Overview
- RASM Explained: Reliability, Availability, Scalability, and Manageability.
- Technologies and methodologies for achieving the goals of RASM
Red Hat Linux versus Red Hat Linux Advanced Server
- Support, life cycle, and other product differences Feature set differences
- How Red Hat Linux Advanced Server is distributed
Configuration management using CVS
- Basics of CVS for system administrators
- Implementing local and remote repositories
- Security and CVS
- Using CVS to track, log, and reverse configuration changes
- Distributing CVS-managed configuration files
Advanced RPM for system administrators
- Why and when to rebuild
- Support and compatibility considerations
- The contents of an RPM package
- The spec file
- Important spec file directives
- rpm build commands
- Handing
- Buildrooting, .rpmmacros, and other good practices
Red Hat Network in the Enterprise
- Managing systems online
- Using RHN to compare installations on systems
- Updating similar machines with System Group
- Assigning roles with Multiple Administrators
- Entitlement of clients at install-time with Kickstart
- Features, benefits, and requirements of Proxy Server
- Features, benefits, and requirements of Satellite Server
Kickstart, cvs, RPM, and Red Hat Network
- Using Kickstart in conjunction with other tools
Introduction to Advanced Server
- Kernel-level features
- Netdump
Failover using Red Hat Linux Advanced Server
- High Availability system components
- Implementing a two-node failover cluster
- Implementing Samba in a failover configuration
- Implementing NFS in a failover configuration
- Implementing a custom service in a failover configuration
- Active versus Passive configurations
- Using the high availability monitoring utilities
- Storing and reproducing failover configurations
Load-balancing using Red Hat Linux Advanced Server
- Implementing a two-node load-balancing pair using piranha
- Security considerations when using piranha
- Integrating failover, load-balancing, and other systems
Runtime Performance Tuning
- Basic principles and methodology
- Analysis of existing performance and requirements
- Understanding CPU performance
- Understanding and tuning disk performance
- Understanding and tuning memory usage
- Understanding and tuning network performance
- Controlling system resources
Bringing it All Together
- Combining all the above technologies covered in order to build a reliable, available, scalable, and manageable system providing various services