Lectures
February 9 - Introduction
- Content:
- Syllabus
- What is a System Administrator
- Basics of networking and file tree
- Materials:
- Extra reading:
February 16 - Storage and Backup
- Content:
- Storage
- RAID
- LVM
- Backup
- Material:
- slides
- RAID Levels
- Chapter 25 pg 583-588, 25.1.3.3 "Backups", 25.1.4 "Performance"
- Chapter 26 pg 619-633
- Extra reading:
- LTO
- Wikipedia - RAID
- [ PSNA ] - Chapter 25, Chapter 26
March 1 - Processing Power, Bandwidth
- Content:
- Processing Power
- Bandwidth
- About Course Project
- Material:
- slides
- [ PSNA ] - Chapter 5.1 pg 101-102
- RHEL 4 - Introduction to System Administration: Bandwidth and Processing Power
- Extra reading:
March 8 - Software
- Test!
- Content
- updates
- package management
- licenses
- Material:
- slides
- lecture recording
- Categories of Free and Non-Free Software
- [ PSNA ] - Chapter 28 pg 667-672
Chapter 3 pg 54-57 "Updating System Software and Applications"
- Extra reading:
- [ PSNA ] - Chapter 28
- Ian Murdock - How package management changed everything
March 15 - Virtualization
- Content:
- virtualization
- platform virtualization
- cpu virtualization
- resource virtualization
- paravirtualization
- full virtualization
- virtualization
- Material:
- slides
- [ PSNA ] - Chapter 21 pg 506-507 "Server virtualization"
- Wikipedia - Hardware virtualization
- Extra reading:
March 22 - Change Management
March 29 - Risk Management
April 5 - Documentation
Test next week, 12.04.2012!
April 12 - Test
No new topics this time!
April 19 - Maintenance and Monitoring
No test results yet! Next week?
- Content:
- Maintenance
- Monitoring
- Material:
April 26 - Incident and Problem Management, Service Desk
No test results yet! Next week!!!
- Content:
- Incident management
- Service desk
- Problem management
- Material:
- slides
- ITIL Incident Management
- [ PSNA ] - Chapter 13 pg 343-356
- [ PSNA ] - Chapter 14 pg 363-380
- [ PSNA ] - Chapter 15 pg 391-399
- Extra reading:
- 8 Steps to Better Incident Classification
- [ PSNA ] - Chapters 13,14,15
May 3 - Test! Failover and clustering strategies
- Small test on maintenance, monitoring, incident management and service desk.
- Failover and clustering strategies.
- Material:
May 10, 17, 24 - Course project presentations!
Also, students can re-take any of the tests during presentations.
May 31 - Course project presentations in room 404!
Also, students can re-take any of the tests during presentations.