RH242 Linux Troubleshooting Techniques and Tools

    

Summary:
Troubleshooting is both an art and a science, an instinct (typically informed by experience) and a technique. In RH242 Linux Troubleshooting Techniques and Tools, participants will learn techniques for troubleshooting a Linux system and will learn to use a variety of troubleshooting tools available on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

This course is a four-day, heavily lab-oriented class designed to help the student learn or improve troubleshooting skills. Students will gain troubleshooting experience by debugging live, virtualized systems.

Duration:
4 Days/Lecture & Lab

Audience:
This class is designed for Linux system administrators who understand how to install and configure a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system and who wish to deepen their understanding of troubleshooting on Linux.

Topics:

• Introduction to troubleshooting techniques, including being prepared
• Troubleshooting hardware, including listing, testing, and analyzing devices
• Troubleshooting applications, including diagnosing performance problems and investigating application and OS interactions
• Troubleshooting disks and file systems, including LVM, LUKS, ext3/4, and unauthorized changes
• Troubleshooting the network, including configuring, testing, and diagnosing problems with basic and advanced configurations
• Security, including working effectively with (and not against) security tools like SELinux, authentication, and firewall
• Making the most of Red Hat support resources

Prerequisites:
Students should take Red Hat System Administration I and II or RHCSA Rapid Track Course
RHCSA certification holder or equivalent experience, have system administration knowledge under Red Hat Enterprise Linux and experience using hardware probing tools, such as ethtool and lspci)

Last Update: May 22, 2012