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Chapter 1: Understand and Use Essential Tools

This document outlines chapters in a training course that teach system administration skills. Chapter 1 covers using command line tools like SSH, grep, tar and managing files, folders and permissions. Chapter 2 discusses creating simple shell scripts with conditionals and loops. Chapter 3 involves operating systems like booting, shutting down and managing processes. The following chapters cover storage, file systems, system deployment, networking, users/groups, security and containers.

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Chapter 1: Understand and Use Essential Tools

This document outlines chapters in a training course that teach system administration skills. Chapter 1 covers using command line tools like SSH, grep, tar and managing files, folders and permissions. Chapter 2 discusses creating simple shell scripts with conditionals and loops. Chapter 3 involves operating systems like booting, shutting down and managing processes. The following chapters cover storage, file systems, system deployment, networking, users/groups, security and containers.

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Chapter 1: Understand and use essential tools

• Access a shell prompt and issue commands with correct syntax


• Use input-output redirection (>, >>, |, 2>, etc.)
• Use grep and regular expressions to analyze text
• Access remote systems using SSH
• Log in and switch users in multiuser targets
• Archive, compress, unpack, and uncompress files using tar, star,
gzip, and bzip2
• Create and edit text files
• Create, delete, copy, and move files and directories
• Create hard and soft links
• List, set, and change standard ugo/rwx permissions
• Locate, read, and use system documentation including man, info,
and files in /usr/share/doc

Chapter 2: Create simple shell scripts

• Conditionally execute code (use of: if, test, [], etc.)


• Use Looping constructs (for, etc.) to process file, command line
input
• Process script inputs ($1, $2, etc.)
• Processing output of shell commands within a script
• Processing shell command exit codes

Chapter 3: Operate running systems

• Boot, reboot, and shut down a system normally


• Boot systems into different targets manually
• Interrupt the boot process in order to gain access to a system
• Identify CPU/memory intensive processes and kill processes
• Adjust process scheduling
• Manage tuning profiles
• Locate and interpret system log files and journals
• Preserve system journals
• Start, stop, and check the status of network services
• Securely transfer files between systems
Chapter 4: Configure local storage

• List, create, delete partitions on MBR and GPT disks


• Create and remove physical volumes
• Assign physical volumes to volume groups
• Create and delete logical volumes
• Configure systems to mount file systems at boot by universally
unique ID (UUID) or label
• Add new partitions and logical volumes, and swap to a system
non-destructively

Chapter 4: Create and configure file systems

• Create, mount, unmount, and use vfat, ext4, and xfs file systems
• Mount and unmount network file systems using NFS
• Extend existing logical volumes
• Create and configure set-GID directories for collaboration
• Configure disk compression
• Manage layered storage
• Diagnose and correct file permission problems

Chapter 5: Deploy, configure, and maintain systems

• Schedule tasks using at and cron


• Start and stop services and configure services to start
automatically at boot
• Configure systems to boot into a specific target automatically
• Configure time service clients
• Install and update software packages from Red Hat Network, a
remote repository, or from the local file system
• Work with package module streams
• Modify the system bootloader

Chapter 6: Manage basic networking

• Configure IPv4 and IPv6 addresses


• Configure hostname resolution
• Configure network services to start automatically at boot
• Restrict network access using firewall-cmd/firewall
Chapter 7: Manage users and groups

• Create, delete, and modify local user accounts


• Change passwords and adjust password aging for local user
accounts
• Create, delete, and modify local groups and group memberships
• Configure superuser access

Chapter 8: Manage security

• Configure firewall settings using firewall-cmd/firewalld


• Create and use file access control lists
• Configure key-based authentication for SSH
• Set enforcing and permissive modes for SELinux
• List and identify SELinux file and process context
• Restore default file contexts
• Use boolean settings to modify system SELinux settings
• Diagnose and address routine SELinux policy violations

Chapter 9: Manage containers

• Find and retrieve container images from a remote registry


• Inspect container images
• Perform container management using commands such as
podman and skopeo
• Perform basic container management such as running, starting,
stopping, and listing running containers
• Run a service inside a container
• Configure a container to start automatically as a systemd service
• Attach persistent storage to a container

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