Description

Linux System Administrator Part Two (RH134) progresses the RHCSA certification journey for IT practitioners who have completed Red Hat System Administration I. It delves further into essential Linux administration capabilities, focusing on advanced storage setup, the deployment and installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, securing systems via SELinux, handling scheduled tasks, overseeing the startup sequence and system diagnostics, elementary performance optimization, and enhancing command-line efficiency through scripting and automation. This curriculum is designed with the assumption that participants have undergone Linux System Administrator Part One (RH124). This is the course equivalent of Red Hat Administration II.

Lesson 1: Improve Command Line Productivity

• 💬 Bash Shell Mastery

• 💻 Advanced Comand Line Operations and Redirection

• 🏆 I/O Redirection Challenge

• 💻 Text Processing with grep, awk, and sed

• 💻 Vim: A Modal Text Editor

• 🏆 Vim Challenge

• 💻 Bash Shell Conditional Logic, Loops, Variables and Arguments

Lesson 2: Scheduling Tasks

• 💬 Automating and Scheduling Tasks

• 💻 One Time Scheduling with at

• 💻 Recurring Tasks with cron and crontab

• 💻 Scheduling Complex Sequences with systemd Timers

Lesson 3: Analyze and Store Logs

• 💬 Understanding System Logs

• 💻 Using journalctl to Query the systemd Journal

• 💻 Configuring Log Rotation with logrotate and Preserving Logs

Lesson 4: Archiving and Transferring Files

• 💬 File Compression and Archiving

• 💻 Creating and Extracting Archives with tar, gzip, bzip2, and xz

• 💻 Securely Copying Files Between Systems using scp, rsync, and sftp

Lesson 5: System Performance Tuning

• 💬 Performance Monitoring and Management

• 💻 Identifying Resource-Intensive Processes with top and ps

• 💻 Adjusting Process Priority using nice, and renice

• 💻 Configuring System Tuning Profiles with tuned

Lesson 6: SELinux Security Management

• 💬 SELinux Basics

• 💻 Understanding SELinux Modes

• 💻 Managing SELinux Contexts for Files and Processes

Lesson 7: Logical Volume Management

• 💬 LVM Management

• 💻 Managing Physical Volumes and Volume Groups

• 💻 Creating, Extending, and Removing Logical Volumes

• 💻 Resizing File Systems with resize2fs, and xfs_growfs

Lesson 8: Network-Attached Storage

• 💬 NFS Configuration

• 💻 Setting up an NFS Server and Sharing Directories

Lesson 9: Controlling the Boot Process

• 💬 Boot Process Management

• 💻 Booting into Different System Targets (multi-user, graphical, rescue)

• 💻 Interrupting the Boot Process for Recovery

Lesson 10: Network Security Management

• 💻 Configuring Firewalld Rules using firewall-cmd

• 💻 Securing Services with Custom Firewall Zones

• 💻 SELinux Rules for Network Ports and Services

Lesson 11: Running Containers

• 💻 Installing and Configuring Podman for Container Management

• 💻 Configuring Containers to Run as systemd Services

• 💻 Attaching Persistent Storage to Containers

Lesson 12: Additional Learning

• 💻 Performance and Kernel Tuning

• 💻 Startup Scripts and Systemd Services