RED HAT SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION I

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 DAY ONE DAY TWO DAY THREE DAY FOUR DAY FIVE

Managing
Introduction Networking General Services File Sharing
Storage 1

GNOME Manage Managing Securing

Users / Groups
Desktop Logical Volumes Storage 2 Services

Manage Files System

Manage Files Installation Review
(Nautilus) Resources

Manage
Getting Help Permissions Virtualization
Software

Text-based
Local Services Remote Admin Booting
Help

Bash

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 DAY ONE Unit 1:
Get Started with the
Introduction
GNOME Graphical Desktop
GNOME Desktop ● Using the GNOME Desktop
● Editing Files with gedit
Manage Files (Nautilus)

Getting Help

Local Services

Bash

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 DAY ONE Unit 2:
Manage Files Graphically
Introduction
with Nautilus
GNOME Desktop ● Managing Local Files with
Nautilus
Manage Files (Nautilus) ●
Managing Remote Files with
Nautilus
Getting Help

Local Services

Bash

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 DAY ONE Unit 3:
Get Help in a Graphical
Introduction
Environment
GNOME Desktop ● Research Local Documentation
● Research On-line
Manage Files (Nautilus) Documentation
●
Getting the Most from Red Hat
Getting Help Global Support Services

Local Services

Bash

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 DAY ONE Unit 4:
Configure Local Services
Introduction

GNOME Desktop ● Understand the Role of the Root

User
Manage Files (Nautilus) ●
Manage the System Clock
●
Manage Print Queues
Getting Help
● Manage Print Jobs
Local Services

Bash

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 DAY ONE Unit 5:
Get Started with Bash
Introduction

GNOME Desktop ● Bash Syntax

● Using Bash
Manage Files (Nautilus)
● Launching Graphical Tools from
Bash
Getting Help

Local Services

Bash

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 DAY ONE DAY TWO DAY THREE DAY FOUR DAY FIVE

Managing
Introduction Networking General Services File Sharing
Storage 1

GNOME Manage Managing Securing

Users / Groups
Desktop Logical Volumes Storage 2 Services

Manage Files System

Manage Files Installation Review
(Nautilus) Resources

Manage
Getting Help Permissions Virtualization
Software

Text-based
Local Services Remote Admin Booting
Help

Bash

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 DAY TWO Unit 6:
Manage Physical Storage I
Manage Physical Storage 1

Manage Logical Volumes ● Describe MBR: Primary,

System Resources
Manage Software
Text-based Help
Extended, Logical Partitions
●
List Available Disk Devices
●
Introduce Classroom Virtual
Machines
● Create a New Partition and
Format It With a Filesystem

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 DAY TWO Unit 7:
Manage Logical Volumes
Manage Physical Storage 1

Manage Logical Volumes ● LVM Concepts and Terms

System Resources
Manage Software
Text-based Help
● Displaying LVM Usage
● Initial LVM Deployment
● Extending a Volume Group
● Extending a Logical Volume
● Removing a Physical Volume

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 Logical Volume Concepts

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 Logical Volume Concepts

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 Extending a Volume Group

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 Extending a Volume Group

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 Extending a Logical Volume

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 DAY TWO Unit 8:
Monitor System Resources
Manage Physical Storage 1

Manage Logical Volumes ● Understand Process, Priority,

System Resources
Manage Software
Text-based Help
and Signal Concepts
●
Monitor Processes by CPU or
Memory Consumption
● Manage Running Processes
● Monitor Disk Usage

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 DAY TWO Unit 9:
Manage System Software
Manage Physical Storage 1

Manage Logical Volumes ● Identify Installed Packages

● Register with Red Hat Network
System Resources
● Install, Remove, and Update
Packages
Manage Software

Text-based Help

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 DAY TWO Unit 10:
Getting Help in a Textual
Manage Physical Storage 1
Environment
Manage Logical Volumes ● Read Documentation Using man
● Identify Relevant man-pages by
System Resources Keyword
●
Read Documentation Using
Manage Software pinfo
● Documentation in
Text-based Help /usr/share/doc

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 DAY ONE DAY TWO DAY THREE DAY FOUR DAY FIVE

Managing
Introduction Networking General Services File Sharing
Storage 1

GNOME Manage Managing Securing

Users / Groups
Desktop Logical Volumes Storage 2 Services

Manage Files System

Manage Files Installation Review
(Nautilus) Resources

Manage
Getting Help Permissions Virtualization
Software

Text-based
Local Services Remote Admin Booting
Help

Bash

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 DAY THREE Unit 11:
Establish Network
Networking
Connectivity
Users / Groups ● Essential Network Concepts
● Linux Network Configuration
Manage Files
● Confirming Network
Functionality
Permissions

