RH401 - Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management.

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Important notice!

RH401 now has expanded deployment and monitoring coverage!

Clustering material moved to RH436

The RH401 course has been modified to focus more closely on deployment and systems management. As a result, course material on clustering
has been removed from this course and moved to RH436.

RH401 now includes expanded material on the use of the Red Hat Network Satellite Server, including expanded coverage of the Red Hat Network Proxy Server; new material on monitoring using the Red Hat Network Satellite Server; and the use of DHCP and PXE boot for deployment.

In addition, the RH401 course now includes a technology preview of the Xen virtualization system using Fedora Core 5.

These changes are now in effect in North America. For the expected dates of changes in other locations, please contact your local Red Hat office.

People interested in clustering should enroll in RH436 Red Hat Enterprise Storage Management.

Course Summary


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.

RH401 Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management Description

Goal:

RH401 is designed to train people with RHCE level competency on skills required to deploy and manage Red Hat systems to enterprise standards of reliability, availability, scalability and manageability.

Central to the course is hands-on training in the use of the Red Hat Network Satellite Server for deployment, provisioning, and monitoring of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

Persons taking RH401 will 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. They will learn to install and deploy a Red Hat Network Satellite Server and use this server to keep a range of systems up to date; to provision new systems; to monitor existing systems. With the satellite server, they will learn to create custom software channels and custom configuration channels. They will learn to use the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) to create their own RPMs, and manage the RPMs using CVS and using the Red Hat Satellite Server. Finally, they will learn to create a netdump server that collects kernel core dumps from many systems, saving them to a single system.

Also part of this course is a technology preview of Xen virtualization on Fedora Core 5. Xen is a method for virtualizing a computer, allowing multiple host operating systems to run on a single hardware platform.

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.

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, or by taking RH253 or 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.

Duration :

4 days

What you will learn:

  1. Essential System Management
    • System management tasks
    • Standardization, centralization, and scalability
    • Provisioning and automation
    • Red Hat tools for system managment
  2. 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
  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 Red Hat Network Satellite Server
    • Preparing a client to use an RHN Satellite Server
    • Creating and managing custom channels
  6. 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
  7. 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
  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.