Linux Ops Rescue Kit
When production is down, you don’t need another Linux tutorial. You need a runbook.
Linux Ops Rescue Kit is an on-call troubleshooting toolkit designed for Linux system engineers, production operations teams, SREs and N3 support engineers working with Red Hat Enterprise Linux environments.
It helps you move quickly from a vague symptom to the failing layer, collect the right evidence, apply the safest recovery path and verify that the incident is actually resolved.
30 real-world production incidents covering:
• Emergency mode and boot failures
• Kernel and initramfs/dracut issues
• LVM, XFS, filesystems and disk problems
• SAN, Multipath and WWID troubleshooting
• NetworkManager, routing and multi-NIC issues
• DNS and connectivity failures
• SSH, SELinux, sudo, SSSD/IdM and Kerberos
• DNF/YUM, certificates, proxy and repositories
• Leapp upgrade inhibitors
• CPU, memory, swap and I/O performance issues
• Slow boot and systemd troubleshooting
Every incident follows an operational workflow:
Symptom → 60-second triage → Evidence → Failure layer → Diagnosis → Safest fix → Verification → Rollback → Stop & Escalate
Choose your edition
STANDARD — Essential Runbook
Complete 72-page runbook with 30 real-world incidents, symptom index, realistic Linux commands and outputs, failure-layer troubleshooting, safe recovery guidance and verification steps.
PRO — Advanced On-Call Toolkit — Recommended
Everything in STANDARD, plus:
• 5 advanced N3 cross-domain scenarios
• 4 read-only diagnostic scripts
• First 10 Minutes incident checklist
• Standalone Linux command cheat sheet
• Storage mapping and WWID helper
• Network route diagnostic helper
• Performance snapshot helper
Built for real operations
Designed for on-call rotations • production incidents • MCO / operations • N3 support • troubleshooting • migrations • incident response
Triage fast. Prove the cause. Recover safely.
The procedures are especially relevant to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9 and 10 and technologies such as systemd, NetworkManager, LVM, XFS, Device Mapper Multipath, SSSD, Kerberos and Leapp.
Linux Ops Rescue Kit is an independent technical guide and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Red Hat. Red Hat and Red Hat Enterprise Linux are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc.