| Day | Date | Topic | Readings |
| Mon | Jan 16 | Introduction: What does a sysadmin do? | ULSAH 1; PSNA Preface, 1 |
| Wed | Jan 18 | Desktops, servers, and services | PSNA 3-5; ULSAH 27 |
| Fri | Jan 20 | LAB 1: OS Installation, Desktop and Unix Commands | ULSAH 2portions, 12portions |
| Mon | Jan 23 |
Finish Desktops, servers, and
services System Startup and Shutdown |
ULSAH 3 |
| Wed | Jan 25 | Finish Booting; Printing | ULSAH 26; PSNA 24 |
| Fri | Jan 27 | LAB 2: RPM; Printing; Bash; nVidia | USLAH 2portions |
| Mon | Jan 30 | Disks, partitions, and filesystems | ULSAH 6, 8 |
| Wed | Feb 1 | Finish Filesystems | |
| Fri | Feb 3 |
LAB 3:
Disks, partitions and filesystems |
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| Mon | Feb 6 | Accounts | ULSAH 4, 7 |
| Wed | Feb 8 | NO CLASS - (Prof. Davison at WSDM Conference) | |
| Fri | Feb 10 | LAB 4: More partitioning and filesystems, creating accounts, cron (Prof. Davison at WSDM Conference) | ULSAH 4,6,7,8 |
| Mon | Feb 13 | Processes | ULSAH 5, 9; PSNA 25; |
| Wed | Feb 15 | Monitoring and Logging | ULSAH 11; PSNA 22, 27portions; |
| Fri | Feb 17 | LAB 5: Logging, intro to Perl | |
| Mon | Feb 20 | HOURLY EXAM 1 | |
| Wed | Feb 22 | The Domain Name System | ULSAH 17; (RHEL Manual for BIND) |
| Fri | Feb 24 | LAB 6: DNS and wireshark | |
| Mon | Feb 27 |
Namespaces
Networking |
PSNA 8;
ULSAH 14 |
| Wed | Feb 29 | Finish Networking | |
| Fri | Mar 2 | LAB 7: Networking, Apache, CGI scripting | ULSAH 23; PSNA 29; |
| Mon | Mar 5 | NO CLASS - Spring Break | |
| Wed | Mar 7 | NO CLASS - Spring Break | |
| Fri | Mar 9 | NO CLASS - Spring Break | |
| Mon | Mar 12 |
Network Architecture
Debugging, Fix Once |
ULSAH 16, 21; PSNA 21, 7, 27 PSNA 15, 16; ULSAH 21portions, 32portions |
| Wed | Mar 14 |
NFS Finish Fix Once |
ULSAH 18 |
| Fri | Mar 16 | LAB 8: NFS and Automounting | |
| Mon | Mar 19 |
Electronic Mail Daemons |
ULSAH 20; PSNA 23 |
| Wed | Mar 21 | Finish Daemons; Installation and maintenance | ULSAH 12; PSNA 17-20, 28 |
| Thu | Mar 22 | (HPC Symposium at Lehigh) | |
| Fri | Mar 23 | LAB 9: Postfix and Squid (HPC Symposium at Lehigh) | ULSAH 20, 23portions |
| Mon | Mar 26 | Finish Installation and maintenance; Supporting multiple platforms | ULSAH 30 |
| Wed | Mar 28 |
Data Centers Disaster Recovery |
ULSAH 27; PSNA 6; Microsoft Chicago Data Center ULSAH 32.8; PSNA 10; |
| Fri | Mar 30 | LAB 10: Kernel modules, AFS | ULSAH 13; |
| Mon | Apr 2 | HOURLY EXAM 2 | |
| Wed | Apr 4 | Sharing System Files | ULSAH 19 |
| Fri | Apr 6 | LAB 11: Firewalls and NAT | ULSAH 14portions, 22portions; |
| Mon | Apr 9 | Virtualization | ULSAH 24 |
| Wed | Apr 11 | Ethics | ULSAH 32.7, 32.9-32.11; PSNA 12 |
| Fri | Apr 13 | LAB 12: NIS | |
| Mon | Apr 16 | NO CLASS - (Prof. Davison at WWW Conference) | |
| Wed | Apr 18 |
Machine Room Tours from
EWFM Computing Center 180 (Prof. Davison at WWW Conference) |
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| Fri | Apr 20 |
LAB 13: Subversion (Prof. Davison at WWW Conference) |
ULSAH 12portions |
| Mon | Apr 23 | Backups | ULSAH 10; PSNA 26 |
| Wed | Apr 25 | Finish Backups; Discussion | |
| Fri | Apr 27 | LAB 14: Backups | |
| Fri | May 4, 8-11am | FINAL EXAM, Packard 360 | |