I've reached out to sales a couple of times in the last month and haven't gotten a call back. I tried calling and leaving my name/number and also filled out the contact form on the website.

I haven't heard a thing.

I have RHEL9 OS stuck at boot screen after a reboot. Sometime I am able to boot into OS successfully sometime I am not able to do it and it just stuck at boot screen. I tried disabling some service and test reboot but it didn't work out.

Is there any logs I could look into? tried dmesg but didn't seems to give me much info..

Thanks!

hi, anyone that taken this exam and any materials you may share. I plan to take the exam earliest next year. any idea is well appreciate

Hi guys!

I’ve never used RHEL, but wanted to spin it up and daily drive it on my laptop. Created the boot.iso, installed it on my hard drive, rebooted and nothing happened.

In my laptops bios, in the system settings, it can see a hard drive, it can see the hard drive on the install .iso system.

When I installed the new system, it must have overwritten the previous windows UEFI section on the HDD.

I don’t have windows install media. I have the boot.iso from RHEL. Is there official documentation that can walk me through fixing this?

Troubleshooting so far:

Every single combination of boot/secure boot.

Will note: when this first happened, there was a list of legacy drives, then I reset the list because the hdd wasn’t showing up in that list, and now no matter the setting there is no list of legacy anything.

I have a Red Hat Developer license and an Ansible Automation Platform running in my home lab, which includes 16 RHEL machines. On the Subscription page, it shows I’m out of compliance because the 'hosts automated' count exceeds 16.

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The extra hosts are from servers that were deleted from the inventory long ago, yet they still seem to count toward the automated host total. Is it the case that every server AAP has ever connected to continues to count, even if it was deleted over a year ago?

I haven’t found a way to reset the automated host count or clear these old records. Any ideas?

Anyone that can help with creating a secure route for an application? I thought the task in the exam was kind of different from how l learned it in the course. If anyone has a good example of how it should be done on the exam that would be really helpful.

I have a question does anyone one know if when you create a content-view version on a Satellite if that version takes up disk space? More specifically when creating exports and imports. I am wondering if I should continue to keep those versions or begin deleting older ones.

Hey There! I am in desperate need of a voucher code (discount code) to take my Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) exam (EX200K) I have to drive about 7hrs so I am trying to save on gas as much as I can. Can anyone assist?

I would greatly appreciate it!

Hi Everyone,

I need to start prepping for a RHCSA and i was wondering what material you guys (Anyone currently prepping for v9) have used for the current exam? There is a lot of information floating out there over the Net, but i wonder if there is any structured material/course that is focused on RHCSA v9.

I don't have a budget to pay for official bootcamps from Red Hat, but i do have Udemy, ACloudGuru accounts, but seems like have outdated content. If someone used these platform or others to pass the exam recently, it would give the newbie like me some hope to start on the right path.

All suggestions are highly welcome.

I have installed RHEL on a old laptop. The installation worked fine amd everything else I wanted to install went smoothly. But, when trying to spin up a virtual machine using VirtualBox I get an error message (rc1908). On doing some Google search I found that disabling secure boot should fix the issue. I tried it and I am still getting the error. Any advice or suggestion will be greatly appreciated.

Hi, Is there a way to generate the offline token(the one that expires in 30 days if not used) other than the UI?

Thanks,

Possible to recreate red hat’s learning lab?

Did a red hat course for RHCSA and was given a 40day lab to practice with the guided exercise and labs on the students workbook , the lab is about to expire , does anyone know if we can recreate this set of lab using VMs ourselves so we can continue practicing the guided exercises in the workbook? Or the only way is to pay for red hat learning sub.

I am trying to log into the https://sso.redhat.com/ and it prompts me to enter the recovery code specifically #1, I do as I'm told screen clears the box and nothing..... Can anyone point me to where I need to go or where to find info so I can fix this? It wouldn't be an issue but this account is my head chief of IT... me. I need eventually for audit and admin purposes keeping everything consistent in our company. In the mean time I'll just start a different account because I need this installed 2 days ago. I have a computer with nothing, just maybe shadow fragments of my agro journal vents that could only come after having to read the arch forums.

