MTAT.08.021 System Administration (6 ECTS)
2013 Autumn
Grades
Lectures(L), Liivi 2-111:
Mondays 10:15-12:00 - Artjom Lind
Lab(P) Sessions, Liivi 2-123:
Group 1: Mondays 14:15-16:00 - Artjom Lind
Group 2: Tuesdays 12:15-14:00 - Dmitri Danilov
Group 4: Tuesdays 16:15-18:00 - Kristjan Krips
Group 3: Wednesdays 10:15-12:00 - Dmitri Danilov
Group 5: Thursdays 10:15-12:00 - Dmitri Danilov
Announces:
- 02.09.2013 There will be no lectures neither labs during the first week!
- 02.09.2013 The Lab 6 will most probably disappear during the first week!
- 16.09.2013 The certificate requests from last week will be sent during this week (hopefully today). I will announce you about it anyway over the e-mail
- 16.09.2013 The VPN Manuals (for Linux/Windows/MacOS) according to new CA certificate we use in lab. The links will be disabled until we update the manual. If you happened to download existing ones, these are from last year and we will change them
- 17.09.2013 The HW001 Deadline is the same as lab evaluation deadline - one week before first examination.
- 15.10.2013 The OpenVPN server is up
- Manuals will be published here in Home Machine Configuration Manuals section
- 15.10.2013 The FTP server is up
- Manual is published here in Accessing the class 123 personal data from home section.
- Deadline for the labs is 15th of Dec at 23:59
Discussion Board:
- Critical messages will be announced personally over UT mail
- (by UT mail we mean addresses in @ut.ee domain).
- Course general discussion will be announced over course lists
Course grading
- Labs give 30% of the final grade
- Lab tasks have to be 100% solved in order to be allowed for the examination
- Exam gives 70% of the final grade
- Bonus points are collected in addition to lab and examination points.
- It is possible to obtain more than 100% of a total grade.
- Course is graded positively if you collect at least 51% of total points
Lectures
Lectures are given in English. Attending lectures is optional, however visiting lectures is the easiest way to get points by solving bonus tasks and answering lecturers questions.
- The bonus tasks will be announced only during the lectures!
- Non additional specification will be shared
All the lectures will be recorded and shared online.
Lab sessions
The labs will be taught in English.
During the labs, you will set up common services like mail server, web server, file server, or a monitoring system using the Linux operating system. Labs are obligatory to pass 100%. Grading occurs automatically in real-time. Each lab has a set of tasks critical to fulfill (mainly configure the services mentioned above). The automatic system checks the correctness and validity and grades the students. The grading table is private and unique for each student, as it is requires personal certificate to access the corresponding web page (further information will be announced). The lab assistant is always there to:
- Announce the lab topic
- Have overview-talk about the lab topic
- Show the Best-Practices in respect to lab topic
- Answer question about the lab material/configuration
- Announce correct solutions for the most difficult tasks
- Tasks difficulty is estimated by overall performance of the group
Lab Access
Accessing the lab machines requires personal lab account, which will be activated for everybody during the first lab. Hence visiting the first lab is critical to obtain the lab account. Once lab account is obtained, it can be used to access any machine in the lab. Account contains 50Gb of personal space. This space is meant for storing the lab instances as well as the backups (by lab instance we mean a snapshot of individual Linux installation students suppose to configure during the labs).
Remote Access
There is a possibility to solve the lab tasks outside of the class facility using your personal machines. Remote access requires:
- Additional software installed in personal machines:
- <will be announced>
- Personal Certificate <further information will be announced> to access the class network
- Lab account to access your personal data over the network
Courses from the previous years