Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration (RH403)
Overview
Configure Red Hat Satellite 6 to deploy and manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems and software at any scale.
Successfully manage large-scale Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® systems with Red Hat Satellite. This lab-based will demonstrate how to manage the software development life cycle of a subscribed host and its configuration, and to provision hosts integrated with software and Ansible configuration management upon deployment.
This course is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat Satellite 6.11.
Who Should Take This Course
Audience
Senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators responsible for the management of multiple servers and hybrid cloud enterprises up to a very large scale.
Prerequisites
- Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification, or equivalent experience
- Candidates are recommended but not required to have familiarity with Red Hat Satellite 6
- For candidates that have not earned an RHCE or equivalent, confirmation of the correct skill set knowledge can be obtained by taking the online skills assessment at http://www.redhat.com/training/skills_assessment/
Why You Should Take This Course
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Verify a Red Hat Satellite 6.11 installation.
- Regulate Red Hat Satellite with organizations, locations, users and roles.
- Manage software with Red Hat Satellite environments and content views.
- Use Red Hat Satellite to configure hosts with Ansible playbooks and roles.
- Provision hosts with integrated software and configuration management.
- Implement Metal-as-a-Service (MaaS) with Satellite discovery and provisioning of unprovisioned hosts.
Course Outline
Red Hat Satellite 6 Administration (RH403)
Plan and deploy Red Hat Satellite
Plan a Red Hat Satellite deployment, installation and initial configuration of Red Hat Satellite Servers.
Manage software life cycles
Create and manage Red Hat software deployment lifecycle environments.
Register hosts
Register and configure your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems to use Red Hat Satellite, and organize those systems into groups for easier management.
Deploy software to hosts
Manage software deployment to registered hosts of your Red Hat Satellite infrastructure and practice managing environment paths, lifecycle environments, and content views.
Deploy custom software
Create, manage and deploy custom software products and repositories.
Deploy Satellite capsule servers
Install and configure Red Hat Satellite Capsule Servers as components of a deployment plan.
Run Remote Execution
Run ad hoc and scheduled tasks on managed hosts with various configuration management tools.
Prepare Network Resources for Host Provisioning
Configure Satellite Server for host provisioning.
Provision Hosts
Provision hosts with templates.
Manage Red Hat Satellite with the API
Integrate Red Hat Satellite functionality with custom scripts or external applications that access the API over HTTP.
Deploy Red Hat Satellite on a Cloud Platform
Plan a Red Hat Satellite deployment on a cloud platform, including managed content hosts.
Maintain Red Hat Satellite Server
Maintain Red Hat Satellite for security, recoverability, and growth.
Comprehensive review
Verify and configure a Red Hat Satellite Server installation and provision content hosts.