Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration (RH403)

Retail Price: $4,400.00

4 Days

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In this lab-based course, you will explore the concepts and methods necessary for successful large-scale management of your Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® systems. You will learn how to install Red Hat Satellite 6 on a server and populate it with software packages.

During the course, you will use Red Hat Satellite to manage the software development life cycle of a subscribed host and its configuration, and learn how to provision hosts integrated with software and Puppet configuration management upon deployment.

This course is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Satellite 6.

Learning Objectives

Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:

  • Installation of Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Software life-cycle management of software used to provision and maintain configured hosts within a controlled production environment

Course Details

Course Outline

1 - Red Hat Satellite 6 installation
  • Install Red Hat Satellite 6 on a server and populate it with Red Hat Enterprise Linux software content.
    • 2 - Manage users and hosts across organizations and locations
  • Effectively control user access for Red Hat Satellite administration.
    • 3 - Red Hat Satellite client registration
  • Register hosts to a Red Hat Satellite server, both interactively and automatically.
    • 4 - Manage software deployment through the software development life cycle
  • Control which packages hosts can install and which updates are propagated to hosts and evaluate host deviations from corporate standards.
    • 5 - Build RPM packages
  • Create RPM packages for deployment of programs and files on client systems.
    • 6 - Deploy custom software using Red Hat Satellite
  • Incorporate non-Red Hat software packages into a Red Hat Satellite framework.
    • 7 - Manage system configurations with Puppet
  • Create and populate a Puppet repository within a Red Hat Satellite framework.
    • 8 - Standardize system configurations with Red Hat Satellite 6
  • Configure hosts using Puppet.
    • 9 - Deploy hosts with Satellite server
  • Deploy and provision hosts using PXE.
    • 10 - Configuration of Satellite server for enterprise system deployment
  • Configure host provisioning for integration with software and configuration management and discover unprovisioned host and provision-discovered hosts.

    • Actual course outline may vary depending on offering center. Contact your sales representative for more information.