Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management

Training in Deployment and System management (RH401)

There is a major difference between a home cook, who only cooks for a family, and a caterer, who has a skill to cook for a few hundred people at a time. If the skill level of both the cooks is same, then it is obvious that the caterer has more job opportunities and income as compared to the home cook. The course on Red Hat Enterprise Deployment management training helps you to improve your skills to the proverbial caterer. The simplest definition and use of this course is to make you proficient enough to be able to deploy Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems on a large scale. The Deployment and Systems management course will help you in the installation and configuration of Red Hat Satellite servers. It explores the concept and methods required for Linux system. The course will also teach the benefits of building your very own RPM packages and also teaches you to manage the changes in various subversions. Various mode of training like classroom teaching, virtual classroom and on-site training makes this course more popular and unique.

The course helps you to understand the very essentials of large scale systems management, and also educates you in the details of managing such a system effectively. Red Hat Satellite helps you to link the many workspaces in an office to a central virtual command centre, and this course on deployment management will teach on the installation of Red Hat satellite. The course also covers extensively on various topics related to the management of these satellites with respect to the needs of the clients and also with respect to the updates in the systems of clients remotely. This will help any system administrator to save considerable amount of time, as he no longer needs to update a software individually in each workspace.

The course further provides you information on building of RPM packages which help you to deploy programs and files to the client systems. The need for the Red Hat satellite cannot really be understated, and the deployment and systems administration training helps you understand this need and also educate you to utilize these skills in a practical environment.

The course in only applicable to senior level system administrators, who have the experience in the field, or for students who have already completed at least the RHCE courses and server Hardening courses. A student who has not earned RHCE certification can check the prerequisite set of skills by attempting the online skills assessment. The Deployment and Systems management course also helps you prepare for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management (EX401) exam.

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Outline for this course

Essential system management

Set high-level goals for effective system management.

Install Red Hat Satellite

Install a Red Hat Satellite server, and populate it with software channel content.

Red Hat Satellite organization

Create and manage Red Hat Satellite organizations, users, and system groups.

Use Subversion to manage changes

Initialize and configure a Subversion repository, start a new Subversion project, and manage revisions using Subversion.

Red Hat Satellite client configuration

Register client machines with Red Hat Satellite both interactively and in automated ways.

Red Hat Satellite software management

Configure Red Hat Satellite with custom and cloned software channels to manage software updates on client systems.

Build RPM packages

Create RPM packages for use with Red Hat Satellite to enable the deployment of programs and files on client systems.

Configuration file management with Satellite

Use Red Hat Satellite to deploy individual configuration files to client systems.

Provision with Red Hat Satellite

Use Red Hat Satellite to provision Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems from bare metal.

Red Hat Satellite administration

Perform Red Hat Satellite maintenance functions including embedded database management, activate Satellite with a new entitlement certificate, and export custom software channel content.

Red Hat Satellite API and reports

Use the Red Hat Satellite API to produce simple reports and perform basic administrative tasks.

Red Hat Satellite virtual machine management

Manage Red Hat Satellite entitlements and create kickstart profiles that will provision virtualization hosts and virtualized guests.

Comprehensive review

Review course material and deploy a Red Hat Satellite server.

Description

Students will learn how to install and use Red Hat Satellite server with enhanced entitlements reporting to deploy and manage systems. By the end of this course, students will have built their own RPM packages and will have used Subversion to manage changes to files. This course can also help you prepare for the Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management (EX401) exam.This version of the course includes the exam.

Course content summary

Audience and prerequisites

Audience for this course

After the course

Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration (RH403) course
Explores the concepts and methods necessary for successful large-scale management of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems using Red Hat Satellite 6.

Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management (EX401) exam
Hands-on, performance-based, 4-hour exam.

Red Hat Enterprise System Monitoring and Performance Tuning (RH442) course
Gives senior administrators the methodology and experience with performance tuning and capacity planning for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This course prepares you for these credentials

Red Hat Certificate of Expertise in Deployment and Systems Management
Demonstrate your knowledge and ability needed to manage large installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems using Red Hat Satellite.