Will there be an update to rhel7 for RH413 Server Hardening ?
Hello,
RH413 Server Hardening has been available on rhel6 only for quite some time now.
Will there be an updated version of this course for rhel7 ?
Rob Verduijn
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Update: not only it still isn't updated from version 6, the systems are also unregistered, making them practically useless. Doesn't anyone from the team care? People are paying money for this.
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Aleksey,
Except for RH403 Red Hat Satellite, we run all our lab systems as unregistered. The lab environments are designed to be self-contained and provide everything you need within the environment, including updates. I very carefully selected errata for RH413 such that the lab instructions and examples of using yum to select updates based on things like CVE number would work the same as if the machine was registered, at the time, with Red Hat Network.
As for an update, I'm sure it will be updated sometime, however, I no longer work on the curriculum development team. In RHLS-Basic we have a beta feature called Early Access, which provides access to classes that are under active development. We should have the same feature exposed in standard in early/mid December when it leaves Beta status. That'll be where you can see what the curriculum team is working on when they have some of it in a state that it's ready for some level of customer review/input.
-Scott
Yes, people are paying money for this subscription and the course is old and there is no news for new course.
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Yash,
Indeed, people pay money for the subscription. And in the last month we've:
*) Updated RH318 for the updated Red Hat Virtualization version 4.1
*) Released a new course, JB183, which is a class to provide foundational knowledge for writing and releasing apps with the JBoss EAP server.
*) Created a new 300 level class (DO380) on administration with OpenShift Enterprise
*) We also completed a typo-level revision of the RH124, RH134, RH199 courses
*) I put together a lab environment update to the entire RHCE-Track (RH124, RH134, RH199, RH254, RH300) which resolves an odd bug where the dhcp service running on the classroom machine becomes inoperable.
*) Oh, the Early Access catalog left beta and is now available in all subscription levels.
*) Lets not forget we also had a week of holiday time.
I think focusing on this one, specific course and describing it as an issue for the subscription in it's entirety is a bit hyperbolic, or at least disingenuous.
There are a TON of customers running RHEL6. A lot of the concepts and content in this course is directly applicable to RHEL7. If customers require more immediate information on RHEL7, I would direct you to the RHEL 7 DISA STIG, which I used when selecting a lot of the topics for this class when I authored it on RHEL6. The STIG came out over the summer, and until that happened, this class, unfortunately, was not a candidate for updating. Now that we have the topical, supporting content and direction from DISA, it's awaiting it's turn in the curriculum development pipeline. When we start working on it, I anticipate it will show up in the Early Access catalog, as I mentioned in my earlier comment.
-Scott
You added new courses but remove another. I pay for list of courses which currently I can't access.
e.g https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training/jb325-red-hat-jboss-enterprise-application-development-ii
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Development I (JB225) Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Development II (JB325) Red Hat JBoss A-MQ Development and Deployment (JB437)
Hi Scott
I see you mention a new 300 level class (DO380). Are there any real difference between the levels? If so, what are they?
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Sakie,
In general, I'd say the level indicates the technical difficulty of the content in the course. For a lot of our courses, there is a progression, for example, DO180, DO280, DO380 are all about OpenShift, Containers, and administration, but without the foundational knowledge from DO180, it would be difficult to pick up the tasks and concepts in DO280, and without the first two classes, DO380 would be even that much more difficult to complete.
Let me try an alternative example. Take RH442 Red Hat Enterprise Performance Tuning, in it we talk about tuned profiles. tuned profiles run commands, set settings, and use a variety of other subsystems in the OS, and tuned the daemon is managed by a systemd service. Could you learn and understand how this service works and what it does without understanding some of the OS-level stuff that it does? Could you apply management and changes with this service if you didn't understand how systemctl and systemd works? We cover systemd in the RH124 and RH134 courses, or their rapid-track condensed form of RH199.
Or the course on which this thread is based, RH413, in it we talk about IdM installation and setup. We cover configuring clients to work with IdM in the RH134 or RH199. We also do it in this class, but its coverage is much more transactional rather than conceptual and explanation.
I hope that provides some clarity.
-Scott
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