 Overview of Linux Distributions

 Connect from putty

Accessing the Command Line

 Overview about Bash Shell

 The GNOME Desktop Environment

Manage Files From the Command Line

 File System Structure in Linux

 Identifying Linux File types
 Absolute and relative paths
 Command Line File Management
 Soft Link And Hard Link In Linux
 Pattern Matching
 Manage Files From the Command Line in Red Hat Linux

Getting Help, Creating and Editing Text Files in Linux

 Reading Manual Pages

 GNU Info
 Input Output Redirection in Linux
 Pipelines in Linux
 tee command
 Editing files with VIM
 Bash Variable
 Environmental Variable
 System Variable

User Administration

 Overview of User Administration

 Types of User Account
 Practice Lab Session
 Overview of Shadow file
 Syntax of sudoers file
 password aging policy

Controlling Access to Files

 Overview of Permissions in Linux

 Attributes of a file
 Special Permissions - SetUID
 Command to apply SetUID
 Special Permissions - SetGID
 Special Permissions - Sticky Bit

Managing Linux Processes

 Overview of Load Average in Linux

 top command
 Lab Session on Load Average
  Process Management
 Foreground & Background process
 Process stat codes
 Managing Linux Processes in Red Hat Linux

About Red Hat Enterprise Linux

 Overview of RHEL8
 Introduction to Systemd
 journal

Configuring And Securing SSH

 About OpenSSH
 SSH Hot Keys
 SSH Key Based Authentication
 Configuring and Securing SSH

Analyzing & Storing Logs

 System Logging
 Logging events to the system
 Collecting Information using journalctl
 Log file rotation
 Analyzing and Storing Logs in Red Hat Linux

Archiving & transferring files

 Archive a file using tar command

 tar operations
 tar compression options
 Archiving and Transferring Files

Managing Networking

 TCP/IP Network Model

 Configuring network

Accessing Linux File Systems

 Identifying File Systems

 Block Devices
 Lab Session on File System, mount, unmount etc
 locate command
 find command

Managing Remote Server

 Monitoring system using web console

Scheduling Future Tasks

  Overview of Scheduling Tasks
 Scheduling a Deferred User Job
 Controlling Nice Values with Queue Designations
 Scheduling Recurring User Jobs
 Scheduling a job for a specific time - 1
 Scheduling Recurring System Jobs
 Scheduling tasks with Systemd Timer
 Practice Lab Session - Systemd Timer
 Managing Temporary Files
 Cleaning Temporary Files with a Systemd Timer
 Configure systemd-tmpfiles to remove unused temporary files from /tmp
 Configure systemd-tmpfiles to periodically purge files from another directory
Adjusting Tuning Profiles
 Overview about tuning profiles
 Managing profiles from the command line
 Tune a server’s performance by activating the tuned service and apply a tuning
profile to powersave.
 Process Scheduling & Multitasking
 Displaying Nice Levels from the Command Line
 Changing the Nice Level of an Existing Process
 Influencing Process Scheduling
Controlling Access to files with ACLs
 Access Control List Concepts
 Set ACLs on files
 Default ACLs
 Viewing and Interpreting ACL Permissions
 set acl on files
 set acl on directories
 Mask to limit the set of permissions
 default acl
 Guided Exercise on ACL
Managing SELinux Security
 SELinux Security Concepts
 SELinux Context
 SELinux Modes
  Apache service without SELinux Protection (DAC)
 Apache service with SELinux Protection (MAC)
 Practical approach to understand SELinux
 Change context temporary
 Change context permanently
 SELinux inheritance and its pitfalls
 SELinux Booleans
 Lab - SELinux Booleans
 Audit logs & Troubleshooting SELinux
Adding Partitions, File Systems, and Persistent mounts
 Partitioning a Disk
 Benefits of disk partitioning
 MBR Partitioning Scheme
 Primary & Extended Partitions
 GPT Partitioning Scheme
 How to identify what partitioning standard is used
 Managing Partitions with Parted
 Creating a file system
 Swap Space Concepts
 Create a Swap Partitions
 Setting the Swap Space Priority
Creating Logical Volumes
 The LVM Logical Volume Manager
 Features of LVM
 LVM Architecture Overview
 Architectural Overview via Diagram
 LVM Components - PV, VG, LV
 Creation of PV, VG, LV
 Create File System, Mount Point
 Remove a Logical Volume
 Extending and Reducing a Volume Group
 Extending a LV and xfs & ext4 FS
 Extend a swap space
Controlling the Boot Process
  Booting Process of a RHEL 8 System
 Selecting a systemd target, rebooting & shutting
 Determine the default target and change the target into running system.
 Selecting a rescue mode at boot time
 Resetting a root password
 Repairing Systemd Boot Issues
 Booting RHEL 8 into Rescue Mode
 Booting RHEL 8 into Emergency Mode
 Enabling the Early Debug Shell
 Repair a File System Issues at boot
Managing Network Security
 Firewall Concepts
 Features and advantages of firewalld
 Pre-defined Zones
 Packet flow via firewalld
 Add, remove services from firewall server - Lab Session
 Add http service to allow access the website - Lab Session
 Port Forwarding - allow access a website running on 12345 port
 masquerading, network address translation
 rich rules
Automating Installation with Kickstart
 Overview Kickstart Server
 Architectural Overview
 Configure dhcp server
 Configure tftp, pxe boot server
 Configure httpd, kick start configuration file
 Configure http repository, start services
 Boot the Client from Network
Network File System
 Overview of NFS
 nfsconf tool
 Accessing Network-Attached Storage
 NFS Share
 Mounting NFS Shares with Automounter
  Automounter Benefits
 Automounter using indirect map
 Direct maps
Introducing Containers
 Introducing Container Technology
 Planning for containers
Improving Command-line Productivity
 Writing Simple Bash Scripts
 Writing Simple Bash Scripts
 Simple Commands in Linux
 Variable, single and double quote, backslash
 Redirection output
 basic knowledge of Cluster and its Architecture
 Basic cluster installation and configuration
 Managing Cluster nodes
 add remove nodes from cluster
Quorum
 Quorum Overview
 Last_Man_Standing
 Auto_tie_breaker
 Last_Man_Standing and Auto_Tie_Breaker Together
 Wait_For_All
 Two_Node
Constraints group and property set
 Constraints group and property set theory
 Constraints group and property set practice
Fencing
 Fencing Theory
 Fencing Configuration
iSCSI target and initiator
 iSCSI target and initiator theory
 iSCSI target and initiator installation and configuration
Multipath
 multi-path theory
  multipath practical
Cluster Resources
 Cluster Resource theory
 Creating and managing resources
 nfs configuration steps in cluster
 nfs installation and configuration
Active Passive environment or ext3, ext4, xfs filesystem environment
 Active Passive environment or ext3, ext4, xfs filesystem environment theory
 creating LVM with attached systemid
 Active Passive nfs installation and configuration
 Active passive Apache configuration steps
 active passive apache installation and configuration