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 4-6 pm

Textbooks I have used (Not Required)

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

Instructor

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

Office Hours

241 Anderson

VMs

Linux:

• Seed Ubuntu

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

Recommendations on Sources and Cyber products

1. Recommendations

Useful

Example problems will be provided as required. 

We will use the following software and hardware:

1. VMWare Workstation 
2. SEED Ubuntu pre-built Virtual Machine
3. Python 
4. How to create the SEED VM
5. Video on how to create the SEED vm using VMware
6. Wireshark for Systems Administration and Management
7. Cacti and SNMP services (Linux)
8. Install SEED VM on VirtualBox
9. If Errors, Install SEED VM on Virtual Box
10. NAT network between 2 VMs on Virtual Box

FAQ and Common Errors

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

1. I can't find a name for the NAT Network
2. UUID Error setting up SEED on Virtual Box

Calendar Spring 2024 (Subject to Change)