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RH401 - Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management |
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RH401 Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management is a 4-day intensive hands-on lab course in skills and methods critical to large-scale deployment and management of mission-critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems using the Red Hat Network and the Red Hat Network Satellite Server; provisioning systems using the Red Hat Network Satellite Server, custom software channels, custom configuration channels, and kickstart; configuration of monitoring probes using the Red Hat Network Satellite Server; construction and deployment of custom RPMs; use of DHCP and PXE boot for deployment; use of CVS for managing configuration files; preservation of kernel crash dumps using the network crash dump system. |
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RH401 is aimed at senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals working in enterprise environments and mission-critical systems.
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RH401 requires RHCE-level skills or comparable skills and knowledge. Duration: 4 days (32 hours) |
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Essential System Management
- System management tasks
- Standardization, centralization, and scalability
- Provisioning and automation
- Red Hat tools for system managment
Installing a Red Hat Network Satellite Server
- Features and advantages of the RHN Satellite Server
- Types of RHN Satellite Servers
- RHN Satellite Server hardware requirements
- Understanding software channels
- Installing an RHN Satellite Server
- Populating an RHN Satellite Server
- Troubleshooting an RHN Satellite Server installation
Building RPMs
- Clock synchronization with NTP
- Using RPM macros
- Writing custom spec files
- Using rpmbuild to create and sign RPMs
- Guidelines for custom RPMs
Use of CVS to Manage Configuration Files
- Basics of CVS for system administrators
- Creating local and remote repository access
- Structuring a CVS project
- Using CVS to track, log, and reverse configuration changes
Managing the Red Hat Network Satellite Server
- Preparing a client to use an RHN Satellite Server
- Creating and managing custom channels
Red Hat Network Management and Provisioning
- Types of RHN service
- Elements of a deployment system
- Use of custom channels in a deployment system
- Using configuration channels to maintain system configuration
- Automating installations through kickstart
Red Hat Network Proxy Server
- Hosted RHN versus Proxy Server
- Proxy Server software and hardware requirements
- Installing RHN Proxy Server
- Configuring clients to use a RHN Proxy Server
Monitoring Systems with RHN
- RHN monitoring architecture
- RHN monitoring components
- Probes and notifications
Network Kernel Crash Dumps and netdump
- Saving crash signatures over the network
- Saving crash dumps over the network
- Configuring netdump servers
- Configuring netdump clients
DHCP and PXE boot
- DHCP server design and configuration
- Preboot Execution Environment
- Setup PXE and PXELINUX
- Kickstart and DHCP
Xen Technology Preview
- Understanding virtualization
- Xen terminology
- Hardware requirements
- Xen tools
- Creating and bootstrapping a domain
- Aaccessing and monitoring a domain
- The art of Xen security
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