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Red Hat Services Management and Automation Red Hat Learning Subscription Course
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Introduction
Red Hat Services Management and Automation (RH358) is designed for IT professionals with some experience managing Linux systems, who want to learn more about how to manage and deploy network services that are included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You will learn how to manually install, configure, and manage basic configurations of these services, and then use Ansible to automate your work in a scalable, repeatable manner.
This course is based on Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4. The Red Hat Certified Specialist in Services Management and Automation exam (EX358) is included in this bundle offering.
Audience Profile
Linux system administrators, platform engineers, developers, and other IT professionals with some Ansible experience who are interested in learning how to manage and automate the deployment, configuration, and operation of key network services included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Pre-requisites
- RHCSA-level skills with Linux system administration
- Working knowledge of Ansible (RH294 or equivalent skills and experience)
Course Objectives
In this course, you will learn the system administration skills needed to set up and provide key network services that are frequently used by servers and their applications in enterprise data centers. You will gain an understanding of how to manually manage these services, and you will also prepare Ansible Playbooks to automate manual configuration tasks and perform them at scale.
Course Content
| Session 1: Managing Network Services |
| Discuss and review key tools and skills needed to manage network services. |
| Session 2: Configuring Link Aggregation |
| Configure and troubleshoot advanced network interface functionality, including network bonds. |
| Session 3: Managing DNS and DNS Servers |
| Explain the operation of the Domain Name System (DNS), troubleshoot DNS issues, and configure name servers that are caching-only or that are authoritative for a DNS zone. |
| Session 4: Managing DHCP and IP Address Assignment |
| Explain and configure services that automatically assign IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, including DHCP, DHCPv6, and SLAAC. |
| Session 5: Managing Printers and Printing Files |
| Configure systems to print to network printers that support the IPP Everywhere protocol and manage existing print queues on Linux systems. |
| Session 6: Configuring Email Transmission |
| Discuss how mail servers operate and configure a server to use system tools and Postfix to send email messages through an outbound mail relay. |
| Session 7: Configuring MariaDB SQL Databases |
| Discuss the basic operation of SQL-based relational databases, perform basic SQL queries for troubleshooting, and be able to set up a simple MariaDB database service. |
| Session 8: Configuring Web Servers |
| Provide web content from Apache HTTP Server or Nginx web servers and configure them with virtual hosts and TLS-based encryption. |
| Session 9: Providing File-based Network Storage |
| Provide file-based network-attached storage to clients by using the NFS or SMB protocol. |
| Session 10: Accessing Block-based Network Storage |
| Configure iSCSI initiators on your servers to access block-based storage devices provided by network storage arrays or Ceph storage clusters. |
Associated Certifications and Exam
The performance-based Red Hat Certified Specialist in Services Management and Automation exam (EX358) tests your knowledge in configuring and managing standard Linux services as well as automating the configuration of services. The skills tested in this exam are the foundation for system administration across all Red Hat® products.
This exam is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 and Ansible Automation Platform 2.4.
Audience for this exam
- System administrators responsible for managing large enterprise environments
- System administrators responsible for managing network services
- Red Hat Certified Engineers interested in becoming aRed Hat Certified Architect (RHCA)
Prerequisites for this exam
- Be a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE)or Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA), or have comparable work experience and skills
Upon completion of courses within a Red Hat Learning Subscription (RHLS), Red Hat issues digital badges and certificates of attendance. These are recognized as official proof of completion.
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