Courses

ITS 37200 - Systems Administration and Management

Topics include: Linux workstations, servers, Linux services, data centers, disaster recovery, security policy, distributed system administration and monitoring, helpdesks, file system analysis, system performance gathering and analysis, debugging, upgrades, namespaces and user account management, Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP), system maintenance management, email and printing services, system backup, remote access, IT support, scripting with Python on Linux

Required course.

Time & Place

Tuesday and Thursday 2-4 pm

Textbook

Limoncelli T, Hogan C, Chalup S, The practice of system and network administration, latest edition
Nemeth E, Snyder G, Hein T, Whaley B, Unix and Linux System Administration, latest edition
Noah Gift and Jeremy M. Jones, Python for Unix and Linux System Administration, latest edition

Instructor

Ricardo A. Calix, Ph.D.
Purdue University Northwest
rcalix@pnw.edu

Office Hours

241 Anderson

On-Line Office Hours

Thursday 4-6 pm

VMs

Linux:

Seed Ubuntu
Ubuntu 16.04 VM VM (download) for you to use. The VM user is PWRS and the password is: P@ssw0rd
Ubuntu 18.04 VM (download)

Renting an AWS instance

If you rent an instance and to later connect via ssh, you will need a .pem file provided to you by AWS
Commands
Instances
Setting up an AWS instance

Projects

Project A: Hadoop Cluster
Project B: Select a topic in systems administration such as a service or scripting technique (you will need to present it and demo using your Linux VM machine server)

Videos

YouTube

Code

GitHub

Useful

Example problems will be provided as required.

We will use the following software and hardware:

VMWare Workstation
SEED Ubuntu pre-built Virtual Machine
Python
How to create the SEED VM
Video on how to create the SEED vm using VMware
Wireshark for Systems Administration and Management
Cacti and SNMP services (Linux)
Install SEED VM on VirtualBox
NAT network between 2 VMs on Virtual Box

Calendar Spring 2022 (Subject to Change)

Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
Jan 9	Jan 10	Jan 11 What do Systems Administrators (SA) do? video	Jan 12	Jan 13 Linux Basics and intro to scripting video	Jan 14	Jan 15
Jan 16	Jan 17	Jan 18 Scripting for System Administration with Python video	Jan 19	Jan 20 Subprocess and socket modules video	Jan 21	Jan 22
Jan 23	Jan 24	Jan 25 The UNIX way video	Jan 26	Jan 27 Catch-up, services, scripting video	Jan 28	Jan 29
Jan 30	Jan 31	Feb 1 Scripting Examples, Crontab and task scheduling video	Feb 2	Feb 3 tcpdump, cron, logging scripts, and redirection video	Feb 4	Feb 5
Feb 6	Feb 7	Feb 8 UNIX Misc topics, and grep and awk video	Feb 9	Feb 10 Grep and Awk, find commands Open Lab: work on Cron lab video	Feb 11	Feb 12
Feb 13	Feb 14	Feb 15 Exam 1	Feb 16	Feb 17 User Account Mgmt video	Feb 18	Feb 19
Feb 20	Feb 21	Feb 22 DNS, BIND video	Feb 23	Feb 24 Catch-Up Lab	Feb 25	Feb 26
Feb 27	Feb 28	Mar 1 Linux cluster and parallel computing, MapReduce and Hadoop video	Mar 2	Mar 3 DNS Attacks Lab video	Mar 4	Mar 5
Mar 6	Mar 7	Mar 8 parallel scripting demo (simple map reduce) video	Mar 9	Mar 10 Term Project NAT network Virtual Box video	Mar 11	Mar 12
Mar 13	Mar 14	Mar 15	Mar 16	Mar 17	Mar 18	Mar 19
Mar 20	Mar 21	Mar 22 SNMP video	Mar 23	Mar 24 Open lab: SNMP	Mar 25	Mar 26
Mar 27	Mar 28	Mar 29 SNMP video	Mar 30	Mar 31 Work on SNMP lab	Apr 1	Apr 2
Apr 3	Apr 4	Apr 5 Security and UNIX host firewalls video	Apr 6	Apr 7 Firewalls Lab	Apr 8	Apr 9
Apr 10	Apr 11	Apr 12 Exam 2	Apr 13	Apr 14 Scripting for pdf, tar, http, case aurora (geo locate) video	Apr 15	Apr 16
Apr 17	Apr 18	Apr 19 File system, and file system analysis (slides) video Docker	Apr 20	Apr 21 Work on Project	Apr 22	Apr 23
Apr 24	Apr 25	Apr 26 Project Presentations	Apr 27	Apr 28 Project Presentations	Apr 29	Apr 30
May 1	May 2 Finals	May 3 Finals	May 4 Finals	May 5 Finals	May 6 Finals	May 7