Hands-on Guide to the Red Hat Exams: RHSCA and RHCE Cert Guide and Lab Manual

Chapter 9. System Logging, Monitoring, and Automation

This chapter covers the following subjects:

• Working with Syslog—This section covers logging, both local and centralized.

• Monitoring System Performance—This section looks at how to monitor system performance.

• Automation with cron and at—This section covers system automation via scheduled and single-instance jobs.

The following RHCSA exam objectives are covered:

• Identify CPU and memory-intensive processes, adjust process priority with renice, and kill processes

• Locate and interpret system log files

• Schedule tasks using cron

The following RHCE exam objectives are covered:

• Produce and deliver reports on system utilization (processor, memory, disk, and network)

• Use shell scripting ...