Thanks and looking forward to convincing the rest of our company this is the way we are going to go. There is only one other person that makes up our company -the owner. LOL buuuut its my dad. Thanks to windows adding rhel officially for wsl you wouldn't think it would be too difficult.

Looking to get started learning linux/ansible, etc.

For red hat, I've been googling ways to download and install the server os.

I've came across https://developers.redhat.com/home which looks promising. Is it better to install on a bare metal machine to use as a server, or spin up in a vm on my windows desktop?

I'm also getting a mini PC soon to load up proxmox on. Would that be an option with redhat?

Hi, i have problem in load balancing approach the requests from (3) controller nodes to the (3) automation hub nodes,
I want to know how to make HAproxy load balance the internal traffic between them.

I took the RHCSA yesterday and passed the exam.The result came within 2-3 hours after the exam.I studied with a Redhat certified training institute for 2 months and did self preparation for 15days and i passed. The Institute charged me about 120USD for training and they also helped me buy the exam for about 220USD. I am from INDIA and this cost is converted from INR to USD so its easier to understand for everyone. The best way to prepare is to do a lot of practice of the exam questions. You can find these question sets if you search and 90% of them are exactly same as the exam. Buy the exam beforehand so you can use their lab environment its very helpful to get accustomed to the exam VMs and working.

Hi everyone,

I just wanted to share a quick update—today I passed the RHCSA exam with a perfect score.

The exam is 3 hours long, but I managed to finish it in 1 hour and 15 minutes. My main advice for anyone preparing:

•	Do as many labs as you can—practice really is the key.

•	If possible, take the official Red Hat courses. 

I have about 2.5 months of experience with Red Hat—mostly with Ansible while working for a client. Balancing work and study wasn’t easy, but the effort definitely paid off. If you have any questions for this certification or need advice, feel free to ask!

The rulebook:

- name: Listen for events on a webhook
hosts: all
# Define our source for events
sources:
- ansible.eda.webhook:
host: 0.0.0.0
port: 5000
# Define the conditions we are looking for
rules:
- name: Demo rule
condition: event.meta["headers"]["Os"] == "linux"
action:
run_job_template:
name: Ansible-Windows-Template
organization: default
job_args:
extra_vars:
payload: "{{ event.payload.data }}"

The template playbook:

---
- name: Check Connectivity and Report on Windows Hosts
hosts: G_WIN
gather_facts: false
tasks:
- name: 00 - Display payload from the rulebook
ansible.builtin.debug:
msg: "Payload from the rulebook: {{ payload }}"
delegate_to: localhost

Error message:

{
"msg": "The task includes an option with an undefined variable. The error was: 'payload' is undefined. 'payload' is undefined\n\nThe error appears to be in '/runner/project/win.yml': line 6, column 7, but may\nbe elsewhere in the file depending on the exact syntax problem.\n\nThe offending line appears to be:\n\n tasks:\n - name: 00 - Display payload from the rulebook\n ^ here\n",
"_ansible_no_log": false
}

Reference document: variables
AAP Version: 2.5
Any help would be appreciated :-)

Can i take EX480 before taking or passing EX280 ?

Hi

I have reiceved a new DELL server where I must install a RHEL for veeam immutability. When I powered ON the server I realized that it came with a preinstalled RHEL on it and after the initial boot it loads the start config console for start up the RHEL. At that console I can define the regional languange, config network interfaces, set a root password, create a user, etc

However I cant manage the partitions cause there is no option to do it...

So I have skipped that part and proceeded with the start up... however when it ended, I have check that the server has a graphical UI ¨(which is not recommended) and also the partitions have not the proper sizes.

Im trying to follow this tutorial: https://www.veeam.com/blog/install-disa-stig-red-hat-veeam-repository.html

And I need to reinstall the server OS. So in order to do that I have downloaded a RHEL 9.5 ISO and loaded it on the iDRAC of the server.

After booting the server again it starts loading the "Anaconda" interface but at some point I get an error which indicates that I cant load the graphical inteface and I have to use "command line" or use VNC.

