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RHEL and Red Hat administration guides — subscription manager, dnf/yum, SELinux, and enterprise Linux configuration.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is the commercial standard for regulated and large-scale Linux deployments, with subscription management, long support cycles, and vendor-backed security updates.

Guides here cover subscription-manager, kickstart and image builds, clustering, SELinux, and day-two operations on supported RHEL releases.

Browse tutorials when you need production-grade steps that assume Red Hat tooling, support contracts, or compliance requirements.

For free rebuilds with the same package stack, see Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux; for upstream previews, see Fedora.

151 articles

Red Hat Enterprise Linux tutorials illustration with subscription manager, kickstart, and SELinux
system-administration

How to enable SSH access & configure network in rescue mode (CentOS/RHEL

Steps to enable SSH access in linux rescue mode and configure network in rescue mode in RHEL/CentOS 7/8 with example transfer sosreport file inst.sshd=1

Deepak Prasad4 min read
storage

Configure LUKS Network Bound Disk Encryption with clevis & tang server

Configure Network Bound Disk Encryption (NBDE) based LUKS Disk Encryption using Clevis and tang Server in CentOS/RHEL 7/8 Linux Boot without password clevis key

Deepak Prasad9 min read
linux

Fix 'there are no enabled repos' & create local repository in RHEL 7 & 8;

Create local repository using yum and dnf in RHEL 7 and 8 Fix there are no enabled repos Perform yum install without subscription. Create Offline yum repo Linux

Deepak Prasad10 min read
security

How to check security updates list & perform linux patch management RHEL

Perform Linux patch management in RHEL 6/7/8 Linux in LIVE production environment. Identify vulnerabilities list and security updates list then apply patch

Deepak Prasad11 min read
linux

Solved: Failed to restart network.service: Unit network.service not found in RHEL 8

Network scripts are deprecated in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and they are no longer provided by default. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, to run the ifup and the ifdown scripts, NetworkManager must be running. By default …

Deepak Prasad3 min read
linux

Create Stratis File System (thin provision) with examples (CentOS/RHEL 8)

Stratis Architecture, Steps to create stratis file system with thin provision, create stratis pool, mounting stratis file system on rhel 8 linux with examples

Deepak Prasad10 min read
linux

Solved: vncserver service failed a configured resource limit was exceeded

vncserver service failed because a configured resource limit was exceeded tigervnc on RHEL 7, remove temporary files from under /tmp and /tmp/.X11-unix/.

Deepak Prasad4 min read
linux

How to configure bridged network in virt-manager (CentOS / RHEL 7)

Steps to configure bridged network in virt-manager. Virtual Machine Manager provides a graphical tool for administering virtual machines for KVM, Xen etc

Deepak Prasad3 min read
networking

How to create or configure NIC Teaming using nmcli (CentOS / RHEL 7/8)

Learn to configure NIC teaming on CentOS/RHEL 7 Linux node. RHEL 7 implements network teaming with a small kernel driver and a user-space daemon, teamd.

Deepak Prasad7 min read
linux

How to download entire repository from CentOS /RHEL 7/8 for offline use?

To download entire repository from CentOS / RHEL 7 you will need one time access to Internet. Next you can sync the online repository to your local system

Deepak Prasad6 min read
linux

How to download rpm package and all dependencies (RHEL / CentOS 7)

Download rpm package and all dependencies in CentOS / RHEL 7 using yumdownloader or repotrack. You can also use repoquery with yumdownloader to download rpm

Deepak Prasad5 min read
linux

How to protect GRUB2 from booting kernel without password in Linux

Learn to set password to protect grub2 from booting a kernel without password. in rhel 7.To set password and protect grub2 remove unrestricted in menuentry

Deepak Prasad3 min read
linux

How to exit full screen mode in qemu virt-manager ( RHEL / CentOS 7)

How to exit full screen mode in qemu virt-manager for kvm hosts or get out of fullscreen. This article is validated on RHEL / CentOS 7 Linux on vnc viewer.

