| Day | Date | Topic | Readings |
| Mon | Aug 25 |
Introduction: What does a sysadmin
do? LAB 1: Using Linux and the shell |
ULSAH 1, 2portions; PSNA Preface, 1 |
| Wed | Aug 27 | Desktops, servers, and services | PSNA 3-5; ULSAH 27 |
| Fri | Aug 29 |
Finish Desktops, servers, and
services System Startup and Shutdown |
ULSAH 3 |
| Mon | Sep 1 | LAB 2: OS Installation; Printing | ULSAH 2portions, 12portions |
| Wed | Sep 3 | Finish Booting | |
| Fri | Sep 5 |
Printing; Disks, partitions, and filesystems |
ULSAH 26; PSNA 24; ULSAH 6, 8 |
| Mon | Sep 8 | LAB 3: Startup; RPM; Bash | USLAH 2portions |
| Wed | Sep 10 | Continue with Filesystems | |
| Fri | Sep 12 |
Finish Filesystems Processes |
ULSAH 5, 9; PSNA 25; |
| Mon | Sep 15 |
LAB 4:
Disks, partitions and filesystems |
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| Wed | Sep 17 |
Finish Proceses; Accounts |
ULSAH 4, 7 |
| Fri | Sep 19 |
Finish Accounts Monitoring and Logging |
ULSAH 11; PSNA 22, 27portions; |
| Mon | Sep 22 | LAB 5: Creating accounts, cron, sudo, logging and Perl | ULSAH 4,6,7,8 |
| Wed | Sep 24 |
Finish Monitoring and Logging The Domain Name System (DNS) |
ULSAH 17; (RHEL Manual for BIND) |
| Fri | Sep 26 | HOURLY EXAM 1 (Prof. Davison in California.) | |
| Mon | Sep 29 | LAB 6: DNS and wireshark | |
| Wed | Oct 1 |
Finish DNS Namespaces Start Networking |
PSNA 8;
ULSAH 14 |
| Fri | Oct 3 | Continue Networking | |
| Mon | Oct 6 |
NO CLASS - Pacing Break |
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| Wed | Oct 8 |
Review exam Finish Networking Network Architecture |
ULSAH 16, 21; PSNA 21, 7, 27 |
| Fri | Oct 10 |
Finish Network Architecture Debugging, Fix Once |
PSNA 15, 16; ULSAH 21portions, 32portions |
| Mon | Oct 13 | LAB 7: Networking, Apache, CGI scripting | ULSAH 23; PSNA 29; |
| Wed | Oct 15 |
NFS Electronic Mail |
ULSAH 18
ULSAH 20; PSNA 23 |
| Fri | Oct 17 |
Finish Electronic Mail Daemons |
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| Mon | Oct 20 | LAB 8: NFS and Automounting | |
| Wed | Oct 22 | Installation and maintenance |
ULSAH 12; PSNA 17-20, 28 |
| Fri | Oct 24 |
Supporting multiple platforms Data Centers |
ULSAH 30 ULSAH 27; PSNA 6; Microsoft Chicago Data Center |
| Mon | Oct 27 | LAB 9: Postfix and Squid | ULSAH 20, 23portions |
| Wed | Oct 29 |
Finish Data Centers Disaster Recovery |
ULSAH 32.8; PSNA 10; |
| Fri | Oct 31 | Machine Room Tours from EWFM Computing Center 180 | |
| Mon | Nov 3 | LAB 10: Kernel modules, AFS | ULSAH 13; |
| Wed | Nov 5 | Sharing System Files | ULSAH 19 |
| Fri | Nov 7 | HOURLY EXAM 2 | |
| Mon | Nov 10 | LAB 11: Firewalls and NAT | ULSAH 14portions, 22portions; |
| Wed | Nov 12 | Virtualization | ULSAH 24 |
| Fri | Nov 14 | Backups | ULSAH 10; PSNA 26 |
| Mon | Nov 17 | LAB 12: NIS | |
| Wed | Nov 19 | Continue Backups | |
| Fri | Nov 21 | No class for Lehigh-Lafayette; note how many (managed) computer systems you see. | |
| Mon | Nov 24 |
LAB 13: Subversion |
ULSAH 12portions |
| Wed | Nov 26 |
NO CLASS - Thanksgiving Break
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| Fri | Nov 28 | NO CLASS - Thanksgiving Break | |
| Mon | Dec 1 | LAB 14: Backups | |
| Wed | Dec 3 | Finish Backups; Ethics | ULSAH 32.7, 32.9-32.11; PSNA 12 |
| Fri | Dec 5 | Evaluation; Discussion | |
| Sat | Dec 13 | FINAL EXAM, 7-10pm, PL360 | |