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All material covered in the lectures, labs, and required readings may appear on the exams.
Optional readings provide additional explanation of material covered in class that can be useful in preparing for the exams.
Papers are only accessible to hosts in the stonybrook.edu domain, although most are available elsewhere online.
| Date | Topics | Notes | Required Readings | Optional Readings |
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| Part 1: System Administration Overview | ||||
| Tue 01/28 | Administrative and Introduction |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | ||
| Thu 01/30 | Operating System Overview |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 1 | |
| Part 2: System Installation | ||||
| Tue 02/04 | Testing and Debugging Hardware |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | ||
| Thu 02/06 | OS Installation (Windows) |
Slides Printer Friendly Slides | ||
| Tue 02/11 | Hardware Assembly |
Meet in 2129 | ||
| Thu 02/13 | Snow day! |
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| Fri 02/14 | |
Lab 1 Due. 11:59PM. | ||
| Tue 02/18 | OS Installation (Linux) |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 12, pages 362--368, 382--383 | |
| Part 3: Network and Services Administration | ||||
| Thu 02/20 | Basic Network Organization |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 14, pp 447--493 | |
| Tue 02/25 | IP address assignment (DHCP) |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | ||
| Thu 02/27 | Resorce name assignment (DNS) |
Chapter 17, pp 552--625 | ||
| Tue 03/04 | User management (LDAP, AD) |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 19 | |
| Thu 03/06 | Network File Services |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 18, pp 690--710 | |
| Tue 03/11 | Email administration |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 20, pp 742--773. | |
| Part 4: Security | ||||
| Thu 03/13 | Overview |
Guest Lecture by Rob Johnson | Chapter 22, pp 896--905 | |
| Fri 03/14 | |
Lab 2 Due. 11:59PM | ||
| Tue 03/18 | Spring Recess, Class Canceled |
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| Thu 03/20 | Spring Recess, Class Canceled |
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| Tue 03/25 | Web server administration |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 23, pp 956--961, 971--979. | |
| Thu 03/27 | Midterm |
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| Tue 04/01 | Review midterm. |
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| Thu 04/03 | Security (1) |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 22, 906--931. | |
| Tue 04/08 | Security (2) |
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| Thu 04/10 | Review Day |
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| Part 5: Dealing with Disaster | ||||
| Tue 04/15 | Backups |
Guest Lecture by Ellen Liu Slides. Printer friendly slides. |
Chapter 10, pp 292--317 | |
| Thu 04/17 | Redundancy and Fail-over |
Lab 3 Due. 11:59PM. Guest Lecture by Erez Zadok. |
Chapter 8, pp 237--246. | |
| Tue 04/22 | Review Day |
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| Thu 04/24 | Network Firewalls |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 22, pp 932--943. | |
| Tue 04/29 | Logging |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 11 | |
| Part 6: Review and Synthesis | ||||
| Thu 05/01 | Access Control and Process Control |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 4 | |
| Tue 05/06 | Controlling Processes and the File System |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 5 | |
| Thu 05/08 | Performance Analysis |
Slides. Printer friendly slides. | Chapter 29 | |
| Fri 05/09 | |
Lab 4 Due. 11:59PM | ||
| Wed 05/14 | Final Exam |
5:30 pm - 8:00pm. Light Engineering 102. | ||
Copyright Notice: These lecture notes, homeworks, and lab assignments are part of an undergraduate course on systems administration. You must ask me permission to use these materials. I do not grant to you the right to publish these materials for profit in any form.
Donald Porter, Stony Brook University
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