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

Monday and Wedenesday 2-4 pm or 4-6 pm on Zoom. Zoom meeting ID and code on Blackboard

Textbook

1. Limoncelli T, Hogan C, Chalup S, The practice of system and network administration, latest edition
2. Nemeth E, Snyder G, Hein T, Whaley B, Unix and Linux System Administration, latest edition
3. 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 2-4 pm on Zoom. Zoom meeting ID and code on blackboard

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

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

1. Project A: Hadoop Cluster
2. 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

1. YouTube

Code

1. GitHub

Useful

• Wireshark for Systems Administration and Management
• PySNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol Library for Python)
• Cacti and SNMP services (Linux)

Calendar Spring 2020 (Subject to Change)