RHCDS Syllabus

RH401 Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management

Course Outline

 Unit 1 - Essential System Management

• Goals of Enterprise system management
• Standardization, centralization, and scalability
•  Provisioning and automation

Unit 2 - Installing a Red Hat Network Satellite Server

• Introduction to RHN Satellite - features, prerequisites
• Installing Satellite Server software
• Understanding software channels and entitlements
• Importing channel content into a Satellite Server

Unit 3 - Red Hat Network Organization

•  Organization management and trust relationships
• Managing user accounts
• Assigning user roles (security)
• Managing system groups

Unit 4 - Managing Changes with Revision Control

• Introducing revision control concepts
• Basic Subversion repository administration
• Using Subversion to manage revisions

Unit 5 - Red Hat Network Client Configuration

• Secure communication with SSL
• Red Hat Network registration
• Creating and using activation keys
• Registration automation with bootstrap.sh
• Troubleshooting RHN registration

Unit 6 - Red Hat Network Software Management

• Software channel relationships
• Cloning existing software channels
• Managing custom software channels
• Notifying clients of changes: managing errata

Unit 7 - Building RPMs

• Building open source software
• Using RPM macros
• Writing custom spec files
• Using rpmbuild to create RPMs
•  Signing packages for security

Unit 8 - RHN Application Programmer Interface

• Uses for Red Hat Network API
• Basic RHN API program structure
• Sample programs

Unit 9 - Configuration File Management with Red Hat Network

• Managing configuration channels
• Configuration file macros
• Configuration file management using command-line tools

Unit 10 - Provisioning with Kickstart

• Anaconda kickstart options
• Building a provisioning environment
• Using Cobbler for provisioning

Unit 11 - Virtual Machine Management

• Virtual host/virtual platform entitlements
• Controlling Xen guests using RHN
• Red Hat Network management of Xen virtual machines

Unit 12 - RHN Satellite Server Administration

• High-availability options
• Embedded database management
• Certificate management
• Changing from disconnected to connected operation
• Inter-satellite synchronization (ISS)
• Exporting software channels
• Troubleshooting

Unit 13 - Red Hat Network Proxy Server

• RHN proxy server installation
• Configuring a client to use a RHN proxy server
• Managing software with RHN package manager

RH423 Red Hat Enterprise Directory Services and Authentication

Course Outline

• Introduction to Directory Services
  • What is a directory?
  • LDAP: models, schema, and attributes
  • Object classes
  • LDIF
•  The LDAP Naming Model
  • Directory information trees and Distingued Names
  • X.500 and "Internet" naming suffixes
  • Planning the directory hierarchy
•  Red Hat Directory Server: Basic Configuration
  • Installation and setup of Red Hat Directory Server
  • Using the Red Hat Console
  • Using logging to monitor Red Hat Directory Server activity
  • Backing up and restoring the directory
  • Basic performance tuning with indexes
• Searching and Modifying the LDAP Directory
  • Using command line utilities to search the directory
  • Search filter syntax
  • Updating the directory
•  Red Hat Directory Server: Authentication and Security
  • Configuring TLS security
  • Using access control instructions (ACI's)
  • ACI's and the Red Hat Console
•  Linux User Authentication with NSS and PAM
  • Understanding authentication and authorization
  • Name service switch (NSS)
  •  Advanced pluggable authentication modules (PAM) configuration
• Centralized User Authentication with LDAP
  • Central account management with LDAP
  • Using migration scripts to migrate existing data into an LDAP server
  • LDAP user authentication
• Kerberos and LDAP
  • Introduction to Kerberos
  • Configuring the Kerberos key distribution center (KDC) and clients
  • Configuring LDAP to support Kerberos
•  Directory Referrals and Replication
  • Referrals and replication
  • Single master configuration
  • Multiple master configuration
  • Planning for directory server availability
•  Cross-Platform Centralized Identity Management
  • Synchronizing Red Hat Directory Server with Active Directory
  • Managing users with Winbind and LDAP
  • Mapping attributes between Linux and Windows

RH436 Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management

Course Outline

• Review Red Hat Enterprise Clustering and Storage Management Technologies
• Linux Dynamic Device Management
  • udev Features
  • udev Rule Configuration
•  iSCSI
  • iSCSI as a Shared Storage Device
  • Configuring an iSCSI initiator
  • Configuring an iSCSI target
  • Authentication
• Advanced Software RAID
  • Types and Differences
  • Monitoring
  • Optimization Techniques
  • Growth and High Availability
• Device Mapper and Multipathing
  • Mapping Targets
  • LVM2 Snapshots
  • Multipath Device Configuration
• Cluster Suite Overview
  • Design and Elements of Clustering
  • Cluster Configuration Tools
  • Clustered Logical Volumes and Lock Management
• Quorum and the Cluster Manager
  • Intracluster Communication
  • Cluster Tools
• Fencing and Failover
  • Fencing Components
  • Failover Domains
• Quorum Disk
  •  Heuristic Configuration
• Service Manager
  • Resource Groups and Recovery
  • Hierarchical Resource Ordering
  • High Availability Services
• Global File System (GFS)
  • Implementation and Configuration
  • Lock Management
  • Planning For and Growing On-line GFS
  • Monitoring Tools
  • Journal Configuration and Management