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 4-6 pm
Ricardo A. Calix, Ph.D.
Purdue University Northwest
rcalix@pnw.edu
241 Anderson
Linux:
Renting an AWS instance
Example problems will be provided as required.
We will use the following software and hardware:
Enable Nested VT-x/AMD-V Issue: Enables nested virtualization, with passthrough of hardware virtualization functions to the guest VM. This feature is available on host systems that use an AMD CPU. For Intel CPUs, the option is grayed out.
Other Issues
Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
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Jan 7 | Jan 8 |
Jan 9 What do Systems Administrators (SA) do?video |
Jan 10 |
Jan 11 Linux Basics and intro to scripting |
Jan 12 | Jan 13 |
Jan 14 |
Jan 15 |
Jan 16 Scripting for System Administration with Python |
Jan 17 |
Jan 18 Subprocess and socket modules |
Jan 19 | Jan 20 |
Jan 21 |
Jan 22 |
Jan 23 The UNIX way |
Jan 24 |
Jan 25 Catch-up, services, scripting |
Jan 26 | Jan 27 |
Jan 28 |
Jan 29 |
Jan 30 Scripting Examples, Crontab and task scheduling |
Jan 31 |
Feb 1 tcpdump, cron, logging scripts, and redirection |
Feb 2 | Feb 3 |
Feb 4 |
Feb 5 |
Feb 6 UNIX Misc topics, and grep and awk |
Feb 7 |
Feb 8 Grep and Awk, find commands Open Lab: work on Cron lab |
Feb 9 | Feb 10 |
Feb 11 |
Feb 12 |
Feb 13 Exam 1 |
Feb 14 |
Feb 15 User Account Mgmt |
Feb 16 | Feb 17 |
Feb 18 |
Feb 19 |
Feb 20 DNS, BIND |
Feb 21 |
Feb 22 Catch-Up Lab |
Feb 23 | Feb 24 |
Feb 25 |
Feb 26 |
Feb 27 Linux cluster and parallel computing, MapReduce and Hadoop |
Feb 28 |
Feb 29 DNS Attacks Lab |
Mar 1 | Mar 2 |
Mar 3 |
Mar 4 |
Mar 5 parallel scripting demo (simple map reduce) |
Mar 6 |
Mar 7 Term Project NAT network Virtual Box |
Mar 8 | Mar 9 |
Mar 10 | Mar 11 | Mar 12 | Mar 13 | Mar 14 | Mar 15 | Mar 16 |
Mar 17 |
Mar 18 |
Mar 19 SNMP |
Mar 20 |
Mar 21 Open lab: SNMP |
Mar 22 | Mar 23 |
Mar 24 |
Mar 25 |
Mar 26 SNMP |
Mar 27 |
Mar 28 Work on SNMP lab |
Mar 29 | Mar 30 |
Mar 31 |
Apr 1 |
Apr 2 Security and UNIX host firewalls |
Apr 3 |
Apr 4 Firewalls Lab |
Apr 5 | Apr 6 |
Apr 7 |
Apr 8 |
Apr 9 Exam 2 |
Apr 10 |
Apr 11 Scripting for pdf, tar, http, case aurora (geo locate) |
Apr 12 | Apr 13 |
Apr 14 | Apr 15 |
Apr 16 File system, and file system analysis (slides) Docker |
Apr 17 |
Apr 18 Work on Project |
Apr 19 | Apr 20 |
Apr 21 | Apr 22 |
Apr 23 Project Presentations |
Apr 24 |
Apr 25 Project Presentations |
Apr 26 | Apr 27 |
Apr 28 | Apr 29 Finals |
Apr 30 Finals |
May 1 Finals |
May 2 Finals |
May 3 Finals |
May 4 |