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• System service • Web services
access controls • Electronic mail services
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access controls
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the new RHCE Boot • Add filesystems, protect data with software RAID and LVM
Camp on page 24. • Define users, groups, and access control lists
• Customize and automate installation and virtualization
• Configure network settings and access controls
• Install, secure, and configure infrastructure, DNS, web,
file sharing, and mail services
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RH303
Earn a Audience
Certificate Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for
of Expertise managing enterprise servers who are interested in learning
By passing the how to manage large numbers of servers or virtual machines
EX318 exam for using Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization.
current RHCEs.
Prerequisites
On the path towards • Red Hat Linux System Administration (RH133) or equivalent
RHCDS, RHCA experience with Linux is beneficial but not required
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earn more on page 11 • System administration experience on Windows operating
systems is beneficial, but is not necessary for this course
Course content
SCHEDULE
• Overview of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
CA Anaheim 9/27
Fremont 10/25 • Install and manage Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
Los Angeles 11/15 hypervisor nodes
Mountain • Install, use, and maintain the web-based Red Hat
6/7, 8/2
View Enterprise Virtualization management console
San
12/6 • Create and manage virtual images and NFS or iSCSI
Francisco
CO Denver 8/30 storage pools that store guest images and snapshots
GA Atlanta 10/11 • Deploy, manage, and support Red Hat Enterprise
IL Chicago 8/9, 11/29 Virtualization, including VDSM, log collector, and
MA Boston 6/28, 9/13 upgrades to your system
MD Columbia 7/19, 10/18
• Deep dive into advanced virtualization capabilities
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NC Raleigh
11/1
NY New York 9/20, 11/8
TX Austin 7/26
Dallas 7/12, 10/4
Tysons 6/14, 8/16,
VA
Corner (DC) 12/13
CANAdA LOCATION TRAINING TIME COST TUs
ON Toronto 11/22
Classroom* 4 days $2,898 10
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and view complete schedules
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RH142
Linux Troubleshooting
Techniques and Tools
Techniques for troubleshooting a Linux system
Audience
Linux system administrators with RHCT or RHCE experi-
SCHEDULE ence tasked with troubleshooting system, network, and
CA Anaheim 8/16, 12/6 security issues.
Mountain
7/5 Prerequisites
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11/1
Francisco
• Knowledge of installation, service management, basic
CO Denver 6/28, 10/11
system monitoring, and file system management
FL Orlando 7/19
GA Atlanta 11/1 • Basic understanding of troubleshooting, including
IL Chicago 10/18 managing log files
MA Boston 7/5, 10/4 • Understanding the use of hardware probing tools
MD Columbia 7/6, 9/27 such as ethtool and lspci is helpful but not required
MN Minnetonka 8/2
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Raleigh 7/26 • Introduction to troubleshooting techniques
NJ Edison 11/18
• Troubleshooting boot issues: working with advanced
8/23,
NY New York GRUB features, rescue and GRUB CDs, advanced ext2/
10/25
ext3 filesystem repair, rescuing RAID and LVM volumes
OH Columbus 10/25
TX Austin 7/19 • Troubleshooting hardware: listing, testing, and
Dallas 8/23, 11/29 analyzing devices
VA Richmond 7/26 • Troubleshooting applications: diagnosing performance
Tysons problems and investigating application/OS interactions
6/28
Corner (DC)
• Troubleshooting the network: configuration, testing, and
WA Seattle 11/8
diagnosing problems with basic and advanced configurations
WI Milwaukee 6/28
CANADA
• Security: working effectively with (and not against) security
tools, including SELinux, SSL, and authentication
BC Vancouver 9/20
ON Ottawa 6/14, 9/27 • Making the most of Red Hat support resources
Toronto 10/25
QC Montreal 12/13
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classroom
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Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center, Boston, MA
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June 21–22, 2010
(2 days prior to Red Hat Summit and JBoss World)
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RHS333
Red Hat Enterprise Security:
Network Services
Security for the most commonly deployed services
Earn a Audience
certificate • Experienced Linux system administrators responsible for
of expertise managing shared storage across one or more Linux systems
By passing the • Experienced Linux system administrators responsible
EX436 expertise for maintaining a high availability service using cluster
exam. technology
Course content
SCHEDULE
• Review of Red Hat • Cluster technology
CA Los Angeles 8/23
Enterprise Clustering and suite overview
Mountain
10/18 and storage management
View • Quorum and the
San technologies cluster manager
7/26, 8/30
Francisco • Linux dynamic device • Fencing and failover
CO Denver 9/13, 12/6 management
FL Orlando 6/28 • Quorum disk
• iSCSI
GA Atlanta 8/9, 11/15 • Service manager
6/21, 8/16, • Advanced software RAID
IL Chicago • Global File System (GFS)
11/8 • Device mapper and
MA Boston 6/14, 8/2 multipathing
MD Columbia 7/26, 11/29
NC Raleigh 6/7, 10/25
NJ Edison 10/4
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11/15
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Canada Guaranteed to Run courses are indicated in dark red.
