| Day | Date | Topic | Required Readings | Recommended |
| Mon | Jan 25 | NO CLASS - Lehigh closed for snow |
Syllabus | |
| Wed | Jan 27 | Introduction: What does a sysadmin
do? LAB 1: Using Linux and the shell |
ULSAH 1, 2.1 | PSNA Preface, 1 |
| Fri | Jan 29 | MOVED to Mohler 375: Desktops, servers, and services | ULSAH 27; | PSNA 3-5 |
| Mon | Feb 1 | Finish Servers and Services; System Startup and Shutdown | ULSAH 3 | |
| Wed | Feb 3 | LAB 2: OS Installation; Printing | ULSAH 2.1-2.3, 2.6, 12.1 | |
| Fri | Feb 5 | Finish Startup and Shutdown; Processes | ULSAH 5, 9 | PSNA 25 |
| Mon | Feb 8 | Finish Processes; Disks, partitions, and filesystems | ULSAH 6, 8 | PSNA 24 |
| Wed | Feb 10 | LAB 3: Startup; RPM; signals; logging and cron | USLAH 12.5-12.7 | |
| Fri | Feb 12 |
Printing (read on your own) NO CLASS - Prof. Davison in New York City. |
ULSAH 26 | |
| Mon | Feb 15 | Finish Disks | ||
| Wed | Feb 17 |
LAB 4:
Disks, partitions and filesystems |
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| Fri | Feb 19 | Accounts | ULSAH 4, 7 | |
| Mon | Feb 22 |
Data Centers (read on your own) NO CLASS - Prof. Davison in California |
ULSAH 27 |
PSNA 6; Microsoft Chicago Data Center;
Google 360 Data Center Tour (best on a mobile device) |
| Wed | Feb 24 |
LTS Machine Room Tours from
EWFM Computing Center 180
(Prof. Davison in California) |
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| Fri | Feb 26 |
Monitoring and Logging (read on your own) NO CLASS - Prof. Davison in California |
ULSAH 11, PCSA 16-17 | PSNA 22, 27portions; |
| Mon | Feb 29 | Finish Accounts; Namespaces | PSNA 8 | |
| Wed | Mar 2 | LAB 5: Creating accounts, sudo, Perl, and wireshark | ULSAH 2.4,4,6,7,8 | |
| Fri | Mar 4 | HOURLY EXAM 1 | ||
| Mon | Mar 7 | The Domain Name System (DNS) | ULSAH 17; | RHEL Manual for BIND |
| Wed | Mar 9 | LAB 6: DNS, Networking, Apache, CGI scripting | ULSAH 23 | PSNA 29 |
| Fri | Mar 11 | Networking | ULSAH 14 | |
| Mon | Mar 14 |
NO CLASS - Spring Break |
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| Wed | Mar 16 |
NO CLASS - Spring Break |
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| Fri | Mar 18 | NO CLASS - Spring Break | ||
| Mon | Mar 21 | NFS | ULSAH 18 | |
| Wed | Mar 23 | LAB 7: NFS and Automounting | ||
| Fri | Mar 25 | Finish Networking; Review Exam | ||
| Mon | Mar 28 | Electronic Mail | ULSAH 20; | PSNA 23; |
| Wed | Mar 30 | LAB 8: Postfix and Squid | ULSAH 20, 23.5 | |
| Fri | Apr 1 |
Network Architecture (read on your own) NO CLASS - Attend Data X Seminar |
ULSAH 16, 21 | PSNA 7, 27 |
| Mon | Apr 4 | Daemons, Installation and maintenance | ULSAH 12, PCSA 11-12 | PSNA 17-20, 28 |
| Wed | Apr 6 | LAB 9: Kernel modules, AFS | ULSAH 13; | |
| Fri | Apr 8 | Guest Lecturer: Steve Anthony (LTS) on SALT | PCSA 10, 12 | |
| Mon | Apr 11 | Finish installation; Debugging, Fix Once; Sharing System Files | ULSAH 19 | PSNA 15, 16 |
| Wed | Apr 13 | LAB 10: Firewalls and NAT | ULSAH 14, 22 | |
| Fri | Apr 15 | HOURLY EXAM 2 | ||
| Mon | Apr 18 | Finish debugging; Virtualization | ULSAH 24 | |
| Wed | Apr 20 | LAB 11: NIS | ||
| Fri | Apr 22 | Guest Lecturer: Will Frece (Morgan Stanley) on Virtualization | ||
| Mon | Apr 25 | Supporting multiple platforms; Disaster Recovery | ULSAH 30; ULSAH 32.8; PCSA 15 | PSNA 10 |
| Wed | Apr 27 |
LAB 12: Subversion |
ULSAH 12.9 | |
| Fri | Apr 29 | Backups: In Mohler 375 | ULSAH 10 | PSNA 26 |
| Mon | May 2 | Finish Backups; Ethics | ULSAH 32.7, 32.9-32.11 | PSNA 12 |
| Wed | May 4 | LAB 13: Backups | ||
| Fri | May 6 | Finish Ethics; Evaluation; Discussion | ||
| Tue | May 17 8-11am | FINAL EXAM - Neville 2 | ||