Rh401: Red Hat Enterprise Deployment And Systems Management; Course Description; Prerequisites; Goal - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

Chapter 58.
RH401: Red Hat Enterprise Deployment
and systems management
Manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux deployments.
http://www.redhat.com/training/architect/courses/rh401.html

58.1. 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.

58.1.1. 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.

58.1.2. 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.

58.1.3. Audience

Senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators and other IT professionals working in
enterprise environments and mission-critical systems.

58.1.4. Course Objectives

1. Configuration management using CVS
2. Construction of custom RPM packages
3. Software management with Red Hat Network Proxy Server
4. Assembling a host provisioning and management system
5. Performance tuning and analysis
6. High-availability network load-balancing clusters
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