning

Prerequisites for this course

• Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE^®) certification or equivalent experience
• Candidates who have not earned their RHCE can confirm they have the correct skills by passing ouronline skills assessment

Outline for this course

Introduction to performance tuning

Understand the basic principles of performance tuning and analysis.

Collecting, graphing, and interpreting data

Gain proficiency using basic analysis tools and evaluating data.

General tuning

Learn basic tuning theory and mechanisms used to tune the system.

Limiting resource usage

Hardware profiling

Understand and analyze hardware.

Software profiling

Analyze CPU and memory performance of applications.

Small file tuning

Tune a server for a workload involving frequent reads and writes of small files.

Large memory workload tuning

Understand memory management and tuning.

Tuning for a CPU-intensive workload

Understand tuning for CPU-bound applications

File server tuning

Understand storage and network tuning in the context of a file server application.

Database server tuning

Tune memory and network performance using a database application as an example.

Power usage tuning

Tune systems with power consumption in mind.

Virtualization tuning

Tune ‘host’ and ‘guest’ for efficient virtualization.

Recommended next exam or course

Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Performance Tuning exam (EX442)Tests candidates’ ability to use standard system tools to analyze the performance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and applications running on it and to modify the behavior of the system and applications to improve system performance.

This course prepares you for these credentials

Red Hat Certified Architect — RHCA^®RHCA certification represents a depth of knowledge in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and breadth of knowledge across other Red Hat technologies.

Certificates of ExpertiseCertificates of Expertise are incremental credentials attached to an RHCE certification that demonstrate skills and knowledge in specialized areas.

RH436 – Red Hat Enterprise Clustering & Storage Management

Manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments

The intensive, hands-on Red Hat^® Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management course teaches storage management, the Red Hat High Availability Add-On, and the shared storage technology delivered by Red Hat Global File System 2 (GFS2) and Red Hat Storage Server.

WAYS TO TRAIN/TEST

Red Hat offers a method of training that is convenient to you – classroom, online, or at your site.

Course Overview

Created for senior Linux^® system administrators, this four-day course strongly emphasizes lab-based activities. You’ll learn how to deploy and manage shared storage and server clusters that provide highly available network services to a mission-critical enterprise environment.

This course also helps you prepare for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Clustering and Storage Management exam (EX436).

Content summary

• Install and configure the Red Hat High Availability Add-On
• Create and manage highly available services
• Work with shared storage (iSCSI) and configure multipathing
• Configure GFS2 file systems
• Configure XFS^® file systems
• Work with the Red Hat Storage Server

Audience and prerequisites

Audience for this course

• Senior Linux system administrators responsible for maximizing resiliency though high-availability clustering services and using fault-tolerant shared storage technologies

Prerequisites for this course

• If you want to take this course without the exam (RH436) and have not earned your RHCE certification, you can confirm whether you have the correct skill-set knowledge by passing the online skills assessment.

Outline for this course

Clusters and storage

Get an overview of storage and cluster technologies.

ISCSI configuration

Set up and manage iSCSI.

UDEV

Learn basic manipulation and creation of udev rules.

Multipathing

Combine multiple paths to SAN devices into one fault-tolerant virtual device.

Red Hat high-availability overview

Learn the architecture and component technologies in the Red Hat^® High Availability Add-On.

Quorum

Understand quorum and quorum calculations.

Fencing

Understand fencing and fencing configuration.

Resources and resource groups

Understand rgmanager and the configuration of resources and resource groups.

Advanced resource management

Understand resource dependencies and complex resources.

Two-node cluster issues

Understand the use and limitations of two-node clusters.

LVM management

Review LVM commands and Clustered LVM (CLVM).

Global File System 2

Understand the GFS2 file system and use tools to create, maintain, and troubleshoot it.

XFS

Explore the features of the XFS^® file system and tools required for creating, maintaining, and troubleshooting.

Red Hat Storage

Work with Gluster to create and maintain a scale-out storage solution.

Comprehensive review

Set up high-availability services and storage.

Note:

Course outline is subject to change with technology advances and as the nature of the underlying job evolves. For questions or confirmation on a specific objective or topic, please contact a training specialist.

Recommended next exam or course

Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Clustering and Storage Management Exam (EX436)

Hands-on, performance-based, 4-hour exam.Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management (RH401)Equips senior administrators for large-scale deployment and management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, including Red Hat Network Satellite server.

Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning (RH442)Gives senior administrators the methodology and experience with performance tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.