Red Hat Enterprise Linux Survival Skills Series

			       Daily Administration Tasks	


				  COURSE DESCRIPTION

	This series teaches the basic working environment of an RHEL (Red
	Hat Enterprise Linux)  system. It introduces commonly required 
	operations that can be performed by entering commands interactively 
	in a command terminal, along with functions available in the Desktop
 	Environments (KDE and Gnome).

	The courses are specifically for RHEL on any supported hardware 
	platform.


				   COURSE OBJECTIVES

	Each participant will be able to use Bash Shell techniques and
    	commands to maintain collections of files, create files using
    	interactive editor utilities, create and execute basic command
   	procedures, communicate with other users, and tailor the interactive
    	environment to meet their needs. Day-to-day system administration 
	functions are also shown by commands and graphical interfaces.


				COURSE SESSIONS OVERVIEW

	The sessions are oriented in a layered approach: skills and techniques
	shown build upon the previous set. The Administration session is
	two (2) days in length, comprising a set of operations that have
	been shown to be absolutely essential to the successful installation,
	starting,stopping, and operating a Red Hat Linux system. 

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		SURVIVAL SKILLS  COMMON  ADMINISTRATIVE  FUNCTIONS  (2 days)


				   COURSE TOPICS 

			System Concepts for Linux Administrators
				System administrator functions and duties
				Using the root account
				RHEL graphical and non-graphical interfaces
				Manipulating system default environment files
				Using cron tables to automate repetitive tasks

               	 	Startup and Shutdown
				Overview of boot operations
				Startup methods and procedures
				Adding procedures to the startup mechanism
				Shutdown methods and control

			System Installation and Updating
				Installation types and methods
				Installing the RHEL operating system (server)
				Updating RHEL modules
				RHEL product control (rpm, yum)
				Obtaining and installing patches to RHEL
                    		
			Managing of System Users
				/etc/passwd  /etc/group  files and contents
				Creation of a user account
				Setting up user environment files
				Password aging (via PAM and other settings)
				Removing a user account

			Managing Disk and Tape Volumes
				Whole disk and LVM disk layouts
				Device naming conventions
				File system structure contents
				Creating file systems with mkfs
				mounting and umounting file systems
				backup and restore utilities

			Network Setup and Configuration
				Affected files and utilities
				Defining values for: 
					router
					subnet address
					DNS server information
 

			Print Queue Management
				Defining local print queues 
				Defining network print queues 
				Defining print queues on Windows servers
				Defining forms in RHEL
				Scheduling of jobs




				  COURSE DURATION

    	This course normally requires two (2) days, approximately 50%
   	lecture and 50% lab time.



				COURSE PREREQUISITES

   	 This course is considered to be an advanced RHEL course. Attendance 
   	 at the RHEL Absolute System Essentials class is mandatory, or the
	 participant must have prior 'user level' experience with RHEL.