RH403 – Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration
Learn how to install Red Hat Satellite 6
Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration (RH403) is a lab-based course that explores the concepts and methods necessary for successful large-scale management of Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® systems. Course participants will learn how to install Red Hat Satellite 6 on a server and populate it with software packages.
DESCRIPTION
Course overview
Students 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.
Course content summary
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Install Red Hat Satellite 6.
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Red Hat Network organizations, locations, users and roles.
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Manage software with Red Hat Satellite environments and content views.
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Create custom RPM packages.
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Use Red Hat Satellite to configure hosts with Puppet.
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Provision hosts with integrated software and configuration management.
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Implement Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) with Satellite discovery and provisioning of unprovisioned hosts.
AUDIENCE & PREREQUISITES
Audience for this course
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Senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators responsible for the management of multiple servers
Prerequisites for this course
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Recommend having a certification or equivalent experience
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Have Red Hat Satellite 5 experience
OUTLINE
Red Hat Satellite 6 installation
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Install Red Hat Satellite 6 on a server and populate it with Red Hat Enterprise Linux software content.
Manage users and hosts across organizations and locations
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Effectively control user access for Red Hat Satellite administration.
Red Hat Satellite client registration
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Register hosts to a Red Hat Satellite server, both interactively and automatically.
Manage software deployment through the software development life cycle
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Control which packages hosts can install and which updates are propagated to hosts and evaluate host deviations from corporate standards.
Build RPM packages
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Create RPM packages for deployment of programs and files on client systems.
Deploy custom software using Red Hat Satellite
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Incorporate non-Red Hat software packages into a Red Hat Satellite framework.
Manage system configurations with Puppet
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Create and populate a Puppet repository within a Red Hat Satellite framework.
Standardize system configurations with Red Hat Satellite 6
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Configure hosts using Puppet.
Deploy hosts with Satellite server
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Deploy and provision hosts using PXE.
Configuration of Satellite server for enterprise system deployment
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Configure host provisioning for integration with software and configuration management and discover unprovisioned host and provision-discovered hosts.
AFTER THE COURSE
Recommended next exam or course
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Red Hat Certified Specialist in Deployment and Systems Management (EX403) exam
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Configuration Management with Puppet (DO405)
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Red Hat Certified Specialist in Deployment and Systems Management exam (EX405)
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Configuration Management with Puppet with exam (DO406)
OUTCOMES
Impact of this training
Impact on the organization
As a result of attending this course, students should be able to leverage the software development life-cycle process to plan, create, test, and provision host systems within an organization.
Students should be able to demonstrate the following skills:
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Installation of Red Hat Satellite 6
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Software life-cycle management of software used to provision and maintain configured hosts within a controlled production environment
Duration: 4 Days