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RH401 Red Hat® Enterprise Deployment, Virtualization, and Systems Management

Course Schedule | Information

Price: Instructor Led $2798 | Virtual Classroom -Call for details

Details: *This is a 4 day course

Description

Get the skills you need to deploy and manage Red Hat systems to enterprise standards of reliability, availability, scalability, and manageability in this 4-day intensive hands-on lab course updated for the current version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Central to the course is hands-on training in the use of the Red Hat Network (RHN) Satellite Server for deployment, provisioning, and monitoring of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

Learn how to implement and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments efficiently and effectively in ways that make the entire enterprise deployment manageable by a team. Install and deploy a RHN Satellite Server and use this server to keep a range of systems up to date, to provision new systems, and to monitor existing systems. With the satellite server, create custom software channels and custom configuration channels. Use the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) to create your own RPMs, and manage the RPMs using CVS and the RHN Satellite Server. Finally, create a netdump server that collects kernel core dumps from many systems, saving them to a single system.

You'll also get a technology preview of Xen virtualization, a method for virtualizing a computer, allowing multiple host operating systems to run on a single hardware platform. The Xen technology preview will be taught using Fedora Core 5.

Highlights

Large-scale deployment and management of mission-critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems using the RHN and the RHN Satellite Server

Provision systems using the RHN Satellite Server, custom software channels, custom configuration channels, and kickstart

Use the RHN Satellite Server to configure monitoring probes

Construct and deploy custom RPMs

Use of DHCP and PXE boot for deployment

Manage configuration files using CVS

Use the network crash dump system to preserve kernel crash dumps

Audience

RH401 is aimed at senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals working in enterprise environments and mission-critical systems.

Prerequisites

RH401 requires RHCE-level skills. The RHCE certificate on 7.1 or higher is recommended but not required. Prerequisite skills can be evidenced by passing the RHCE Exam in either RH302, RH300, by taking RH253, or by possessing comparable skills and knowledge.

Note: Persons should not enroll in RH401 without meeting the above prerequisites. All prospective course participants who do not possess RHCE certification are strongly advised to contact Red Hat Global Learning Services for a skills assessment when they enroll.

Outline

1. Essential System Management

System management tasks

Standardization, centralization, and scalability

Provisioning and Automation

Red Hat tools for system management

2. Installing a Red Hat Network (RHN) 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

3. Building RPMs

Building open source software

Using RPM macros

Writing custom spec files

Using rpmbuild to create and sign RPMs

Guidelines for custom RPMs

4. 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

5. Managing the RHN Satellite Server

Preparing a client to use a RHN Satellite Server

Creating and managing custom channels

6. RHN 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

7. Red Hat Network Proxy Server

Hosted RHN vs. Proxy Server

Proxy Server software and hardware requirements

Installing RHN Proxy Server

Configuring clents to use RHN Proxy Server

8. Monitoring Systems with RHN

RHN monitoring architecture

RHN monitoring components

Probes and notifications

9. Network Kernel Crash Dumps and netdump

Saving crash signatures over the network

Saving crash dumps over the network

Configuring netdump servers

Configuring netdump clients

10. DHCP and PXE boot

DHCP server design and configuration

Preboot Execution Environment

Setup PXE and PXELINUX

Kickstart and DHCP

11. Xen Technology Preview

Understanding virtualization

Xen terminology

Hardware requirements

Xen tools

Creating and bootstrapping a domain

Accessing and monitoring a domain

The art of Xen security

Note: The Xen Technology Preview will be taught using Fedora Core 5. As of this writing, the Xen virtualization system is not available in Red Hat Enterprise Linux.