Course description

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.

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

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

• Installation of Red Hat Satellite 6
• Red Hat Network organizations, locations, users and roles.
• Managing software with Red Hat Satellite environments and content views.
• Creating custom RPM (Red Hat Package Manager) packages.
• Using Red Hat Satellite to configuration hosts with Puppet.
• Provision hosts with integrated software and configuration management.
• Implementing Metal as a Service (MaaS) with Satellite discovery and provisioning of un provisioned hosts.

Audience for this course

• Senior Red Hat Enterprise Linux system administrators responsible for the management of multiple servers

Prerequisites for this course

• Recommend having a Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification or equivalent experience
• Have Red Hat Satellite 5 experience

Impact on the organization

This course is intended to develop the skills needed to more efficiently design, configure, test, and deploy computer systems within an organization. Doing so will reduce unexpected downtime of systems and facilitate more efficient deployment of new systems, applications and features.

Red Hat has created this course in a way intended to benefit our customers, but each company and infrastructure is unique, and actual results or benefits may vary.

Impact on the individual

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:

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

Recommended next exam or course

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Deployment and Systems Management (EX403) exam

Demonstrate your knowledge, skills, and ability to use Red Hat products, including Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® and Red Hat Satellite Server, to deploy and manage systems in an efficient, scalable, replicable, and reliable manner.

Configuration Management with Puppet (DO405)

Learn to configure Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts in DevOps environment using Puppet.

Red Hat Certified Specialist in Deployment and Systems Management exam (EX405)

Demonstrate your skills, knowledge, and abilities to automate configuration management with Puppet and Red Hat Enterprise Satellite 6.

Configuration Management with Puppet with exam (DO406)

Learn to configure Red Hat Enterprise Linux hosts in DevOps environment using Puppet and take the accompanying exam to demonstrate your skills and knowledge to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems using Puppet and Red Hat Satellite Server.