Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3
StayAhead Training
Summary
- Certificate of completion - Free
- Tutor is available to students
Overview
This highly practical instructor led Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 3 training course is designed to give the delegate practical experience in the areas of networking, security, basics of shell scripting and elementary installing of MariaDB. With a strong emphasis on practical hands-on training, this course will teach the essential network, security and shell scripting tasks required on a Red Hat Linux system.
Exercises and examples are used throughout the course to give practical hands-on experience with the techniques covered.
The delegate will learn and acquire skills as follows:
- Review of Controlling Services and deamons
- Introduction to IPV6
- Configure Aggregated network links (teaming) and Bridging
- Set up network routing using static routes
- Configure a Secure Firewall Configuration
- Configure a DNS server
- Configure a basic email server
- Configure iSCSI
- Configure an NFS server and SMB shares
- Configure the system to use Kerberos security
- Create conditional shell scripts to automate tasks
- Install, configure and backup a MariaDB database
- Setup a Network Time Protocol Server
- Understand encryption techniques
- Configure SSH
- Configure HTTP/HTTPS servers
- Overview of Linux Containers and Docker
Pre-Requisite Courses
- Administering Red Hat Linux 7 - Part 2
- FastTrack to Red Hat Linux 7 System Administrator
Description
Day 1 :
Course Introduction
- Administration and Course Materials
- Course Structure and Agenda
- Delegate and Trainer Introductions
Session 1: RECAP AND FURTHER DETAILS ON SYSTEMD
- Recap of systemd
- systemd Wants and Requires
- Useful systemd related utilities
- Exercise
Session 2: NETWORK MANAGEMENT AND IPV6
- Routing under Linux
- IPROUTE suite of programs
- Configuring network cards and Routing
- Configuring the system as a Gateway
- IPV6 Addressing
- Local Network Bridges
- Network tools: tcpdump, netstat, wireshark,etc
- Configure Ethernet Bonding (Link aggregation, teaming)
- Exercise
Session 3: FILE SECURITY AND INTEGRITY
- System Security
- Extended Permissions
- GPG
- Why encrypt data and verify the sender
- Key pairs and management
- Using Digital signatures
- Checking and repairing file systems
- Exercise
Session 4: SECURING NETWORKS: FIREWALLS
- Packet Filtering using firewalld
- Rich Rules and their Operation
- Source and Destination NAT Configuration
- Masquerading
- Exercise
Day 2 :
Session 5: DOMAIN NAME SERVER (DNS)
- The DNS/BIND system under Red Hat Linux
- Name Server Hierarchy
- Setting up DNS
- Master/Slave Zones
- Reverse lookup Zones
- Record types and their syntax
- Name Daemon Control Utility (rndc)
- Address Match Lists (acl)
- Configuring a Caching Only Name Server
- DNS in a chroot environment
- Testing a DNS server
- Exercise
Session 6: CENTRALISED AND SECURE STORAGE
- What is ISCSI
- Setting up ISCSI Target and Initiator
- Accessing Centralised Storage
- Accessing encrypted file systems
- Exercise
Session 7: CONFIGURING NETWORK TIME PROTOCOL
- Configuring Time Synchronisation
- Stratum Levels
- Choosing a time source
- Choosing an NTP Service
- Chrony Client Configuration
- Chronyc command
- Configuring a Chrony Server
- Chrony Security
- Exercise
Session 8: FURTHER SECURITY FEATURES
- su and sudo configuration
- Configuring Kerberos Server and Client
- Exercise
Session 9: SHARING FILES ACROSS THE NETWORK (NFS & SMB)
- Configure file sharing using NFS
- NFS commands
- Automounter
- Introduction to CIFS(SAMBA)
- Configure file sharing between hosts with CIFS
- Using Konqueror to access shares
- Exercise
Day 3 :
Session 10: BASIC MAIL SERVER CONFIGURATION
- Email Components
- Mail User, Mail Transport and Mail User Agents
- Postfix Configuration
- Configuring a null client using Postfix
- Dovecot - POP and IMAP services
- Exercise
Session 11: SSL, TSL AND WEB SERVICE CONFIGURATION
- Data Security and Encryption
- Public Key Encryption
- Configuring Virtual Hosts : Name And IP Based Access
- Displaying Apache Web Server Information and Status
- Dynamic Virtual hosts
- Configuring HTTPS
- Signed Certificates
- Apache SSL Configuration File
- HTTPS Virtual Hosts
- Exercise
Session 12: CONFIGURING A MARIADB DATABASE
- Install and configure MariaDB
- Backup and Restore a database
- Create a simple database schema
- Perform simple SQL queries on the database
- Exercise
Session 13: SHELL SCRIPTING
- What is a shell script?
- Creating and executing shell scripts
- User interaction
- Command line arguments
- Exercise
Day 4 :
Session 14: CONDITIONAL SHELL SCRIPTING
- Decision constructs using the 'if' statement
- Case statement
- Looping constructs: for/while/until
- Automating administrative tasks
- Exercise
Session 15: OVERVIEW OF LINUX CONTAINERS
- What is a Linux Container
- What are the advantages of Containers
- What is Docker
Who is this course for?
This course aims to provide the delegate with the knowledge to be able to perform more advanced administration of networking facilities, securing the system and the use of scripting on a Red Hat Linux system.
Requirements
The delegate should be competent with common command line tools, the vi editor, managing logical volumes, using systemd, configuring SELinux and also be capable of creating client access to NFS and CIFS. Students should also be capable of configuring kickstart, basic networking, basic firewalls and scheduling jobs to run automatically.
The requirements for this course can be met by either of the pre-requisite courses listed.
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Certificate of completion
Digital certificate - Included
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