IBM Redhat

Power Systems device operations and boot management

• Exercise 1 - Manage POWER8 devices and boot operations

Linux System Administration – I

• Course Duration: 26 Hours.
• Unit 1: Get Started with the GNOME Graphical Desktop
  Objective: Get started with GNOME and edit text files with gedit
• Unit 2: Manage Files Graphically with Nautilus
  Objective: Manage files graphically and access remote systems with Nautilus
• Unit 3: Get Help in a Graphical Environment
  Objective: Access documentation, both locally and online
• Unit 4: Configure Local Services
  Objective: Configure the date and time and configure a printer
• Unit 5: Manage Physical Storage I
  Objective: Understand basic disk concepts and manage system disks
• Unit 6: Manage Logical Volumes
  Objective: Understand logical volume concepts and manage logical volumes
• Unit 7: Monitor System Resources
  Objective: Manage CPU, Memory, and disk utilization.
• Unit 8: Manage System Software
  Objective: Manage system software locally and Red Hat Network (RHN)
• Unit 9: Get Started with Bash
  Objective: Understand basic shell concepts, execute simple commands, and use basic job control techniques
• Unit 10: Get Help in a Textual Environment
  Objective: Use man and info pages and find documentation in /usr/share/doc
• Unit 11: Establish Network Connectivity
  Objective: Understand basic network concepts; configure, manage, and test network settings
• Unit 12: Administer Users and Groups
  Objective: Get started with GNOME and edit text files with gedit
• Unit 13: Manage Files from the Command Line
  Objective: Understand Linux file system hierarchy and path names; manage files from the command line
• Unit 14: Secure Linux File Access
  Objective: Understand Linux file access mechanisms; manage file access from the GUI and the command
• Unit 15: Administer Remote Systems
  Objective: Share and connect to a desktop; use SSH and rsync
• Unit 16: Configure General Services
  Objective: Manage services; configure SSH and remote desktops
• Unit 17: Manage Physical Storage II
  Objective: Manage file system attributes and swap space
• Unit 18: Install Linux Graphically
  Objective: Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux and configure the system with firstboot
• Unit19: Manage Virtual Machines
  Objective: Understand basic virtualization concepts; install and manage virtual machines.
• Unit 20: Control the Boot Process
  Objective: Understand run levels and manage GRUB
• Unit 21: Deploy File sharing Services
  Objective: Deploy an FTP server and a web server
• Unit 22: Secure Network Services
  Objective: Manage a firewall; understand SELinux concepts and manage SELinux
• Unit 23: Comprehensive Review
  Objective: Get a hands-on review of the concepts covered in this course.

Linux System Administration – II

• Course Duration : 22 Hours.
• Unit 1: Automated Installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  Objectives: Create and manage kickstart configuration files; perform installations using kickstart.
• Unit 2: Accessing the Command Line
  Objectives: Access the command line locally and remotely; gain administrative privileges from the command line.
• Unit 3: Intermediate Command Line Tools.
  Objectives: Use hard links, archives and compression, and vim.
• Unit 4: Regular Expressions, Pipelines, and I/O Redirection
  Objectives: Use regular expressions to search patterns in files and output; redirect and pipe output.
• Unit 5: Network Configuration and Troubleshooting
  Objectives: Configure network settings; troubleshoot network issue.
• Unit 6: Managing Simple Partitions and File systems
  Objectives: Create and format simple partitions, swap , and encrypted partitions.
• Unit 7: Managing Flexible Storage with the Logical Volume Manager (LVM)
  Objectives: Implement LVM and LVM snapshots.
• Unit 8: Access Network File Sharing Services; NFS and CIFS
  Objectives: Implement NFS, CIFS, and autofs.
• Unit 9: Managing User Accounts
  Objectives: Manage user accounts including password aging.
• Unit 10: Network User Accounts with LDAP
  Objectives: Connect to a central LDAP directory service.
• Unit 11: Controlling Access to Files
  Objectives: Manage group memberships, file permissions, and access control lists (ACL).
• Unit 12: Managing SELinux
  Objectives: Activate and deactivate SELinux; set file contexts; manage SELinux booleans; analyze SELinux
• Unit 13: Installing and Managing Software
  Objectives: Manage software and query information with yum; configure client-side yum repository files.
• Unit 14: Managing Installed Services
  Objectives: Managing services; verify connectivity to a service.
• Unit 15: Analyzing and Storing Logs
  Objectives: Managing logs with rsyslog and logrotate.
• Unit 16: Managing Processes
  Objectives: Identify and terminate processes, change the priority of a process, and use cron and at to schedule Processes.
• Unit 17: Tuning and Maintaining the Kernel I
  Objectives: List, load, and remove modules; use kernel arguments.
• Unit 18: System Recovery Techniques
  Objectives: Understand the boot process and resolve boot partitions.

Linux System Administration – III

• Course Duration: 22 Hours.
• Unit 1: Getting Started with the Classroom Environment
  Objective: Given a virtualized environment, begin to administrate multiple systems using prerequisite skills
• Unit 2: Enhance User Security
  Objective: system to use Kerberos to verify credentials and grant privileges via sudo.
• Unit 3: Bash Scripting and Tools
  Objective: Automate system administration tasks utilizing Bash scripts and text-based tools
• Unit 4: File Security with GnuPG.
  Objective: Secure files with GnuPG
• Unit 5: Software Management
  Objective: Use yum plug-ins to manage packages; understand the design of packages; build a simple package.
• Unit 6: Network Monitoring
  Objective: Profile running services, then capture and analyze network traffic
• Unit 7: Route Network Traffic
  Objective: Configuration system to route traffic and customize network parameters with sysctl.
• Unit 8: Secure Network Traffic
  Objective: Secure network traffic through through SSH port forwarding and iptables filtering/network address Translation (NAT)
• Unit 9: NTP Server Configuration
  Objective: Configure ad NTP Server.
• Unit 10: File system and Logs
  Objective: Manage local file system integrity; monitor system over time and system logging.
• Unit 11: Centralized and Secure Storage
  Objective: Access centralized storage (iSCSI) and encrypt file system.
• Unit 12: SSL-encapsulated Web Services
  Objective: Understand SSL certificates and deploy an SSL encapsulated web service.
• Unit 13: Web Server Additional Configuration
  Objective: Configure a web server with virtual hosts, dynamic content, and authenticated directories.
• Unit 14: Basic SMTP configuration
  Objective: Configuration an SMTP server for basic operation (null client, receiving mail, smart host relay).
• Basic 15: Caching-Only DNS Server
  Objective: Understand DNS resource records and configure a caching-only name-server.
• Unit 16: File Sharing with NFS.
  Objective: Configure file sharing between hosts with NFS.
• Unit 17: File Sharing with CIFS
  Objective: Configure file and print sharing between hosts with CIFS.
• Unit 18: File Sharing FTP.
  Objective: Configure file sharing with anonymous FTP.
• Unit 19: Troubleshooting Boot Process.
  Objective: Understand the boot process and recover unbootable system with rescue mode.