Remote Admin

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 IPv6 Address:
2001:0db8:0000:0000:0215:58ff:fec4:c6fe =

0010000000000001:0000110110111000:0000000000000000:0000000000000000:
0000001000010101:0101100011111111:1111111011000100:1100011011111110

= 2001:0db8::215:58ff:fec4:c6fe (abbreviated form)

Netmask:
Normally 64 bits long (/64). Host part is therefore 64 bits long (128 - 64 = 64).
Usually not written as ffff:ffff:ffff:ffff:0000:0000:0000:0000

Network:
2001:0db8:0000:0000:: =
0010000000000001:0000110110111000:0000000000000000:0000000000000000

Host:
::0215:58ff:fec4:c6fe =
0000001000010101:0101100011111111:1111111011000100:1100011011111110

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 DAY THREE Unit 12:
Administer Users and
Networking
Groups
Users / Groups ● User and Group Administration

Manage Files

Permissions

Remote Admin

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 DAY THREE Unit 13:
Manage Files from the
Networking
Command-line
Users / Groups ● The Linux Filesystem Hierarchy
● Navigate with Absolute
Manage Files Pathnames
●
Command-line File Management
Permissions
● Save Typing With Relative
Pathnames
Remote Admin

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 DAY THREE Unit 14:
Secure Linux File Access
Networking

Users / Groups ● User, Group, Other (UGO)

Concepts
Manage Files ●
Manage Permissions Using GUI
Tools
Permissions ● Manage Permissions from the
Command-line
Remote Admin

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 DAY THREE Unit 15:
Administer Remote
Networking
Systems
Users / Groups ● Remote GNOME Desktop Access
● Remote Shell Access
Manage Files
● Remote File Transfers
Permissions
● Archives and File Compression
● Using SSH Keys
Remote Admin

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 DAY ONE DAY TWO DAY THREE DAY FOUR DAY FIVE

Managing
Introduction Networking General Services File Sharing
Storage 1

GNOME Manage Managing Securing

Users / Groups
Desktop Logical Volumes Storage 2 Services

Manage Files System

Manage Files Installation Review
(Nautilus) Resources

Manage
Getting Help Permissions Virtualization
Software

Text-based
Local Services Remote Admin Booting
Help

Bash

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 DAY FOUR Unit 16:
Configure General
General Services
Services
Managing Storage 2 ● Deploy a Generic Network
Service
Installation ●
Securing SSH Access
●
Configuring a VNC Server
Virtualization
● Secure Access to a Remote
GNOME Desktop
Booting

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 DAY FOUR Unit 17:
Manage Physical Storage II
General Services

Managing Storage 2 ● Examine File System Attributes

● Modify File System Attributes
Installation
● Delete an Existing Partition
Virtualization
● Swap Space Concepts
● Managing Swap Space
Booting

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 DAY FOUR Unit 18:
Install Linux Graphically
General Services

Managing Storage 2 ● Graphical Installation with

Anaconda
Installation ●
Post-install Configuration with
Firstboot
Virtualization

Booting

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 DAY FOUR Unit 19:
Manage Virtual Machines
General Services

Managing Storage 2 ● Introduction to KVM

Virtualization
Installation ●
Virtual Guest Installation
●
Configuring Guests to Start at
Virtualization Boot Time

Booting

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 DAY FOUR Unit 20:
Control the Boot Process
General Services

Managing Storage 2 ● Booting an Alternate Kernel

● Booting into a Different
Installation Runlevel
●
Getting Past a GRUB
Virtualization Misconfiguration
● Making Persistent GRUB
Booting Changes
● Passing Kernel Arguments
● Changing the Default Runlevel

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 DAY ONE DAY TWO DAY THREE DAY FOUR DAY FIVE

Managing
Introduction Networking General Services File Sharing
Storage 1

GNOME Manage Managing Securing

Users / Groups
Desktop Logical Volumes Storage 2 Services

Manage Files System

Manage Files Installation Review
(Nautilus) Resources

Manage
Getting Help Permissions Virtualization
Software

Text-based
Local Services Remote Admin Booting
Help

Bash

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 DAY FIVE Unit 21:
Deploy File Sharing
File Sharing
Services
Securing Services ● Deploy an FTP Server
● FTP Server Configuration
Review
● Deploy a Web Server
● Web Server Configuration

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 DAY FIVE Unit 22:
Secure Network Services
File Sharing

Securing Services ● Activate and Deactivate Firewall

Protection
Review ●
Modify the Firewall to Allow
Access to Trusted Services
● Basic SELinux Concepts
● SELinux Modes
● Changing SELinux Modes
● Displaying SELinux Contexts

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 DAY FIVE Unit 23:
Comprehensive Review
File Sharing

Securing Services

Review

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