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.
Tuesday and Thursday 2-4 pm
Ricardo A. Calix, Ph.D.
Purdue University Northwest
rcalix@pnw.edu
241 Anderson
Thursday 4-6 pm
Linux:
Renting an AWS instance
Example problems will be provided as required.
We will use the following software and hardware:
Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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Jan 9 | Jan 10 |
Jan 11 What do Systems Administrators (SA) do?video |
Jan 12 |
Jan 13 Linux Basics and intro to scripting |
Jan 14 | Jan 15 |
Jan 16 |
Jan 17 |
Jan 18 Scripting for System Administration with Python |
Jan 19 |
Jan 20 Subprocess and socket modules |
Jan 21 | Jan 22 |
Jan 23 |
Jan 24 |
Jan 25 The UNIX way |
Jan 26 |
Jan 27 Catch-up, services, scripting |
Jan 28 | Jan 29 |
Jan 30 |
Jan 31 |
Feb 1 Scripting Examples, Crontab and task scheduling |
Feb 2 |
Feb 3 tcpdump, cron, logging scripts, and redirection |
Feb 4 | Feb 5 |
Feb 6 |
Feb 7 |
Feb 8 UNIX Misc topics, and grep and awk |
Feb 9 |
Feb 10 Grep and Awk, find commands Open Lab: work on Cron lab |
Feb 11 | Feb 12 |
Feb 13 |
Feb 14 |
Feb 15 Exam 1 |
Feb 16 |
Feb 17 User Account Mgmt |
Feb 18 | Feb 19 |
Feb 20 |
Feb 21 |
Feb 22 DNS, BIND |
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 |
Mar 2 |
Mar 3 DNS Attacks Lab |
Mar 4 | Mar 5 |
Mar 6 |
Mar 7 |
Mar 8 parallel scripting demo (simple map reduce) |
Mar 9 |
Mar 10 Term Project NAT network Virtual Box |
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 |
Mar 23 |
Mar 24 Open lab: SNMP |
Mar 25 | Mar 26 |
Mar 27 |
Mar 28 |
Mar 29 SNMP |
Mar 30 |
Mar 31 Work on SNMP lab |
Apr 1 | Apr 2 |
Apr 3 |
Apr 4 |
Apr 5 Security and UNIX host firewalls |
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) |
Apr 15 | Apr 16 |
Apr 17 | Apr 18 |
Apr 19 File system, and file system analysis (slides) 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 |