Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Management & Administration

Get Started with RHEL 8 / Access the Command Line

• Graphical login

• Non-graphical login

• Virtual consoles

• Unix / Linux standards

• BASH environment

• BASH command line format

• Aliases (defining and using)

• RHEL 8 system messages

• Editing shell command lines

• Keyboard control characters

Configure and Secure SSH - Part 1

• command line operations - local host

• command line operations - remote host

Get Help in RHEL 8

• RHEL 8 help information

• BASH command help information

• RHEL 8 package help information

• RHEL 8 online documentation

• Linux graphical help information

Access Linux Filesystems

• Complete file specification

• Default parts of file specifications

• Directory specifications

• File specification

• File characteristics information

• Locating files and directories

Manage Files from the Command Line

• Basic file manipulation commands

• More file manipulation commands

• Defining and using hard links

• Defining and using symbolic links

• Redirection of input, output, and error information

• Pipelines

Archive and Transfer Files

• tar

• gzip and gunzip

• remote file operations - wget utility

• remote file operations - ssh utilities

• rsync

• vsftpd package

• managing vsftpd

Control Access to Files

• Protecting files (chmod, umask)

• Special file attributes (chattr, lsattr)

Create, View, and Edit Text Files

• File manipulation commands

• Redirecting standard output

• Vim editor (introduction)

• Gedit editor (introduction)

• Nano editor (introduction)

Monitor and Manage Linux Processes

• User working environment

• User process characteristics

• Displaying process information (static) - ps

• Displaying process information (dynamic) - top

• Controlling process execution

• Adjusting process priority

• Process monitoring tools

• Cache management

• Process affinity

Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

• Installing RHEL 8 system software

• RHEL 8 directed installation

• RHEL 8 directed installation - first boot

Analyze Servers and Get Support

• RHEL 8 administrative software

• cockpit

• RHEL 8 web-based portal

Install and Update Software

• Managing RHEL 8 software packages

• rpm command usage

• dnf / yum command usage

• Legacy (non-streamed) package repository setup

• Streamed (AppStream)package repository setup

• Apache web server configuration

Manage Local Linux Users and Groups

• user account management

• /etc/passwd file

• /etc/group file

• user account creation

• environment files

• password aging

• PAM

• account deletion

• RHEL 8 administrator responsibilities

• using the root account

Configure and Secure Open SSH Service - Part 2

• command line operations - remote host - ssh

• Manage Networking

• network configuration

• host configuration

• gateway configuration

• maintaining system time via an ntp server

• maintaining system time via chrony

• time zone manipulation

Control Services and Daemons

• RHEL 8 startup configuration

• systemd target files

• systemd services

• systemd actions

• systemd startup services

• boot logging

• systemd journal logging

Analyze and Store Logs

• system logging mechanism

• kernel message logging

• system logging configuration

• remote system logging

• logrotate