I cant use VNC cause Im connecting on remote by VPN and the firewall is denying the vnc connection. So is there anyway to load the graphical start up without using VNC?

thanks

Hi

Im configuring an RHEL for linux immutable purpose.

On the Red hat startup config I have to first create a bond with the ethernet nics.

The server (a physical one) has 4 total available ethernet NICS:

• 2 of 10Gpbs

• 2 of 1Gbps

Initially I was planing to create a Bond with the 10G ports and thats all... But in order to provide better HA I think that adding the 1Gbps ports could also be useful.

So the idea is to add all the ports to the same Bond but only use the 10Gbps ports by default and use the 1Gbps in case of no availability of the 10Gbps ports. This would be the order:

• 1st - 10Gbps port 1
• 2nd - 10Gbps port 2
• 3rd - 1Gbps port 1
• 4rd - 1Gbps port 2

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Is it enought to add the ports on that order on the bond creation to achieve that purpose or by mixing them it eventualy use any of the ports in any order?

Thanks in advance

I got the interview for Associate Software Engineer—Ansible at Red Hat India. The first round is HR for 15 minutes. I would love to know your experience or what I should expect and how I should prepare. What does Red Hat look for in a candidate? Or is it like other FAANGs based on DSA and system design?

About me: I'm a recent grad, with a lot of open source contributions (maintainer of CNCF project) and with 3 remote US-based internships

In this video, you will find some valid information about logs used by Red Hat Satellite, also, some tips about troubleshooting and Satellite health.

I hope you enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR-U-i5wbx8

I am currently finishing my RH124 course and just received a mail from RedHat saying that i received 50% discount for PE124 Preliminary Exam. I don't really understand the difference between RH124 and PE124. What is PE124? I planned on taking RH134 after i finish RH124, but now I am not sure is it worth to first go for PE124.

Hi,

actually I'm using a backup script (written in python3, I started years ago) that uses rsync to save file and the use of hardlink with rsync --link-dest option. This script run a first full backup and in the other run if file is not changed rsync create the the hardlink else it download the changed file. Each backup is versioned. During several years I added logging, mail notification, simple prune policy, integrity check, host configuration, restore command, backup info, quota, remote pre/post job script, localscript and metadata check (catalogs, manifest...). It does not have encryption natively but I'm using gocryptfs (FUSE) and for compression I'm using ZFS that is not supported by RHEL and derivatives (except using zfs with dkms). I'm using since several years and it does its work very well. It uses as agent ssh + rsync that is also available on Windows with ssh + rsync client for windows.

I chose the rsync for simplicity. I like its approach because it has very simple storage format (well, files are saved individually as they are) and in case of big problems with the server I can mount disks to another machine and simply restore files, plus I'm not dependent from software vendor (like ticketing issue solving ecc). It is not so much efficient per se but using ZFS or btrfs things get better. Plus is I need to store them offsite on another server or service (s3 compatible) I can upload only changes and not big-file-archive but only what is changed.

Actually I'm backing up several server and several workstations and with file level deduplication (the hardlink part) I'm saving a ton of space and with ZFS compression another 10% ( I expected more but this is. Don't known really if enabling deduplication is a good thing) probably block deduplication is more efficient but this is enough for me. Data volume is not so big, the biggest dataset has ~1tb of data (small and big files) and file number is ~800k. Not an huge dataset but it works very well with my python script.

In the past when I decided what use I considered borgbackup, restic and bacula. Well, I was using bacula but it was very complex for that specific env, maybe good on complex and big enterprise env, good for backup on tape but it is really complex. (Note also BareOS was considered but it is the same as bacula). I like borgbackup, it is an amazing software but it does not run pull backup only push and one of my requirements was central backup server that pull data from server and not viceversa. The same was for restic. In the end choose rsync+ssh+python and I'm happy with it.

What software do you use for backup (I mean production not home) your server?

Just genuinally curious about how other runs their backup. Hope in a constructive post.

Thank you in advance

New to tech, new to Linux, but just finished my Linux for Jobs course at Yellowtail Tech and I’m ready to book my RHCSA cert exam. Would any recent cert holders share a discount code for the RHCSA ex200?

Can I get RHCSA certification without any prerequests?