Deepak Prasad2 min read
linux

Understanding High Availability Cluster and Architecture

Understand thearchitectecture of different kinds of cluster i.e. high performance, load balancing and high availability cluster in Red Hat Linux

Deepak Prasad4 min read
linux

Guide to troubleshoot Cluster Resource (RHEL / CentOS 7)

Configure high availability cluster, create cluster resource and troubleshoot cluster resource for a cluster on Red Hat / CentOS 7 with examples.

Deepak Prasad5 min read
devops

How to create cluster resource in HA Cluster (with examples)

Configure High Availability Cluster and configure cluster resource and add behind the cluster in CentOS and Red Hat 7 Linux using pcs resource create..

Deepak Prasad8 min read
linux

How to change tmpfs partition size in Linux ( RHEL / CentOS 7 )

Increase decrease, change tmpfs partition size in Red Hat Linux 7, /run /run/user/$PID /dev/shm /sys/fc/cgroup using fstab RuntimeDirectorySize logind.conf

Deepak Prasad5 min read
system-administration

How to set default boot kernel on Linux ( CentOS / RHEL 7 )

How to set default boot kernel in linux? Change the default boot entry for kernel ? Boot with old kernel version ? Revert to previous kernel version ?

Deepak Prasad3 min read
linux

How to install and configure two node cluster in Linux ( CentOS / RHEL 7 )

How to install configure two node cluster in linux on centos rhel 7 using vmware virtualbox corosync-quorumtool two_node wait_for_all auto_tie_breaker

Deepak Prasad5 min read
devops

How to configure HA LVM cluster resource to share LVM in Linux

How to configure HA LVM on CentOS / RHEL 7 Linux without GFS2. How can I configure cluster service or resource to activate and monitor shared LVM volumes?

Deepak Prasad7 min read
system-administration

How to delete iscsi target from initiator ( CentOS / RHEL 7 ) Linux

How to delete iscsi target? Remove inactive iscsi target? Remove iscsi storage target from initiator? Remove iscsi virtual disk on CentOS / RHEL 7 Linux.

Deepak Prasad3 min read
linux

How to disable tty or enable tty console in Linux ( RHEL / CentOS 7)

How to enable tty for more than 6 console. How to disable all the tty terminals in Linux. systemd disable tty. systemd enable tty using getty service in Linux.

Deepak Prasad3 min read
storage

How to boot Linux host from LVM snapshot using BOOM (CentOS/RHEL 8)

Step by Step guide to boot CentOS/RHEL 8 or 7.5 and higher Linux with LVM snapshot using BOOM. with examples. Merge LVM snapshot and delete boom profile later.

Deepak Prasad8 min read
networking

Step-by-Step Tutorial: Configure Master Slave DNS Server (RHEL/CentOS 7)

Steps to configure master slave dns server using bind chroot environment in RHEL/CentOS 7 Linux. Sample master dns server and slave dns server with examples.

Deepak Prasad9 min read
linux

Secure Master Slave DNS Server with DNSSEC key in Linux (RHEL/CentOS 7)

Steps to secure master slave dns server using various algorithm types to secure the data replication between master and slave dns server using dnssec key Linux

Deepak Prasad7 min read
linux

Register RHEL 7 host to RHN using subscription manager (with or without proxy)

Register RHEL 7 system to Red Hat Satellite Network using subscription manager. Attach pool, enable and disable repositories with or without proxy in RHSM.conf

Deepak Prasad6 min read
linux

Unregister RHEL 7 using Subscription Manager and Remove System Profile

Unregister RHEL 7 from Red Hat Network using subscription manager and remove system profile. subscription-manager unregister, clean to remove subscription data

Deepak Prasad3 min read
system-administration

8 ways to prevent brute force SSH attacks in Linux (CentOS/RHEL 7)

Prevent brute force SSH attacks in RHEL CentOS 7 with examples using Fail2ban, account lockout, SSH rate limit using iptables, sshd_config, SHA512 hashing

Deepak Prasad10 min read
linux

6 ssh authentication methods to secure connection (sshd_config)

Overview on different openssh authentication methods using sshd_config in RHEL/CentOS 7/8 Linux with Examples. Authenticate your sshd connection in Linux

Deepak Prasad7 min read
linux

How to install ARPACK in Linux?

Step by Step instructions to install ARPACK on RedHat, Arch and Debian based Linux distribution.

Omer Cakmak4 min read