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Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Mangement(RH401)
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Overview:
- Red Hat
Enterprise Deployment and systems Management(RH401)
Red Hat® Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management is a lab based
course that explores the concepts and methods necessary for successful
large-scale deployment and management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
Experienced system administrators will learn how to implement and manage Red Hat
Enterprise Linux deployments efficiently and effectively, in ways that make
their systems manageable by a team of administrators. Central to the course is
the training on the use of the Red Hat Network Satelite Server for deployment and provisioning of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems. By the end of this course,
you will have built your own RPM packages and will have used Subversion to make
changes to scripts.
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Prerequisites:
RHCE
certification or equivalent experience in basic configuration of the network
services.
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Audience:
- System
Administrators, conultants and other IT professionals.
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Course Content:
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Unit 1:
Essential system management
- Goals of enterprise system management
- Standardization,centralization and scalability
- Provisioning and automation
Unit 2: Installing Red
Hat Network Satelite server
- Introducation to Red Hat@ Network
Satelite:features,prerequisites
- Installing satelite server softwar
- Understaning software channels and entitilements
- Importing channel content a satelite server
- Xinetd and service limits
Unit 3:
Red Hat Network organization
- organization managemen and trust relationships
- Managing user accounts
- Assigning user roles (security)
- Managing system groups
Unit 4: Managing changes
with revision control
- Introducing revision control concepts.
- Basic Subversion repository administration
- Using Subversion to manage revisions
Unit 5: Red Hat Network
client configuration
- Secure communication with SSL
- Red Hat Network registration
- Creating and using activation keys
- Registration automation with bootstrap.sh
- Troubleshooting RHN registration
Unit 6:
Red Hat Netork software management
- Software channel relantioships
- Cloning existing software channels
- Managing custom software channels
- Notifying clients of changes: managing errta
Unit 7: Building RPMs
- Building open source software
- Using RPM macros
- Writing custom spec files
- Using rpmbuild to create RPMs
- signing packages for security
Unit 8: RHN application
programmeer interface
- Uses for Red Hat Network API
- Basic RHN API program structure
- Sample programs
Unit 9:Configuration
file management with Red Hat Network
- Managing configuration channels
- Configuration file macros
- Configuration file managment using command-line tools
Unit 10: Provisioning
with kickstart
- Anaconda kickstart options
- Builiding provisioning environments
- Using Cobbler for provisioning
Unit 11: Virtual machine
management
- Virtual host/platforms entitlements
- Controling Xn guests using RHN
- Red Hat Network management of xen virtual machines
Unit 12: RHN Satelite
server administration
- High avaliablity options
- Embedded database management
- Certificate management
- Changing from disconnected to connected operation
- Inter-satelite Synchronization(ISS)
- Exporting software channels
- Troubleshooting
Unit 13: Red Hat Network
Proxy Server
- RHN Proxy Server installation
- Configuring a client to use an RHN proxy server
- Managing software with RHN package manager
- Monitoring network traffic andopen ports
- Detecting modified files
- Investigating and verifying detected intrusions
- Recovering from, reporting, and documenting intrusions
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Certification Exam:
- This is exam is
performance-based, meaning that candidates must perform tasks on a live system,
rather than answering questions about how one might perform those tasks.
- 11 Training
units will be provided.
- Official course Material will be required to appear this exam.
- Exam Duration – 3hrs.
- Exam Fees – Rs. 10,000/- per candidate. Fees should be paid by DD drown in favor of “Red Hat India Pvt. Ltd.”
Payable at Mumbai.
- Exam results are
emailed within 5 business days following the exam
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Sample Certificate:
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