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All Courses > RH401 > Details

# RH401 Red Hat Enterprise Deployment and Systems Management Course Outline

## Course Outline

Unit 1 - Essential System Management

- Goals of Enterprise system management
- Standardization, centralization, and scalability
- Provisioning and automation

Unit 2 - Installing a Red Hat Network Satellite Server

- Introduction to RHN Satellite - features, prerequisites
- Installing Satellite Server software
- Understanding software channels and entitlements
- Importing channel content into a Satellite Server

Unit 3 - Red Hat Network Organization

- Organization management and trust relationships
- Managing user accounts
- Assigning user roles (security)
- Managing system groups

Unit 4 - Managing Changes with Revision Control

- Introducing revision control concepts
- Basic Subversion repository administration
- Using Subversion to manage revisions

Unit 5 - Red Hat Network Client Configuration

- Secure communication with SSL
- Red Hat Network registration
- Creating and using activation keys
- Registration automation with bootstrap.sh
- Troubleshooting RHN registration

Unit 6 - Red Hat Network Software Management

- Software channel relationships
- Cloning existing software channels
- Managing custom software channels
- Notifying clients of changes: managing errata

Unit 7 - Building RPMs

- Building open source software
- Using RPM macros
- Writing custom spec files
- Using rpmbuild to create RPMs
- Signing packages for security

Unit 8 - RHN Application Programmer Interface

- Uses for Red Hat Network API
- Basic RHN API program structure
- Sample programs

Unit 9 - Configuration File Management with Red Hat Network

- Managing configuration channels
- Configuration file macros
- Configuration file management using command-line tools

Unit 10 - Provisioning with Kickstart

- Anaconda kickstart options
- Building a provisioning environment
- Using Cobbler for provisioning

Unit 11 - Virtual Machine Management

- Virtual host/virtual platform entitlements
- Controlling Xen guests using RHN
- Red Hat Network management of Xen virtual machines

Unit 12 - RHN Satellite Server Administration

- High-availability options
- Embedded database management
- Certificate management
- Changing from disconnected to connected operation
- Inter-satellite synchronization (ISS)
- Exporting software channels
- Troubleshooting

Unit 13 - Red Hat Network Proxy Server

- RHN proxy server installation
- Configuring a client to use a RHN proxy server
- Managing software with RHN package manager

### Summary

4 days

Start Time: 9am EST
End Time: 5pm EST

10 training units

$2,898

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For questions please contact 866-626-2994.

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