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• Elements of monitoring and tuning
• Simple network monitoring (SNMP) SCHEDULE
• Graphical reporting CA Anaheim 8/9
• Kernel-level profiling Los Angeles 6/7
San
• Queuing theory 8/23, 11/29
Francisco
• Compensating for physical disk characteristics GA Atlanta 9/27
• Reducing disk visit count IL Chicago 7/19, 10/18
MA Boston 6/28, 8/16
• Processes and the scheduler MD Columbia 6/14, 8/30
• Kernel timing and process latency NC Raleigh 7/12, 10/11
• Memory addressing and allocation NY New York 7/26
TX Austin 9/27
• Memory caches
Dallas 12/13
• Memory reclamation Tysons
VA Corner 8/2, 11/1
• Essential network tuning
(DC)
CANADA
ON Toronto 8/9, 10/4
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+ + + + + + + + • Program arguments
+ + + + + + + + • Time functions
+ + + + + + + + • Process control
+ + + + + + + + • Debugging
+ + + + + + + + • Memory operations
+ + + + + + + + • Inter-process communications
+ + + + + + + + • Signals
+ + + + + + + + • POSIX threads
+ + + + + + + + • File operations
+ + + + + + + + • Network communications
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+ + + + + + + + Classroom 5 days $2,898 10
+ + + + + + + + Onsite Call 1–866–626–2994
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux Kernel Internals (RHD361) is a hands- CA Los Angeles 8/16
on course providing experienced developers an intensive, low- San
10/18
level examination of the Linux kernel architecture, including Francisco
process scheduling, memory management, and I/O. Topics cov- 6/14, 7/19,
MA Boston
12/6
ered are useful for understanding more advanced performance
MD Columbia 8/2, 11/1
tuning concepts, like those presented in Red Hat Enterprise
NC Raleigh 9/13
System Monitoring and Performance Tuning (RH442). Partici-
pants will also gain an understanding of how device drivers
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Experienced developers who want to gain a complete under-
standing of the Linux architecture, including the newest kernels.
Prerequisites Recommended
• Familiarity with basic tools, such as vi, Emacs, next course
and file utilities Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Knowledge of systems programming in a UNIX or Linux Kernel Device Drivers
environment (register-level hardware programming knowl- (RHD362)
edge is recommended but not required)
• Some previous experience running Linux, compiling and
installing kernels + + + + + + + +
Course content
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• User and kernel mode • Scheduling
+ + + + + + + +
• Kernel compilation • Real time and Red Hat
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• Kernel initialization Enterprise Linux RT + + + + + + + +
• Kernel modules • Kernel threads + + + + + + + +
• Introduction to • Timing + + + + + + + +
device drivers • Interrupts + + + + + + + +
• Kernel API overview • Synchronization + + + + + + + +
• Kernel debugging • Memory + + + + + + + +
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