Computer Science 182
System Administration
Syllabus, Spring 1997
Professor: Mike Erlinger
Office: Olin 249
Phone: x18912
E-mail: mike@cs.hmc.edu
Meeting Times: Monday & Wednesday 4:15-5:30 PM
Meeting Place: Beckman 105
Graders::
Secretary: Nancy Mandala, Olin 240, 621-8225, (Part-Time: 1-5pm)
Texts
UNIX System Administration Handbook,
Revised Edition,
by
Eve Nemeth, et.al.,
Prentice Hall,
ISBN 0-13-151051-7.
Other Texts
The Whole Internet, Second Edition,
E. Krol,
O'Reilly.
Essential System Administration,
Allen Frisch,
O'Reilly.
What Is This Course About?
In recent years the area of
System Administration
has begun to attain the status of a focused area
in computer science.
This course will consist of lectures on general
system administration topics,
individual projects,
and group projects in system administration.
Issues such as operating system installation,
disk configuration, user management,
software subsystem management
(e.g., mail, news, dns),
operating policies,
system performance issues,
security, and documentation will be investigated.
This course assumes the material in cs110 and cs124.
Approach
The class will be divided into a series of teams
with each team being responsible for a system.
Each team will then install and administer
one of the UNIX variants,
adding various subsystems throughout the
semester.
Lectures will cover various system administration topics,
with the course being more hands-on than the usual lecture
course.
Each team will make a series of presentations,
one on their basic system installation
and others on
particular
subsystems.
Individual projects will consist of
small sysadmin projects
and a research paper
with
a presentation.
Requirements and Grades
Grades will be based on both individual and team performance.
The course members will be the primary graders.
Collaboration Policy
Obviously, this course encourages collaboration.
Since it is a project oriented course (no tests)
I expect that members of each group will
contribute to the various group activities
and at the end of the semester groups will
evaluate themselves.
List of Topics
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Introduction, Course Disection
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Installation of UNIX
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Disk Formatting, SCSI
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Network Overview -
Technologies, Bridges, Routers, TCP/IP,
IP addressing, Subnets
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Project 1 Presentations
Last modified January 17, 1997 by mike@cs.hmc.edu