| Course Description |
RH401 is a four-day intensive hands-on lab course in skills and methods critical to large-scale deployment and management of mission-critical Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems, including failover and load-balancing, CVS for system administrators, RPM rebuilding, and performance tuning for specific applications. |
| Prerequisites |
RH253 at a minimum, RHCE certification preferred, or comparable skills and knowledge. All prospective course participants without RHCE certification are encouraged to verify skills with Red Hat’s free online pre-assessment tests. Note: Persons should not enroll in RH401 without meeting the above prerequisites.
All prospective course participants who do not
possess RHCE certification are strongly advised to contact Red Hat Global Learning Services for a skills assessment when they enroll. |
| Goal |
| RH401 trains senior system administrators to manage large numbers of Enterprise Linux servers in a variety of roles, and/or manage them for mission-critical
applications that require failover and load-balancing. Further, RH401 is benchmarked on expert-level
competencies in managing operating systems for enterprise roles—the course teaches how to
implement and manage enterprise Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments efficiently and effectively in ways that make the entire enterprise deployment manageable
by a team. |
| Audience |
Senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system
administrators and other IT professionals
working in enterprise environments and
mission-critical systems. |
| Course Objectives |
- Configuration management using CVS
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Construction of custom RPM packages
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Software management with Red Hat Network Proxy Server
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Assembling a host provisioning and
management system
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Performance tuning and analysis
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High-availability network load-balancing
clusters
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High-availability application
failover clusters
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